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    Isabella Motadinyane: Complete Poems
    Isabella Motadinyane: Complete Poems
    Isabella Motadinyane: Complete Poems
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    Isabella Motadinyane: Complete Poems

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    Isabella Motadinyane was born in 1963 in Mofolo Central, Soweto, and died on her fortieth birthday in 2003 in Orange Farm. She used English, Isicamtho and Sesotho to create a powerful legacy of performance, poetry, and song. Her collected work - just over 30 poems - was published as Bella in 2007 by Botsotso Publishing, and is republished in this Deep South edition with some new translations from the Sesotho.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeep South
    Release dateDec 29, 2016
    ISBN9781928476238
    Isabella Motadinyane: Complete Poems
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    Isabella Motadinyane

    Isabella Motadinyane was born in 1963 in Mofolo Central, Soweto, and died on her fortieth birthday in 2003 in Orange Farm. She used English, Isicamtho and Sesotho to create a powerful legacy of performance, poetry, and song. Her collected work - just over 30 poems - was published as Bella in 2007 by Botsotso Publishing, and is republished in this Deep South edition with some new translations from the Sesotho.

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