Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation

A unique anthology containing over five decades of protest poetry.

'i may have been born on 27 April 1994 - but i was never born free.' Mjiele Msimang

Contemporary poet Mjiele Msimang captures something of today's zeitgeist in his poem 'born(e) to the grave.' But what of the past half-century of protest poetry in South Africa, a rich tradition born in response to colonialism, and fed by apartheid and a faltering democracy?

In Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation, over f...