The poet fought injustice wherever he found it and became a key figure in the ANC-in-exile’s arts and culture department

Harry Garuba wrote his first collection of poems in 1982. It’s taken him 35 years to do a second

Paul Beatty touches on key issues but writes in such a way that he doesn’t have to speak for black people

The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo.

Writer and activist Amiri Baraka – also known as LeRoi Jones – was born on October 7 1934 and died on January 9 2014.