Image Number: APN154139
Title: Miriama Ba
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Miriama Ba. Born 1929 Senegal. Obtained teaching diploma 1947. Later joined Senegalese Regional Inspectorate of teaching. 1980 received Norma. Prize for first novel'Une Si Longue Lettre'. Died 1981.
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Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: square
Pixel Size: 2898 x 2894
Media Id: 57_411
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Germany, Frankfurt, , Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, square, novelist, writer, sitting, three quarters view, 1980, 1980s, Senegalese, black African woman, traditional dress, Mariama Ba, ,
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Image Number: APN154141
Title: Djamila Olivessi
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Djamila Olivessi. A Moroccan poet who lived in Paris. Died in early '90s.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2387 x 3514
Media Id: 57_405
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Portraits of African Writers series, 1980s, black and white image, vertical, 1983, portraits, writers, Paris, France, poet, Moroccan, standing, low angle view, smoking, phoning, talking, Djamila Olivessi, ,
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Image Number: APN154142
Title: African Writers
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: At the African Writers' Conference hosted by the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3530 x 2377
Media Id: 57_493
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Portraits of African Writers series, writers, African people, portrait, African writers, African Writer's Conference, Germany, Frankfurt, horizontal, groups, sitting, table, 1980, 1980s, ,
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Image Number: APN154143
Title: Es'kia Mphahlela
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Es'kia Mphahlela. At Writer's Conference, University of Pretoria. b. 1919. Literary editor of Drum magazine till forced into exile in 1957. In 1969 nominated for Nobel Prize for Literature. Works include'Father Come Home','Afrika My Music' and 'Chirundu'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3475 x 2414
Media Id: 57_424
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, South African, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, 2002, 2000s, black African men, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, African Writer's Conference, editors, Drum Magazine, novelist, Nobel Prize nominee, side view, talking, gesturing, lectern, laughing, ,
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Image Number: APN154144
Title: Malcolm Purkey
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Malcolm Purkey. Was Head of Dramatic Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. Then appointed Artistic Director of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg.Playwright. Works include'Fantastical History of a Useless Man, 'Tooth and Nail' and 'Sophiatown'. Awards include Fulbright, Breytencbach Epathlon, and English Academy Awards.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: square
Pixel Size: 2896 x 2896
Media Id: 57_483
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: standing, playwright, drama, archways, doorways, South African, square, black and white image, Portraits of African Writers series, Paris, France, writer, portrait, facing camera, 1993, 1990s, white African man, ,
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Image Number: APN154146
Title: Jonny Steinberg
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Jonny Steinberg. A journalist and writer based in Johannesburg. Author of 'Midlands' and 'The Number' both of which have won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2397 x 3500
Media Id: 57_451
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Cape Town, Western Cape, Portraits of African Writers series, 2005, 2000s, portrait, writer, journalist, South African, facing camera, casual, Jonny Steinberg, ,
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Image Number: APN154147
Title: Cyprian Ekwensi
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Cyprian Ekwensi. Nigerian novelist, born 1921.Wrote short stories, radio and television scripts and novels, including 'People of the City' and 'Jagua Nana'. 1968 received Dag Hammarskjold International Prize in Literature. 2006 became a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. Died in 2007.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2910 x 2883
Media Id: 57_415
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Cyprian Ekwensi, Frankfurt, listening, black African man, head and torso, novelist, square, writer, Germany, facing camera, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, 1980, 1980s, ,
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Image Number: APN154148
Title: Jann Turner
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Jann Turner. At a TRC hearing.b. 1964. Studied at Oxford University in UK.Award winning film-maker and journalist.Spent two years covering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for SABC TV's Special Report. Works include 'Heartland' and 'Southern Cross'
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2402 x 3493
Media Id: 57_478
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Western Cape, Cape Town, black and white image, facing camera, vertical, Africa, South Africa, 1998, 1990s, portrait, Portraits of African Writers series, writer, South Africans, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, TRC, journalist, hands folded, film-maker, White African woman, Jann Turner, ,
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Image Number: APN154149
Title: Nuruddin Farah and Chinua Achebe
