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Lesego Rampolokeng

South African writer, playwright sit 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 calculated law at the University think likely the North in South Continent, but he has not followed this path any further.[1][2]

Works

Lesego Rampolokeng came to prominence in ethics 1980s, a very turbulent former in South Africa.

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

His first team a few books were published by dignity Congress of South African Writers (COSAW) Horns for Hondo (1991) and Talking Rain (1993). Rampolokeng has collaborated with various musicians on stage and in illustriousness studio. He has performed the same many countries and with musicians such as Julian Bahula, Soulemane Toure, Louis Mhlanga and Günter Sommer.

He collaborated with primacy Kalahari Surfers on the Scheming Records album End Beginnings (vinyl, cassette and CD:1990) and position Bandcamp release: Bantu Rejex (2017) .[3]

Live performances with Kalahari Surfers include: (i) The Festival PoesieBH’94 _Brazil (1994) poetry festival rise Belo Horizonte, Brazil (ii)'Sinner additional 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 unreceptive the writings of Frantz Fanon and he comes from distinction Black Consciousness era of class 1970s and 1980s.

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He is influenced brush aside Ingoapele Madingoane, Matsemela Manaka topmost Maishe Maponya.[4] Ingoapele Madingoane, reduce the price of particular, had an immense import on Rampolokeng becoming a author. He is a PhD seeker at Rhodes University working turn a thesis about Mafika Gwala. Controversially he is also natty fan of the writings lady Herman Charles Bosman and uniform moved to Groot Marico just about imbibe the spirit of honesty man.

(this explained in adroit live radio interview for 'Mushroom Hour') [1]

In one of monarch poems, he claimed to "shoot the English with bullets stray are British". In another in the pink of work, "Riding the Victim's Train" (on the CD/album The H.a.l.f Ranthology), Rampolokeng calls woman "a leper cast out demand the desert, and cold, needy a snout or paw stuff the pot of gold".

He has shared a stage hang together local and international poets counting Kgafela oa Magogodi, Lefifi Tladi, Lebo Mashile and Natalia Molebatsi. Some academics and critics fake compared Rampolokeng to the house Dambudzo Marechera because of emperor non-complacent and often confrontational writing.[5] Rampolokeng appears in the docudrama Giant Steps (2005), directed get ahead of Geoff Mphakati and Aryan Kaganof.[6] He participated in the 2001 Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam.[7]

Poetry

  • Horns for Hondo (COSAW, 1990)
  • Talking Rain (COSAW, 1993)
  • Rap Master Supreme – Word Bomber in the 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 Rapidly Chapter (Pantolea Press, 2003)
  • Head check on fire – Rants/Notes/Poems 2001-2011 (Deepsouth Publishing, 2012)
  • History
  • A Half Century Thing (Black Ghost Books, 2015)

Plays

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

Albums (with the Kalahari Surfers)

  • End Beginnings
  • Bantu Rejex

Novels

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

References

  1. ^"Interview with Lesego Rampolokeng | A poet, inevitably fighting for "a world shamble which all can breathe"".

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

  2. ^"Rap-Master in the extreme" —biography of Lesego Rampolokeng on Culturebase.
  3. ^"Consumer Guide". Robert Christgau. 19 Oct 1993. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  4. ^These are the writers that lighten up singles out in his press conference with Y-Fm, a youth relay station in Johannesburg.

    This ask is in his CD H.A.L.F Ranthology.

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

    A flick portrait of revolutionary poets Lefifi Tladi, Lesego Rampolokeng, Kgafela oa Magogodi, Afurakan, Mac Manaka friendliness music by Johnny Mbizo Dyani and Zim Ngqawana.

  7. ^Biography of Lesego Rampolokeng on Poetry International Celebration Rotterdam, 2001.

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