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Adam Small (21 December 1936 – 25 June 2016) was a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism. He was noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation.
Jun 25, 2016 · The university’s Rector and Vice-Chancellor described Prof Small as “one of those critical voices – one of the loudest, in fact, an acclaimed poet, playwright and academic who wrote himself into the very being of the South African nation as compass and moral conscience” (IOL, 2018).
Jun 28, 2016 · Black Consciousness activist, Afrikaans poet and revered academic Adam Small has passed away. In his large volume of work he gave voice to the downtrodden – those marginalised by...
Adam Small ( Wellington, 21 Desember 1936 — Kaapstad, 25 Junie 2016) was 'n Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer en een van die belangrikste Afrikaanse verteenwoordigers van die Swartbewussynsbeweging. Small het veral bekend geword deur sy gedigte en toneelstukke.
Adam Small (1936-2016) was a South African poet, dramatist, political icon and professor of philosophy and social work. Regarded by many as one of South Africa's leading poets and playwrights, particularly so for his watershed contribution to the canon of Afrikaans literature and theatre in the pivotal early years of the cultural struggle .
Adam Small was born on the 21st of December 1936 in Wellington in the Boland region of the Western Cape. His father’s family belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church and his mother’s to the Islamic faith. These influences instilled in him a sense of cultural and religious tolerance at an early age.
The authors Adam Small and Alex La Guma have written vividly in Afrikaans and English, respectively, of the effects of racial discrimination and of the complex and frequently violent nature of life in South Africa.
