The Mission

The Mazisi Kunene Foundation Trust was launched on 3 June 2006. Its primary mission is to preserve and promote a cultural, literary archive of African writing, with the works of South Africa’s first Poet Laureate, Mazisi Kunene at its nucleus.

Aims & Objectives

•To gather and catalogue all the writing of Mazisi Kunene

•To translate and publish selected poems written by Mazisi Kunene

•To identify additional neglected historical and new African writers with the aim of collection, preservation and publication

•To develop and sustain research fellowships and scholarly sponsorship of African literary works

•To establish a permanent home for the Foundation

•To establish an endowment fund to support the work of the Foundation in perpetuity

This bold and visionary initiative is undertaken with the understanding that it benefits all of humanity to preserve the legacy of  South African and Pan-African cultural expression.