ARETHA PHIRI, Senior lecturer, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University UHURU PORTIA PHALAFALA, Lecturer, Stellenbosch University KEORAPETSE Kgositsile, the South African-born poet who passed away in 2018, lived in exile in the US from 1962 to 1975 and was at the centre of the country’s 1960s and ’70s Black Arts Movement. Informed by his South African and Tswana background, the poet makes a case for multiple inflections of voices, geographies, and histories in the making of transnational black modernity. Analysing his work offers ways in which African poetry can disrupt dominant thinking on Black Atlantic studies, particularly Paul…