Keorapetse Kgositsile played a significant role in the emergence of post-1994 poetry

Remembering the man writers and non-writers alike called Bra Willie was now a literary ancestor.

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

The post has become firmly entrenched but times have changed, suggesting new directions and ideas

Jazz and the fight for freedom were central to his life and poetry

The poet’s biographer on how he brought together the African and diasporic traditions of resistance and art

​Kgositsile’s first interview after he returned to South Africa in 1990