Mongane Wally Serote – 50 years after the Soweto Uprising

SAVE THE DATE: NOV 1, 3-6 PM 50 years after the Soweto Uprising, City of Asylum/Detroit is honored to welcome South Africa’s Poet Laureate Mongane Wally Serote. Mongane Wally Serote is an award-winning writer with numerous books of poetry and fiction, including Yakhal’inkomo (1972), No Baby Must Weep (1975), To Every Birth Its Blood (1981), Third World Express (1992), History Is the Home Address (2004), and Revelations (2011). Serote was a core voice of the Black Consciousness movement in the 1970s, serving as an anti-apartheid activist and writer before spending years in exile working with the African National Congress. Join City of Asylum/Detroit at the Shepherd Detroit for an intimate reading by Serote, followed by a conversation with Dr. Richard Benson, the inaugural Director of the Detroit Center for Black Studies.