Remembering South African poet James Matthew

The World

A fearless writer and poet during the apartheid era in South Africa has died. James Matthew was 95 years old, and was the last of a generation of black writers who used words to help topple an unjust system. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports on his legacy.

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