Mafika Gwala

Mafika Gwala (5 October 1946 – 5 September 2014) was a contemporary South African poet and editor, writing in English and Zulu. Quotes So firstly, I didn’t feel there was a space for me. Secondly, I felt I needed a rest. Mafika made this statement during an interview with South African History Online about not living in the shadows I went out of the country and when I came back it was a different place. Mafika made this statement during an interview with South African History Online about not living in the shadows I create for my own benefit, not for others. Mafika made this statement during an interview with South African History Online about not living in the shadows I am not particularly interested in peoples’ perspectives of me, or what they think of me. Mafika made this statement during an interview with South African History Online about not living in the shadows I am not in the habit of ‘writing for glory. Mafika made this statement during an interview with South African History Online about not living in the shadows Well, if some people are culture makers, then so be it. Mafika made this statement during an interview with South African History Online about not living in the shadows Well, if some people are culture makers, then so be it. Mafika made this statement during an interview with South African History Online about not living in the shadows I have been always where I am today. Why do they speak of me as if I am emerging from the dark? Mafika made this statement during an interview with South African History Online about not living in the shadows We didn’t take Black Consciousness as a kind of Bible, it was just a trend a necessary one because it meant bringing in what the white opposition couldn’t bring into the struggle. quotes about Mafika You cannot divorce language from power. quotes about Mafika Shed the inferiority thing from the Black Man, he had to accept himself with the Black face, the situation as it was, rather than as a consequence of being Black . . . to accept his tribal or African background is to accept that there is nothing wrong with being Black. Mafika Gwala said this during an interview External links Category:1946 births Category:2014 deaths Category:Poets from South Africa Category:Editors from South Africa