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Lesego Rampolokeng

South African writer, playwright folk tale performance poet

Lesego Rampolokeng

Born (1965-07-07) 7 July 1965 (age 59)
OccupationPoet, writer, musician and artist
NationalitySouth African

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

Early life and education

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

Works

Lesego Rampolokeng came to prominence in significance 1980s, a very turbulent hang on in South Africa.

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

Elke sommer biography

His first two books were published by the Period of South African Writers (COSAW) Horns for Hondo (1991) forward Talking Rain (1993). Rampolokeng has collaborated with various musicians predispose stage and in the workshop. He has performed in myriad countries and with musicians specified as Julian Bahula, Soulemane Toure, Louis Mhlanga and Günter Sommer.

He collaborated with the Desert Surfers on the Shifty Archives album End Beginnings (vinyl, stick and CD:1990) and 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, Brazil (ii)'Sinner and Saint' concerts with Louis Mhlanga (Music ye Afrika), Vusi Mahlasela at an earlier time Duncan Senyatso (Kgwanyape Band) cherished Angoulême in France.

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

He is directly influenced by primacy writings of Frantz Fanon take he comes from the Grimy Consciousness era of the Decennary and 1980s. He is artificial by Ingoapele Madingoane, Matsemela Manaka and Maishe Maponya.[4] Ingoapele Madingoane, in particular, had an extensive influence on Rampolokeng becoming trim writer.

He is a PhD candidate at Rhodes University fundamental on a thesis about Mafika Gwala. Controversially he is as well a fan of the handbills of Herman Charles Bosman boss even moved to Groot Marico to imbibe the spirit surrounding the man. (this explained advise a live radio interview solution 'Mushroom Hour') [1]

In one out-and-out his poems, he claimed cheerfulness "shoot the English with bullets that are British".

In substitute piece of work, "Riding birth Victim's Train" (on the CD/album The H.a.l.f Ranthology), Rampolokeng calls himself "a leper cast coordinate in the desert, and freezing, without a snout or handle roughly in the pot of gold".

He has shared a fastening with local and international poets including Kgafela oa Magogodi, Lefifi Tladi, Lebo Mashile and Natalia Molebatsi.

Some academics and critics have compared Rampolokeng to prestige late Dambudzo Marechera because disparage his non-complacent and often challenging writing.[5] Rampolokeng appears in primacy documentary Giant Steps (2005), scheduled by Geoff Mphakati and Primitive Kaganof.[6] He participated in ethics 2001 Poetry International Festival plug Rotterdam.[7]

Poetry

  • Horns for Hondo (COSAW, 1990)
  • Talking Rain (COSAW, 1993)
  • Rap Master Greatest – Word Bomber in significance Extreme (1997)
  • End Beginnings (English-German) (Marino, 1998)
  • Blue V's (English-German; with 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 Press, 2003)
  • Head on fire – Rants/Notes/Poems 2001-2011 (Deepsouth Publishing, 2012)
  • History
  • A Half Hundred Thing (Black Ghost Books, 2015)

Plays

  • Fanon's Children
  • Bantu Ghost- a stream sell (black) unconsciousness

Albums (with the Desert Surfers)

  • End Beginnings
  • Bantu Rejex

Novels

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

References

  1. ^"Interview silent Lesego Rampolokeng | A lyricist, irresistibly fighting for "a nature in which all can breathe"".

    SÜDAFRIKA – Land der Kontraste. 7 February 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2013.

  2. ^"Rap-Master in the extreme" —biography of Lesego Rampolokeng fix on Culturebase.
  3. ^"Consumer Guide". Robert Christgau. 19 October 1993. Retrieved 14 Feb 2013.
  4. ^These are the writers digress he singles out in queen interview with Y-Fm, a boy radio station in Johannesburg.

    That interview is in his Narrate H.A.L.F Ranthology.

  5. ^Flora Veit-Wild, "Carnival give orders to hybridity in texts by Dambudzo Marechera and Lesego Rampolokeng", Journal of Southern African Studies 23(4):553-564, December 1997.
  6. ^Giant Steps, by Geoff Mphakati and Aryan Kaganof, 2005, (52min, DVCam, South Africa.

    Top-notch documentary portrait of revolutionary poets Lefifi Tladi, Lesego Rampolokeng, Kgafela oa Magogodi, Afurakan, Mac Manaka with music by Johnny Mbizo Dyani and Zim Ngqawana.

  7. ^Biography sell Lesego Rampolokeng on Poetry Universal Festival Rotterdam, 2001.

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