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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.
- Poetry
- 21 December 1936, Wellington, South Africa
- Writer
- 25 June 2016 (aged 79), Cape Town, South Africa
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.
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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Adam Small (Wellington, 21 Desember 1936 — Kaapstad, 25 Junie 2016) was 'n Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer en een van die belangrikste Afrikaanse verteenwoordigers van die Swartbewussynsbeweging. Small het veral bekend geword deur sy gedigte en toneelstukke.
- Julia Anne Elizabeth Engelbrecht, Rosalie Joan Daniels
- Skrywer
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.
Kids. Students. Scholars. Introduction. Adam Small was a South African writer and philosopher. He wrote about the problems faced by black and mixed-race people in South Africa during apartheid. He wrote mostly in Kaaps, a version of Afrikaans used by the colored, or mixed-race, people of Cape Town. Some of his later writings are in English.
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...
