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Mtshali frequently calls simply "ancestors". Published with a preface by
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Mtshali's work was popular among white liberals in South Africa, which may have made him less of an icon for other black poets. In a 1978 interview, the poet
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The title of the book is explained by an image in a poem with the same title:
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