Daniel Pule Kunene (1923-2016) was a South African literary scholar, translator and writer. He was Emeritus Professor of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<ref>Daniel Kunene, South African History Online. Accessed August 26, 2020.</ref> Life Daniel Kunene was born on April 13, 1923 in Edenville, South Africa. He gained a BA in 1949 from the University of South Africa, an MA in 1951 from the University of Cape Town and a PhD in 1961 from the University of Cape Town. He married Selina Sekhuthe in 1953. In 1963 he and his family left South Africa, finding political asylum in the United States after a stay in London. Kunene taught at UW Madison for 33 years. He also taught at the University of Cape Town, the University of London, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. In summer 1993 Kunene toured South Africa, his first chance to return after three decades of exile. His wife Selina died in October 1993. In 2003 he married again, to Marci Ellis. He died on May 27, 2016. Works Dithoko, dithothokiso le dithoholetso tsa sesotho. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1966. The works of Thomas Mofolo : summaries and critiques : a forerunner of A digest of African vernacular literatures, 1967 The beginning of South African vernacular literature: A historical study. Heroic poetry of the Basotho, 1971 Pirates have become our kings: poems. Nairobi, Kenya : East African Pub. House, 1978. The ideophone in Southern Sotho, Berlin: Reimer, 1978. (tr.) Chaka by Thomas Mofolo. 1980. A seed must seem to die, 1981 From the pit of Hell to the spring of life, 1984 Thomas Mofolo and the emergence of written Sesotho prose, 1989 The Zulu novels of C.L.S. Nyembezi : a critical appraisal''. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. References 1923 births 2016 deaths University of South Africa alumni University of Cape Town alumni South African refugees South African academics South African poets South African short story writers South African translators University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty South African emigrants to the United States Scholars of African literature 20th-century translators South African expatriates in the United Kingdom