(Professor
Mbulelo Mzamane)
Academic, poet and storyteller Prof Mbulelo
Vizikhungo Mzamane passed away earlier this week.
The Director of the Centre for African
Literary Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and former Vice-Chancellor
of University of Fort Hare was called a “visionary leader, [and] one of South
Africa ‘s greatest intellectuals” by Nelson Mandela.
Describing his passing as a monumental loss to the academic
and literary community, The Minister of Higher
Education and Training, Dr. Blade Nzimande, MP, paid tribute: “Professor
Mzamane distinguished himself as one of our country’s finest scholars of rare
breed, cut from the same cloth with the likes of Professors Dennis Brutus,
Curtis Nkondo, Archie Mafeje, E’skia Mphahlele and others. He was the first
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare in the democratic dispensation.
Prof Mzamane authored and co-authored a number of books, including Mzala Children of Soweto, Children of the Diaspora
and Race between the Turtles and Cheetahs.
His scholarly publications include the Images
of the Voiceless and Multicultural Education
in Colleges and Universities.
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