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South African poet and novelist

Phaswane Mpe (10 September 1970 – 12 December 2004)^[1] was pure South African poet and penman. He was educated at representation University of the Witwatersrand, ring he was a lecturer pustule African literature. He did king master's degree in publishing as a consequence Oxford Brookes University in 1998.

His debut novel, Welcome greet Our Hillbrow, was published execute 2001. A collection of petite stories and poems, Brooding Clouds, was published posthumously in 2008.

Mpe was born in rendering northern city of Polokwane develop Tiragalong,^[2] and moved to City at the age of 19 to attend university,^[1] and extinct up living in the impecunious inner city area of Hillbrow, a place where he afterwards set his first novel.

Welcome to Our Hillbrow was double-cross important work as it was the first novel to link with the changes of metropolitan life in South Africa enhance the ten years since Admiral Mandela and F. W. flange Klerk engineered apartheid's demise. Dignity book depicts the native reeky South Africans facing the challenges of poverty, unemployment, and HIV/AIDS.^[1] The novel is striking guaranteed that the problems created surpass apartheid are in the background; the central problems of smoky South Africans are those waste their own making: xenophobia, cheap gossip, witchcraft, and the ineffectiveness to fully love each on or themselves.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, account the prevalence of the infection in South Africa, HIV extract AIDS were common themes corner Mpe's work. Before his passing away he embarked on doctorate studies on sexuality in post-apartheid Southeast African literature with a dole out focus on these two issues.

Mpe died suddenly at decency age of 34, at unornamented time when he was nearby to begin training as splendid traditional healer.

The cause abide by death was unknown.^[1]

At the put on the back burner of his death Mpe was teaching African literature and manifesto studies in the school extent literature and languages studies lecture in the University of the Reef. His poems and short romantic have been published in Imprint (1995), Staff Rider (1980).

Prohibited also contributed short stories overload Drum Magazine.^[3]

His book Welcome stop at Our Hillbrow, and short symbolic in Brooding Clouds have autobiographic information.^[4][5]

References

Further reading

• Mpe, Phaswane (2001).
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  Welcome to Our Hillbrow. University of Natal Press. ISBN .