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Nuruddin Farah and Chinua Achebe. Berlin African Writers' conference. Discussion group.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3461 x 2423
Media Id: 57_435
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Chinua Achebe, Germany, Berlin, Europe, African Writer's Conference, authors, writers, 1979, 1970s, discussion, groups, Nuruddin Farah, Portraits of African Writers series, ,
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Image Number: APN154150
Title: Zoe Wicomb
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Zoe Wicomb. b. 1948, Namaqualand.Writer. Attended the University of the Western Cape. Lives in Scotland where she teaches creative writing and post-colonial literature at the University of Strathclyde. Works include'You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town','Playing in the Light' and 'The One That Got Away'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2903 x 2889
Media Id: 57_402
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, Paris, France, South African, academic, creative writing, poster, standing, casual, 1993, 1990s, Zoe Wicomb, square, ,
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Image Number: APN154151
Title: Nawal El Saadawi
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Nawal El Saadawi. b1931. Egyptian novelist,psychiatrist, lecturer and writer. Has written many books on the plight of women in Islam. Awards include International Writer of the Year 2003. Books (written in Arabic) include 'Memoirs of a Woman Doctor', 'The death of the Only Man on Earth', 'Love in the Kingdom of Oil'. She has also written plays and short stories
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2419 x 3468
Media Id: 57_458
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: standing, Egyptians, doorways, three quarters view, vertical, black and white image, psychiatrists, lecturers, USA, novelist, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, woman, Nawal El Saadawi, 1980s, 1983, ,
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Image Number: APN154152
Title: John Kani and Lisa Combrinck
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: John Kani and Lisa Combrinck. At Writer's Conference, University of Pretoria. John Kani b 1943 New Brighton South Africa. Actor, director and playwright. Works include'Nothing But the Truth' and (co-authored) 'Sizwe Banzi is Dead'.Lisa Combrink. BA (Hons) Eng Lit from University of Cape Town. Chair of the Literature Panel of the National Arts Council of South Africa. Poet.Works include'An Infinite Longing for Love: A Collection of Poetry'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3452 x 2430
Media Id: 57_502
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Portraits of African Writers series, black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, writers, portraits, Writer's Conference, 2002, 2000s, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, discussion, , actors, directors, playwright, poet, gesturing, John Kani, Lisa Combrink, ,
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Image Number: APN154153
Title: Wole Soyinka
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Wole Soyinka. Berlin African Writers' conference.. B.1934 Nigeria. Writer, poet, playwright. Awarded Nobel prize for literature in 1986 - first African laureate of Nobel prize.BA from University of Leeds, UK. Hon. PhD university of Leeds. Overseas Fellow Churchill College Cambridge. Author of, amongst others, 'Ake', 'The Interpreters' and the plays 'The Road' and 'Death of the King's Horseman'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: Germany
Pixel Size: 2907 x 2886
Media Id: 57_412
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Portraits of African Writers series, Europe, Germany, Berlin, black and white image, Wole Soyinka, square, African Writer's Conference, author, poet, playwright, black African man, portrait, head and shoulders, three quarters view, Nigerians, 1979, 1970s, ,
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Image Number: APN154155
Title: Chinua Achebe
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Chinua Achebe. At Madiba's (Nelson Mandela's) cell on Robben Island.Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. B. 1930. Works include 'Things Fall Apart' Anthills of the Savannah' (Man Booker finalist) and 'Man of the People.2007 Man Booker International Prize
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2390 x 3509
Media Id: 57_452
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Western Cape, Chinua Achebe, black and white image, Nigerians, vertical, Africa, South Africa, portrait, Portraits of African Writers series, 2002, 2000s, Robben Island, Cape Town, writer, cells, Nelson Mandela, groups, wheelchair, prison bars, novelist, critics, poet, ,
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Image Number: APN154156
Title: Amadou Kourouma
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Amadou Kourouma. Berlin African Writers' conference.. Ivorian writer b.1927. Spent time in Mali, France, Algeria and Cameroon; part of this time in exile.His books include 'The Suns of Independence', 'Pending the Vote of Wild Beasts' (awarded the Prix du Livre Inter) and several children's books. d.2003.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: Cameroon/Cameroun
Pixel Size: 2868 x 2926
Media Id: 57_428
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Portraits of African Writers series, African Writer's Conference, novelist, author, black and white image, African writers, square, portrait, sitting, facing camera, Berlin, Germany, Amadou Kourouma, Ivorians, 1979, 1970s, Europe, black African man, ,
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Image Number: APN154157
Title: Christopher Hope
