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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.
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...
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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.
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Adam Small (1936-2016) was a South African poet, dramatist, political icon and professor of philosophy and social work. Regarded by many as one of South Africa's leading poets and playwrights, particularly so for his watershed contribution to the canon of Afrikaans literature and theatre in the pivotal early years of the cultural struggle .
Jun 28, 2016 · Poet, playwright, translator, activist and educator, Adam Small was a protean man of letters, to which he brought black consciousness sensibility and notable humanity. A founder of the...
