Mazisi kunene biography of martin

Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban on May 12, 1930, at McCord's Hospital. His mother Eva Kunene (nee Ngcobo) was a teacher and his father, Mdabuli Albert Kunene, a labourer.He grew up at Amahlongwa on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast and attended primary school there and later Kwa-ahluzingcondo High.  After matriculating in Marianhill, he obtained a teaching certificate at Maphumulo Teachers' Training College.  He began writing at an early age and was published in newspapers and magazines from the age of 11.In 1956 he won the Bantu Literary Competition Award and earned a Masters degree in the Arts from the University of Natal in 1959 for a paper entitled “An Analytical Survey of Zulu Poetry, Both Traditional and Modern".He went to England on a scholarship from Christian Action in 1959,leaving on exit permit since he was denied a passport.

After a brief stint in Lesotho, Kunene travelled to Britain planning to do his doctorate but events overtoo