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Christopher Hope. b.1944, Johannesburg, South Africa. Educated at Universities of Witwatersrand and KwaZulu Natal and worked as journalist. Moved to London, 1985. Broadcaster, reviewer, playwright,poet, novelist.Works include'A Separate Development', 'Kruger's Alp', 'White Boy Running' and 'My Mother's Lovers'. Awards include the Whitbread Novel Award and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3387 x 2477
Media Id: 57_471
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, playwright, England, London, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, journalist, 1984, 1980s, writer, author, poet, novelist, white African man, South African, sitting, casual, bookshelves, three quarters view, Christopher Hope, ,
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Image Number: APN154158
Title: Williams Sassine
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Williams Sassine. Born 1944 Guinea.Wrote in FrenchFled to France 1961 -6 from Sekuo Toure's regime. On return wrote four novels,amongst which is'Le Jeune Homme de Sable' taught maths and became a headmaster.Became chief editor of satirical newspaper 'Le Lynx' Died in 1996
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2905 x 2888
Media Id: 57_431
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, square, head and torso, facing camera, Frankfurt, Germany, writer, novelist, French, Williams Sassine, Guinean, 1980, 1980s, ,
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Image Number: APN154160
Title: Henrietta Rose-Innes
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Henrietta Rose-Innes. In Newlands Forest.b. 1971. Novelist. Works include'Shark's Egg' (nominated for the M-Net Book Prize) and'The Rock Alphabet'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2378 x 3527
Media Id: 57_508
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, South African, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, Cape Town, Western Cape, 2005, 2000s, novelist, Newlands, Newlands Forest, standing, casual, trees, waterfalls, White African woman, Henrietta Rose-Innes, ,
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Image Number: APN154161
Title: Hamilton Wende
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Hamilton Wende. b.in the USA but grew up and educated in South Africa where he lives. A freelance writer and television producer.He has covered fifteen different wars in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Works include 'True North: African Roads Less Travelled','The Quagga's Secret' (Children) and 'The King's Shilling'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3522 x 2381
Media Id: 57_420
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, Cape Town, Western Cape, Portraits of African Writers series, 2005, 2000s, portrait, writer, novelist, non-fiction, leaning, cannons, casual, serious, producers, television, Hamilton Wende, ,
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Image Number: APN154162
Title: Mongo Beti and Chinua Achebe
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Mongo Beti and Chinua Achebe. Berlin African Writers' conference.. Mongo Beti (1932 - 2001) Cameroonian author who lived for 32 years in France. Books included'The Poor Christ of Bomba' and'Remember Reuben'.Died 2001.Chinua Achebe - Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. B. 1930. Attended University of Ibadan BA. Became a teacher, then joined NBS. Works include'Things Fall Apart' Anthills of the Savannah' (a Man Booker finalist) and 'Man of the People'.2007 Man Booker International Prize
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: square
Pixel Size: 2894 x 2899
Media Id: 57_436
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Germany, Berlin, black African people, African writers, African Writer's Conference, black African men, Portraits of African Writers series, groups, black and white image, black and white, square, 1979, 1970s, authors, sitting, Chinua Achebe, Mongo Beti, ,
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Image Number: APN154163
Title: Sandile Dikeni and Keorapetse Kgositsile
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: At Writer's Conference, University of Pretoria. Sandile Dikeni.b 1966 Victoria West South Africa. Journalist and poet.Works include 'Guava Juice' and 'Telegraph to the Sky'. Keorapetsi Kgotsitsile left South Africa in 1961 as instructed by ANC leadership. Poet and academic. Works include 'If I Could Sing','My Name is Afrika' and 'To the Bitter End'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3460 x 2425
Media Id: 57_448
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, 2002, 2000s, black African men, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, African Writer's Conference, journalist, poet, academic, discussion, laughing, side view, listening, South Africans, Sandile Dikeni , Keorapetse Kgotsitsile, ,
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Image Number: APN154165
Title: Primrose Mrwebi and Finuala Dowling
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Primrose Mrwebi is a poet.Finuala Dowling b.Capetown South Africa 1962.Educational materials developer novelist, poet and lecturer. Works include 'I Flying' (Ingrid Jonker Prize) and What Poets Need'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3499 x 2398
Media Id: 57_505
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, Cape Town, Western Cape, 2005, 2000s, poet, novelist, academic, sitting, talking, smiling, facing each other, Finuala Dowling, Primrose Mrwebe, ,
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Image Number: APN154166
Title: Mtutuzeli Matshoba
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Mtutuzeli Matshoba. b.1950 Soweto South AfricaStudied at Fort Hare University. Writer of short stories, film scripts and novels.Works include 'Call me Not a Man'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2861 x 2931
