Out loud: poetry, youth voices and social change

SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2016
TITLE AUTHOR(S): R.Bashonga
KEYWORDS: POEMS, YOUTH
DEPARTMENT: Impact Centre (IC), Impact Centre (PRESS), Impact Centre (CC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9261
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/9833
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9833

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Abstract

Away from the media limelight and academic attention, black urban youth had long been in dialogue on a range of important social, economic and political issues through the Spoken Word movement. In Gauteng it focuses largely on the themes of race, politics, gender, sexuality and religion, declares Ragi Bashonga.