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Timbila 2000 had 33 contributors with an inspiring piece from now Limpopo Province spokesperson Saul Molobi.
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Timbila 2001 Such an example of including probing and thought provoking thinkers continued with the three other installments, with 46 poets pitching for the christening of Timbila 2001.
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2002 and 2003 editions, briefly punctuated by a celebration of the Eastern Cape’s premier Grahamstown Arts Festival set the scene for individual indigenous voices to utilize the four-year-old platform. The 59 writers who trusted the initiative with products of their madness and musings were complemented by a book that also contained interviews of Mbongeni Khumalo, Don Mattera and essays from Swedish based poet and painter Lefifi Tladi and Prof Es’kia Mphahlele
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Timbila 2003 had 66 poets who most of them went on to have their own books published by the organization and its friends
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Timbila 2005 - serious literary book that includes essays, commentaries and critical reviews. It is a testament of how post liberation poetry has managed to remain in transition without being stuck in the political doldrums that saw many poets losing their themes with the dawning of liberation.
Vonani Bila, born in 1972 in Shirley village, Limpopo, is the founding editor of the Timbila poetry journal and directs the Timbila Poetry Project in Limpopo province.
He co-authored No Free Sleeping, Botsotso Publishing, 1998, with Alan Finlay and Donald Parenzee. His solo collections include In the name of Amandla, Timbila Publishing, 2004, Magicstan Fires Timbila Publishing, 2006 and Handsome Jita: Selected Poems, University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 2007.
His poetry has been translated into Finnish, Turkish, French and Dutch.
Bila is the author of eight story books for new adult readers in Xitsonga, Sepedi and English, namely The Girl with a Golden Tooth, Lengwalo la Mahlodi, Dikeledi, Mali ya Mudende, Ndzi Rhandza Ohazurike, The Missing Goats, Magweya and I Vukati Muni? His children’s books are Whose Lunch and Boy-fish.
Bila was nominated for the DaimlerChrysler Award for Poetry 2005.
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