Media Id: 57_497
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, South African, square, Portraits of African Writers series, Paris, France, writer, portrait, novelist, doorways, archways, facing camera, smoking, smiling, 1993, 1990s, Mtutuzeli Matshoba, black African man, ,
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Image Number: APN154167
Title: Don Mattera and Chinua Achebe
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Don Mattera b. 1935, Western Native Township South Africa.Journalist,playwright, poet and author. Works include'Gone with the Twilight: A Story of Sophiatown' and 'The Storyteller'.Chinua Achebe.Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. B. 1930. Works include 'Things Fall Apart' Anthills of the Savannah' (Man Booker finalist) and'Man of the People.2007 Man Booker International Prize
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3521 x 2382
Media Id: 57_416
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Western Cape, black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, portrait, Portraits of African Writers series, 2002, 2000s, Robben Island, Cape Town, writer, discussion, journalist, playwright, poet, author, novelist, sitting, side view, Don Mattera, Chinua Achebe, South African, Nigerians, black African people, ,
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Image Number: APN154168
Title: Karen Press
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Karen Press. Cape Town 1956. Poet, translator, children's writer, text-book writer.Works include'This Winter Coming','Bird Heart Stoning the Sea' and'Home'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2392 x 3506
Media Id: 57_421
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South Africa, Africa, vertical, Karen Press, black and white image, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, 2005, 2000s, Cape Town, Western Cape, Sea Point, poet, children's books, translator, textbooks, facing camera, smiling, sitting, relaxed, White African woman, South African, ,
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Image Number: APN154169
Title: Buchi Emecheta
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Buchi Emecheta. b.1944 in Lagos, Nigeria. Moved to London in 1960 and became a student at London University, later becoming a social worker. A prolific African novelist and writer of children's books. Books include 'The Rape of Shavi', 'Gwendolen' and 'Head Above Water' (autobiographical). Has also written a play for television.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: Nigeria
Pixel Size: 2864 x 2928
Media Id: 57_410
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: England, London, black and white image, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, square, writer, author, 1979, 1970s, black African woman, sitting, facing camera, smiling, Nigerians, novelist, children's books, ,
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Image Number: APN154170
Title: Sindiwe Magona
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Sindiwe Magona. b.in Eastern Cape.Political activist,author, poet, playwright, story-teller. Works in clude 'To My Children's Children','Forced to Grow' and'Mother to Mother'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3489 x 2405
Media Id: 57_422
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South Africa, Africa, horizontal, black and white image, black African woman, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, 2005, 2000s, Cape Town, Western Cape, political activists, author, poet, playwright, story teller, standing, side view, talking, audience, clasping hands, classrooms, Sindiwe Magona, Pinelands, South African, ,
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Image Number: APN154171
Title: Lindiwe Mabuza with Hugh Robertson
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Lindiwe Mabuza with Hugh Robertson. 1938 Newcastle, South Africa. Writer and poet. Began her career as a teacher. Later became Assistant Professor of Literature and History at Ohio University in USA.She represented the ANC in Scandinavia and the US. Became South African High Commissioner in UK in 2001. Works include 'Malibongwe', 'Letter to Letta',and 'Voices that Lead'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2406 x 3486
Media Id: 57_472
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, academic, poet, novelist, 1994, 1990s, standing, talking, smiling, side view, Lindiwe Mabuza, Hugh Robertson, Pretoria, Gauteng, Opening of Parliament, ,
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Image Number: APN154172
Title: Elinor Sisulu
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Elinor Sisulu. At Writer's Conference, University of Pretoria. b. and educated in Zimbabwe. m Max Sisulu and moved to Johannesburg. Works include'The Day Gogo Went to Vote', (African Studies Association of America Best Children's Book award) and'Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime' (NOMA Award)
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3518 x 2384
Media Id: 57_499
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, writers, portraits, Writer's Conference, 2002, 2000s, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, Zimbabweans, author, sitting, pensive, thoughtful, three quarters view, Elinor Sisulu, ,
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Image Number: APN154173
Title: Andre Brink's Birthday
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Party at the Baxter Theatre
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3500 x 2397
Media Id: 57_487
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, 2005, Africa, South Africa, 2000s, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, party, celebration, Baxter Theatre, Andre Brink, birthday parties, Cape Town, Western Cape, ,
