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    Image Number: APN154139
    Title: Miriama Ba
    Path: african.pictures / 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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    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: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
    Description: Djamila Olivessi. A Moroccan poet who lived in Paris. Died in early '90s.
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    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: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
    Description: At the African Writers' Conference hosted by the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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    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: african.pictures / 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'.
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    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: african.pictures / 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.
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    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: african.pictures / 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.
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    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: african.pictures / 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.
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    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: african.pictures / 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'
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    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: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
    Description: Nuruddin Farah and Chinua Achebe. Berlin African Writers' conference. Discussion group.
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    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: african.pictures / 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'.
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    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: african.pictures / 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
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    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: african.pictures / 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'.
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    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: african.pictures / 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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    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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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.
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    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: african.pictures / 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
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    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: african.pictures / 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
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    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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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'.
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    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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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
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    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'
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: George Hallett
    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: african.pictures / 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
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
    Description: L to R Chinua Achebe, Mrs Achebe, Xolela Mangcu, Nelson Mandela, Nkosinathi Biko and Mrs Nontsikilelo Biko.
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: George Hallett
    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
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
    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
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: George Hallett
    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
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
    Description: Taken in early 1980s.. South African exiles walking down King Street in London in the early 1980s.
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: George Hallett
    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: african.pictures / 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
    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
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
    Description: Jennifer Steyn, Athol Fugard and Denise Newman. Rehearsal for Athol Fugard's play 'Sorrow and Rejoicings'which he directed.
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: George Hallett
    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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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: african.pictures / 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
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
    Description: Angela Lloyd. A Cape Town writer.
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: George Hallett
    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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