Ingoapele madingoane biography of abraham

Ingoapele Madingoane (1950 - c. 1998) was a South African poet and activist, and a member of the group of Black poets that organized in Soweto during the Black Consciousness Movement.

Mbulelo Mzamane called Madingoane one of "the most celebrated, prolific, and representative poets" of that movement,^[1] alongside Christopher van Wyk and Fhazel Johennesse.^[2]

Madingoane was born in Sophiatown, a suburb of Johannesburg.^[3] His best-known poem, "Africa my Beginning, Africa my Ending", was first published in 1979 by Johannesburg's Ravan Press (and a year later by Rex Collings, London^[3]) in a volume of the same title, which Mzamane called an epic.^[1] The authorities banned it within two months,^[4] as they did with many other literary works, mostly from Black South Africans.^[5] Madingoane performed the poem widely, backed by flutes and drums from Mihloti Black Theatre.^[4] By 2011, wh