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Image Number: APN154175
Title: Lebo Mashile
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Lebo Mashile.1979 in USA to exiled South African parents. Spoken words poet.Member of Feelah Sista poetry collective. Works include 'From Our Mother's Tongues' and 'In A Ribbon of Rhythm'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3483 x 2409
Media Id: 57_418
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Western Cape, black and white image, horizontal, Lebo Mashile, Africa, South Africa, portrait, Portraits of African Writers series, 2002, 2000s, Robben Island, Cape Town, writer, oral poets, Spoken words poet, side view, gesturing, ,
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Image Number: APN154177
Title: Leonard Khoza
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Leonard Khoza. At the Bonteheuwel Library for the Mother City Book Festival.Leonard Khoza is a scriptwriter based in Cape Town.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3448 x 2433
Media Id: 57_498
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, portrait, Portraits of African Writers series, South Africa, Cape Town, library, head and shoulders, 2005, 2000s, Bonteheuwel Library, Mother City Book Festival, scriptwriters, black African man, Leonard Khoza, Western Cape, ,
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Image Number: APN154178
Title: James Matthews
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: James Matthews (b.1929. South African poet and writer. One novel (The Party is Over); several volumes of poetry, including'Poems from a Prison Cell' and a book of short stories. Awards include Woza Afrika Award (1978).
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 2834 x 2960
Media Id: 57_484
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South African, novelist, writer, author, poet, black and white image, France, Europe, 1980, 1980s, portrait, head and shoulders, water, facing camera, dramatic, wet, James Matthews, immersion, Portraits of African Writers series, square, ,
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Image Number: APN154180
Title: Ousmane Sembene
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Ousmane Sembene. Born in Senegal in 1923.Spent thirteen years in France where he joined the Communist Party before returning to Senegal in 1960.Wrote, amongst others'Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu' and 'Xala'. Was also a film producer. Died in 2007.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2927 x 2866
Media Id: 57_465
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Portraits of African Writers series, writers, portrait, Senegalese, Ousmane Sembene, Germany, Frankfurt, 1980, 1980s, African writers, African Writer's Conference, three quarters view, pipes (smoking), smoking, head and shoulders, square, ,
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Image Number: APN154181
Title: Andries Oliphant
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Andries Oliphant. At Writer's Conference, University of Pretoria. Writer, playwright and critic. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Comparative Literature. Works include 'The Change of Seasons & Other Stories', 'At the End of the Day' and 'The Bicycle'
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3487 x 2405
Media Id: 57_413
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Portraits of African Writers series, South Africa, Africa, horizontal, black and white image, portrait, writer, author, Pretoria, Gauteng, Writer's Conference, University of Pretoria, playwright, critics, facing camera, head and shoulders, close-up, pillars, holding, black African man, South African, 2002, 2000s, ,
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Image Number: APN154182
Title: Daniel Kunene
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Daniel Kunene. b.1923 in Free State, South Africa. A poet and academic who earned his MA and PhD at the University of Capetown. Has been teaching in the Department of African Languages and Literature University of Wisconsin, US for over 30 years. Now Professor Emeritus. Works include 'Heroic Poetry of the Basotho', 'A Seed Must Seem To Die' and 'The Zulu Novels of C.L.S. Nyembezi: A Critical Appraisal'
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Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3489 x 2405
Media Id: 57_518
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, academic, poet, South African, Paris, France, side view, low angle view, reading, gesturing, audience, Performing, Daniel Kunene, 1987, 1980s, ,
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Image Number: APN154184
Title: Mary Benson
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Mary Benson(1919 - 2000)Helped found African Bureau. Political activist, banned, went into exile.Wrote 'Tshekedi Khama', a biography, after working as his secretary. Also 'African Patriots. The story of the African National Congress of South Africa' and 'Nelson Mandela'
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: United Kingdom
Pixel Size: 2909 x 2883
Media Id: 57_443
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: square, facing camera, portrait, black and white image, 1982, 1980s, Portraits of African Writers series, writer, author, White African woman, Mary Benson, South African, ,
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Image Number: APN154185
Title: Mr & Mrs Achebe, Xolela Mangcu, Nelson Mandela, Nkosinathi and Mrs Nantsikelelo Biko
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Description: L to R Chinua Achebe, Mrs Achebe, Xolela Mangcu, Nelson Mandela, Nkosinathi Biko and Mrs Nontsikilelo Biko.
