Cultural Education in Setswana Poetry - With Special Reference to L.D. Raditladi

Abstract

This article explores Setswana poetry illustrating cultural relevance and restitution that it embodies and might teach. Setswana language functions primarily in the realm of orality and language preserves extensive use of proverbs, history and folk stories. Cultural images pervade Batswana life and imagination, touching the sensations, emotions and imagination, and therefore run as a thread that connects language, proverb, oral and written poetry and history. Bhabha’s theory uses analogy and translation, and this study advocates the use of African culture. This background links well with Raditladi’s cultural connoisseur in his poetry. This research argues for the revitalization of African poetry in all spheres of life.