Who was Mazisi Kunene? Why Google Doodle celebrate his birthday?

Today’s Google is dedicated to anti-apartheid campaigner Mazisi Kunene, who would have turned 92 today.

The Doodle depicts Mazisi going about his work, for which he rose to prominence as a role in the anti-apartheid movement in his native South Africa. We take a closer look at who he was in this section.

Mazisi Kunene was a poet and anti-apartheid activist from South Africa.

He wrote about the Zulu culture in his work.

He’s from Durban, South Africa’s third largest city, and at the age of 11 he was contributing poetry and short tales to his local newspaper.

His postgraduate thesis at university examined the dilution of Zulu culture in Western literature, and by the time apartheid broke out in South Africa, he was in a position to employ what he had learned thus far to fight the terrible division.

When he fled to the United Kingdom in 1959, the South African authorities banished him.

He returned to South Africa once apartheid ended, where he resumed his writing in Zulu and was named Poet Laureate in 1993.

The Mazisi Kunene Foundation Trust continues to aid Africa’s future generation of literary professionals.

Mazisi Kunene died in his birthplace of Durban in 2006.

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