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South African writer, playwright put up with performance poet

Lesego Rampolokeng (born 7 July 1965) is a South African scribbler, playwright and performance poet.

Early life and education

Lesego Rampolokeng was born in 1965 in City West, Soweto, Johannesburg. He attacked law at the University make known the North in South Continent, but he has not followed this path any further.^[1][2]

Works

Lesego Rampolokeng came to prominence in class 1980s, a very turbulent about in South Africa.

He was born and bred in Soweto:"I was born in Orlando Western. Bred thorough all across Metropolis. Orlando East, White City, Chiawelo, Meadowlands, Diepkloof. I schooled nucleus Jabavu, Moroka, Jabulani… " (Bird Monk Seding p20) His rhyme stands aside from politics dispatch is savagely critical of leadership (post)apartheid establishment.

His first combine books were published by position Congress of South African Writers (COSAW) Horns for Hondo (1991) and Talking Rain (1993).

Rampolokeng has collaborated with various musicians on stage and in description studio. He has performed entice many countries and with musicians such as Julian Bahula, Soulemane Toure, Louis Mhlanga and Günter Sommer. He collaborated with honesty Kalahari Surfers on the Artful Records album End Beginnings (vinyl, cassette and CD:1990) and high-mindedness Bandcamp release: Bantu Rejex (2017) .^[3]

Live performances with Kalahari Surfers include: (i) The Festival PoesieBH’94 _Brazil (1994) poetry festival speedy Belo Horizonte, Brazil (ii)'Sinner sit Saint' concerts with Louis Mhlanga (Music ye Afrika), Vusi Mahlasela and Duncan Senyatso (Kgwanyape Band) at Angoulême in France.

(iii) Concert for James Phillips (September 1995/Shifty Records) (iv) Dada South! National Gallery, Cape Town (2009)

He is directly influenced overtake the writings of Frantz Fanon and he comes from significance Black Consciousness era of loftiness 1970s and 1980s. He testing influenced by Ingoapele Madingoane, Matsemela Manaka and Maishe Maponya.^[4] Ingoapele Madingoane, in particular, had image immense influence on Rampolokeng demonstrative a writer.

He is elegant PhD candidate at Rhodes Organization working on a thesis be alarmed about Mafika Gwala. Controversially he assessment also a fan of blue blood the gentry writings of Herman Charles Bosman and even moved to Groot Marico to imbibe the constitution of the man. (this explained in a live radio talk for 'Mushroom Hour') [1]

In solve of his poems, he described to "shoot the English proper bullets that are British".

Lure another piece of work, "Riding the Victim's Train" (on blue blood the gentry CD/album The H.a.l.f Ranthology), Rampolokeng calls himself "a leper dreary out in the desert, contemporary cold, without a snout arbiter paw in the pot delineate gold".

He has shared smashing stage with local and pandemic poets including Kgafela oa Magogodi, Lefifi Tladi, Lebo Mashile station Natalia Molebatsi.

Some academics charge critics have compared Rampolokeng let down the late Dambudzo Marechera by reason of of his non-complacent and much confrontational writing.^[5] Rampolokeng appears pluck out the documentary Giant Steps (2005), directed by Geoff Mphakati paramount Aryan Kaganof.^[6] He participated restrict the 2001 Poetry International Fete in Rotterdam.^[7]

Poetry

• Horns for Hondo (COSAW, 1990)
• Talking Rain (COSAW, 1993)
• Rap Master hand Supreme – Word Bomber hutch the Extreme (1997)
• End Beginnings (English-German) (Marino, 1998)
• Blue V's (English-German; investigate CD) (Edition Solitude, 1998)
• The Bavino Sermons (Gecko Poetry, 1999)
• The h.a.l.f.

  ranthology (CD with various musicians, 2002)

• The Second Chapter (Pantolea Cogency, 2003)
• Head on fire – Rants/Notes/Poems 2001-2011 (Deepsouth Publishing, 2012)
• History
• A Hemisphere Century Thing (Black Ghost Books, 2015)

Plays

• Fanon's Children
• Bantu Ghost- a draw of (black) unconsciousness

Albums (with leadership Kalahari Surfers)

• End Beginnings
• Bantu Rejex

Novels

• Blackheart (Pine Slopes Publications, 2004)
• Whiteheart (Deepsouth publication, 2005)
• Bird-Monk Seding (Deepsouth Publishing, 2017)

References

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