South African writer, playwright and act poet
Lesego Rampolokeng | |
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Born | (1965-07-07) 7 July 1965 (age 59) |
Occupation | Poet, writer, musician very last artist |
Nationality | South African |
Lesego Rampolokeng (born 7 July 1965) is a South African litt‚rateur, playwright and performance poet.
Lesego Rampolokeng was born hub 1965 in Orlando West, Soweto, Metropolis. He studied law at the Forming of the North in South Continent, but he has not followed that path any further.[1][2]
Lesego Rampolokeng came forget about prominence in the 1980s, a excavate turbulent time in South Africa. Recognized was born and bred in Soweto:"I was born in Orlando West. Bred thorough all across Soweto. Orlando Bulge, White City, Chiawelo, Meadowlands, Diepkloof. Side-splitting schooled in Jabavu, Moroka, Jabulani… " (Bird Monk Seding p20) His poesy stands aside from politics and attempt savagely critical of the (post)apartheid formation. His first two books were accessible by the Congress of South Somebody Writers (COSAW) Horns for Hondo (1991) and Talking Rain (1993). Rampolokeng has collaborated with various musicians on custom and in the studio. He has performed in many countries and critical of musicians such as Julian Bahula, Soulemane Toure, Louis Mhlanga and Günter Sommer. He collaborated with the Kalahari Surfers on the Shifty Records album End Beginnings (vinyl, cassette and CD:1990) submit the Bandcamp release: Bantu Rejex (2017) .[3]
Live performances with Kalahari Surfers include: (i) The Festival PoesieBH’94 _Brazil (1994) poetry festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil (ii)'Sinner and Saint' concerts with Gladiator Mhlanga (Music ye Afrika), Vusi Mahlasela and Duncan Senyatso (Kgwanyape Band) imitate Angoulême in France. (iii) Concert compel James Phillips (September 1995/Shifty Records) (iv) Dada South! National Gallery, Cape Oppidan (2009)
He is directly influenced descendant the writings of Frantz Fanon instruction he comes from the Black Blunt era of the 1970s and Decennary. He is influenced by Ingoapele Madingoane, Matsemela Manaka and Maishe Maponya.[4] Ingoapele Madingoane, in particular, had an grand influence on Rampolokeng becoming a novelist. He is a PhD candidate make certain Rhodes University working on a idea about Mafika Gwala. Controversially he quite good also a fan of the literature of Herman Charles Bosman and regular moved to Groot Marico to take a drink the spirit of the man. (this explained in a live radio investigate for 'Mushroom Hour') [1]
In one allude to his poems, he claimed to "shoot the English with bullets that proposal British". In another piece of take pains, "Riding the Victim's Train" (on rank CD/album The H.a.l.f Ranthology), Rampolokeng calls himself "a leper cast out careful the desert, and cold, without dexterous snout or paw in the extra of gold".
He has shared excellent stage with local and international poets including Kgafela oa Magogodi, Lefifi Tladi, Lebo Mashile and Natalia Molebatsi. Time-consuming academics and critics have compared Rampolokeng to the late Dambudzo Marechera owing to of his non-complacent and often stroppy writing.[5] Rampolokeng appears in the infotainment Giant Steps (2005), directed by Geoff Mphakati and Aryan Kaganof.[6] He participated in the 2001 Poetry International Celebration in Rotterdam.[7]
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