# Mongane Wally Serote

> Mongane Wally Serote is a South African poet and writer. He became involved in political resistance to the apartheid government by joining the African National Congress (ANC) and in 1969 was arrested and detained for several months without trial. He subsequently spent years in exile, working in Botswana, and later London, England, for the ANC in their Arts and Culture Department, before eventually returning to South Africa in 1990. He was inaugurated as South Africa's National Poet Laureate in 2018.

*South African poet and writer*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** South Africa
- **Born:** 1944-05-08
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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## Sources
- [Mongane Wally Serote](https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongane_Wally_Serote)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mongane_Wally_Serote)
- [Mongane Wally Serote](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongane_Wally_Serote)
- [مونغانه وولي سيروته](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%87)
- [Mongane Wally Serote](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongane_Wally_Serote)
- [Mongane Wally Serote](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongane_Wally_Serote)
- [منگان والی سروته](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%87)
- [Mongane Wally Serote](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongane_Wally_Serote)
- [Մոնգանե Վալլի Սերոտե](https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%A3%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A5_%D5%8E%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%AC%D5%AB_%D5%8D%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%BF%D5%A5)
- [Mongane Wally Serote](https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongane_Wally_Serote)
- [Mongane Wally Serote](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongane_Wally_Serote)
- [Mongane Wally Serote](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongane_Wally_Serote)
- [Mongane Serote](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongane_Serote)
- [Сероте, Монгане Валли](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1726746)

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