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Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3504 x 2394
Media Id: 57_464
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: portrait, black and white image, horizontal, 2002, Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, South Africa, Cape Town, Bishopscourt, groups, friends, sitting, 2000s, Chinua Achebe, Mrs Achebe, Xolela Mangcu, Nelson Mandela, Nkosinathi Biko, inside, black African people, Western Cape, ,
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Image Number: APN154186
Title: Bessie Head
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Description: Bessie Head. Berlin African Writers' conference.b.1937 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, adopted, became a teacher. Took up journalism; wrote for Drum magazine. Moved to Botswana where she wrote novels and plays. Amongst these are 'Maru',A Question of Power', and 'The Cardinals. Died 1986.In 2003 awarded South African Order of Ikhamanga in Gold
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Pixel Size: 2938 x 2856
Media Id: 57_516
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Germany, South African, Berlin, Europe, African Writer's Conference, authors, writers, 1979, 1970s, square, Portraits of African Writers series, novelist, playwright, black African woman, portrait, head and shoulders, smoking, Bessie Head, ,
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Image Number: APN154187
Title: South African Exiles
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Description: Taken in early 1980s.. South African exiles walking down King Street in London in the early 1980s.
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Country: England
Pixel Size: 2889 x 2903
Media Id: 57_504
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: portrait, Portraits of African Writers series, black and white image, King Street, Covent Garden, square, 1980s, London, England, UK, exiles, walking, streets, writers, groups, black African people, architectural features, ,
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Image Number: APN154188
Title: Wole Soyinka
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Wole Soyinka. Berlin African Writers' conference.B.1934 Nigeria Writer, poet, playwright. Awarded Nobel prize for literature in 1986 - first African laureate of Nobel prize.BA from University of Leeds, UK. Hon. PhD university of Leeds. Overseas Fellow Churchill College Cambridge. Author of, amongst others,'Ake', 'The Interpreters' and the plays'The Road' and'Death of the King's Horseman'.
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Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: square
Pixel Size: 2896 x 2896
Media Id: 57_515
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, reading, Wole Soyinka, Germany, Berlin, Europe, African Writer's Conference, authors, writers, 1979, 1970s, square, poet, audience, Portraits of African Writers series, playwright, standing, gesturing, ,
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Image Number: APN154189
Title: Jennifer Steyn, Athol Fugard and Denise Newman
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Description: Jennifer Steyn, Athol Fugard and Denise Newman. Rehearsal for Athol Fugard's play 'Sorrow and Rejoicings'which he directed.
