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born 1957
Barolong Seboni (born 27 April 1957) is a Motswana poet and academic. Born in Kanye Botswana, he received his BA from the University of Botswana and his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin.
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Literature is the highest form of civilization.
When you write a poem, you are not writing to say I want to “disturb the peace.” You are saying, ‘This is wrong.
I love my beautiful black people
I love my black people
Botswana is that place that is not out of the norm in terms of what Africa is, but a place that has the greatest potential to show the world that Africa is possible.
We are not a new democracy, and we are not an old democracy. We are medium rare because we are getting there— we are getting to well done.
I wrote this for all African people- All African people struggling with identity, post-colonialism, colonialism, after effects of slavery
We are medium rare because we are getting there- we are getting to well done. It’s a struggle…we makes mistakes. On the whole, I think we are on the right track.
Do not be afraid of criticism, and for goodness sake, you are not a writer if you are just sitting in your bedroom and just writing page after page after page. You are only a writer when other people say you are a writer.
All poets speak for the silent majority- for the illiterate, for those who cannot write, for those who cannot speak, and for political, social, or even just any other isms
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