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Jun 25, 2016 · First Name: Adam. Last Name: Small. Date of Birth: 21 December 1936. Date of Death: Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant father.
Adam Small (21 December 1936 – 25 June 2016) was a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism. He was noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation.
Jun 28, 2016 · Black Consciousness activist, Afrikaans poet and revered academic Adam Small has passed away. In his large volume of work he gave voice to the downtrodden – those marginalised by apartheid.
- Hein Willemse
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In African literature: Afrikaans. Adam Small wrote works, such as Kanna hy kô hystoe (1965; Kanna—He Is Coming Home ), that revealed the realities of the lives of nonwhites in South Africa. Ingrid Jonker wrote intensely personal poetry.
Small is regarded as one of the leading playwrights in Afrikaans. André P. Brink regards Kanna hy kô hystoe (1965) as a pinnacle in the Afrikaans drama tradition. The play deals with an individual who is torn between his own ambitions and the expectations of his people.
Adam Small was born on the 21st of December 1936 in Wellington in the Boland region of the Western Cape. His father’s family belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church and his mother’s to the Islamic faith. These influences instilled in him a sense of cultural and religious tolerance at an early age.
Jul 3, 2016 · Adam Small, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 79, was an Afrikaans poet, playwright and philosopher of almost legendary status in the Western Cape during apartheid.When he published, it...