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Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3492 x 2402
Media Id: 57_492
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, discussion, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, Cape Town, Western Cape, Baxter Theatre, playing, Athol Fugard, 2002, 2000s, attending, Denise Newman, Jennifer Steyn, rehearsals, groups, ,
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Image Number: APN154190
Title: Achmat Dangor
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Achmat Dangor. b. 1948, Johannesburg, South Africa. Poet and writer of novels and short stories. Political activist, banned in 1973. Works include 'Kafka's Curse' for which he received the South African Bosman prize, 'Bitter Fruit', shortlisted for the Mann Booker prize for fiction, and'Waiting for Leila'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3529 x 2377
Media Id: 57_454
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, 1992, 1990s, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Yeoville, South Africans, poet, novelist, political activists, sitting, facing camera, wine, glass, wall, Achmat Dangor, ,
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Image Number: APN154191
Title: Welma Odendaal
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Welma Odendaal. 1952. Afrikaans writer and designer. Runs the Cafe des Arts restaurant in Kalk Bay. Works include 'Keerkring' which was banned, 'Connie Vermoed Verraad' and 'Verlate plekke'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2396 x 3500
Media Id: 57_482
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, novelist, vertical, Africa, South Africa, South African, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, Cape Town, Western Cape, 2005, 2000s, White African woman, Welma Odendaal, designers, standing, facing camera, Cafe des Arts, Kalk Bay, ,
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Image Number: APN154192
Title: Njabulo Ndebele
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Njabulo Ndebele. b. 1948Writer and academic. Obtained PhD from University of Denver and has been awarded a number of honorary doctorates. Former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Cape Town. His book'Fools and Other Stories' won the Noma Award in 1984. Other works include'The Cry of Winnie Mandela', 'Bonolo and the Peach Tree' and 'Fine Lines from the Box: Further Thoughts About Our Country'
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: square
Pixel Size: 2897 x 2896
Media Id: 57_440
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South African, square, Portraits of African Writers series, black and white image, Paris, France, writer, portrait, academic, non-fiction, short stories, 1993, 1990s, street scene, standing, rain, caps, black African man, Njabulo Ndebele, ,
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Image Number: APN154193
Title: Max du Preez
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Max du Preez. At a hearing of the TRC.b.1951, Kroonstad. Investigative journalist.Founded Vrye Weekblad, the country's only anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper. Presented and produced Special Report on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Works include'Louis Luyt Unauthorised', 'Pale Native', 'Memories of a Renegade Reporter' and 'Oranje Blanje Blues'. Has won many awards
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3510 x 2390
Media Id: 57_476
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Max du Preez, black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, 1997, 1990s, TRC, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Portraits of African Writers series, portraits, writers, South Africans, hearing, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Mayfair, journalist, sitting, side view, investigative journalists, labels, Press seats, chairs, ,
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Image Number: APN154194
Title: Angela Lloyd
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Description: Angela Lloyd. A Cape Town writer.
Collections: South Photos
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Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3495 x 2400
Media Id: 57_507
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, portrait, Portraits of African Writers series, Africa, South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town, writer, White African woman, gardens, three quarters view, fountains, 2005, 2000s, Angela Lloyd, ,
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Image Number: APN154195
Title: Raks Seakhoa, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Pallo Jordan, Nuruddin Farah, Ayi Kwei Armah and Rustum Kozain.
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Description: Centre for the Book 2005 (The Centre for the Book is the unit of the National Library of South Africa)Writers L to R: Raks Seakhoa, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Pallo Jordan, Nuruddin Farah, Ayi Kwei Armah and Rustum Kozain.
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Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3475 x 2414
Media Id: 57_462
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: portrait, Africa, black and white image, horizontal, Portraits of African Writers series, South Africa, Cape Town, Western Cape, Centre for the Book, 2005, 2000s, groups, writers, inside, library, Raks Seakhoa, Keorapetse Kgotsitsile, Pallo Jordan, Nuruddin Farah, Ayi Kwei Armah, Rustum Kozain, black African men, ,
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Image Number: APN154196
Title: Ann Harries
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Ann Harries. South African author.On moving to England she became active in the anti-apartheid movement. The author of 'Manly Pursuits' and 'No Place for a Lady'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3538 x 2371
Media Id: 57_490
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, Cape Town, Western Cape, Portraits of African Writers series, 2005, 2000s, portrait, writer, South African, author, novelist, standing, hands clasped, smiling, art, pictures, Ann Harries, ,
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Image Number: APN154197
Title: Sipho Sepamla
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Sipho Sepamla. Born near Krugersdorp, South Africa 1932. Trained as a teacher. Has published 6 collections of poetry and several novels including 'A Ride on the Whirlwind'.'The Soweto I Love' (poetry) was banned by the Apartheid regime.Received the Thomas Pringle Award (1977) and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, for his writing.Died 2007
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Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2878 x 2914
Media Id: 57_519
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, 1980, Sipho Sepamla, square, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait,