Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali's volume of poetry Sounds of a Cowhide Drum, published in 1971, gave the original impetus to what became known as "New Black Poetry," or Soweto poetry, during the 1970s in Sou...
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Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali burst onto the South African literary scene with the publication of Sounds of a Cowhide Drum: Poems in 1971. The book went into six impressions, sold more than thirteen thous...
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Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali