Keorapetse Kgositsile

Keorapetse Kgositsile was born September 19th. 1938 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Between the 1960's and 1970's he played an influential role in the African National Congress and made extensive progress in African-American literature. Kgositsile was exiled to the US (reasons unknown) between the years of 1962-1970, and he reached his peak of his literary career. During his time in the US he married twice both ending in divorce and each wife having one separate child. Thebe Kgositsile later became a rapper inspired by his friends in LA and inspired by his father's (Keorapetse) poems, even though Keorapetse left his children at a their young age. Later in his life he received well deserved awards for his deep writings about missing his son and the unjust system of apartheid.

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