Tatamkhulu Afrika
Ismail Joubert, commonly known as Tatamkhulu Afrika, which is Xhosa for Grandfather Africa, was a South African poet and writer. His first novel, Broken Earth was published when he was seventeen, but it was over fifty years until his next publication, a collection of verse entitled Nine Lives. Tatamkhulu Afrika, South African poet and author (d. 2002)
7 December 1920
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