Credo Mutwa

21 July 1921 – 25 March 2020 (~99)

1 live poem · English

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa (July 21, 1921 - March 25, 2020) stands as one of South Africa's most remarkable cultural figures—a traditional healer (sangoma), author, artist, and cultural historian whose work spans the tumultuous transition from apartheid South Africa to the democratic era. Though often controversial and sometimes misunderstood, Mutwa's contributions to preserving indigenous African knowledge systems, stor…

“Ask Jesus Christ hanging on the cross, why did they crucify you? Human beings are like that. They kill those that save them.”

Banjo Paterson

17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941 (~77)

26 live poems · English

Andrew Barton Paterson, known to generations of readers as “Banjo” Paterson, was born on 17 February 1864 at Narrambla station, near Orange in New South Wales. He died in Sydney on 5 February 1941, twelve days short of his seventy-seventh birthday. Between those dates he became one of the most familiar literary voices in Australia: poet, journalist, solicitor, war correspondent, editor, soldier, horseman, storyteller…

“Our ruined rhymes are not likely to last long, but if there is any hope at all of survival it comes from the fact that such writers as Lawson and myself had the advantage of writing in a new country.”