KUNENE, (Raymond) Mazisi (biography)
KUNENE, Is South African He was Born in 12th May 1930 In Durban
KUNENE, The Poet
he Written The Poet (Emperor Shaka the Great) in 1979 it was 453 Pages
He was married to
Mathabo Kunene
with whom he had four children. They got married in
1973
.
Kunene returned to South Africa in 1992, where he taught at the University of Natal until his retirement.
UNESCO made him Africa's poet laureate in 1993 and in 2005 he became South Africa's first poet laureate.
Kunene died aged 76 on 11 August 2006 in Durban, after a lengthy bout of cancer.
On 12 May 2022, which would have been Kunene's 92nd birthday, he was commemorated with a Google Doodle.