Azanian Love Song
- ISBN-10
- 0992187567
- ISBN-13
- 9780992187569
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-12-29
- Publisher
- African Perspectives Publishing
- Author
- Don Mattera
Description
Donato Francesco Mattera has been celebrated as a journalist, editor, writer and poet. He is also acknowledged as one of the foremost activists in the struggle for a democratic South Africa, and helped to found both the Union of Black Journalists, the African Writer's Association and the Congress of South African Writers. Born in 1935 in Western Native Township (now Westbury) across the road from Sophiatown, Mattera can lay claim to an intriguingly diverse lineage: his paternal grandfather was Italian, and he has Tswana, Khoi-Khoi and Xhosa blood in his veins.
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