{"id":24757,"date":"2023-02-01T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T09:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/thepost-columnist-wins-award"},"modified":"2023-02-01T09:57:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T09:57:15","slug":"thepost-columnist-wins-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/thepost-columnist-wins-award","title":{"rendered":"thepost columnist wins award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Two scholars associated with the National University of Lesotho have been awarded the 2022 Thomas Pringle prize for the best literary article published the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Dunton, who is a columnist for thepost, and Lerato Masiea have won the prize, which is awarded by the English Academy of Southern Africa, for their article \u201cBetween rocks and hard places: the controversial career of A.<\/p>\n<p>S. Mopeli-Paulus,\u201d which was published by thepost. Dunton was previously Professor and Dean of Humanities at the NUL and for some years cwrote a column for this newspaper titled \u201cLeft Side Story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d Masiea is a lecturer in the NUL\u2019s Department of English and is currently pursuing his doctorate at the University of the Free State.<\/p>\n<p>Their prize-winning article was published in the journal English in Africa (vol.48 no.3, 2021, pp47-64). In it the authors explore the writings and life of the South African Mosotho author Mopeli-Paulus.<\/p>\n<p>As their title indicates, their subject was a controversial figure, who degenerated from being an opponent of the apartheid regime (he was, notably, one of the leaders of the Witzieshoek Cattle Rebellion, for which role he was incarcerated in the Pretoria Central Prison) to being a high-ranking accomplice in the Bantustan system.<\/p>\n<p>He was a prolific writer in both English and Sesotho (at one point he referred to the compulsive desire to write as a kind of madness!), his best-known works being the poetry-collection Ho tsamaea ke he bona (from time to time a set-text in Lesotho schools), the novel Blanket Boy\u2019s Moon and the autobiography The World and the Cattle.<\/p>\n<p>Dunton and Masiea\u2019s article covers all his writing, published and unpublished (his papers are freely accessible at the William Cullen Library, Wits University) and is especially concerned with the question of cross-border identity.<\/p>\n<p>Mopeli-Paulus was born in Monontsa, South Africa, in the lost territories\u2014much in the news recently\u2014and remained a South African citizen all his life.<\/p>\n<p>The dust-jacket for his first novel, Blanket Boy\u2019s Moon \u2014 which was an international best-seller \u2014 carries his name with the tag \u201cChieftain of Basutoland\u201d, but this was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Mopeli-Paulus identified very strongly with Lesotho and has much to say \u2014 some of it fanciful, even spurious \u2014 on concepts of Sotho identity. Dunton and Masiea explore this issue in detail, as it remains a topic of crucial importance even today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Two scholars associated with the National University of Lesotho have been awarded the 2022 Thomas Pringle prize for the best literary article published the previous year. 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