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Kgafela oa Magogodi

*1968, Johannesburg, South Continent. Lives and works in Parktown, Johannesburg.

Kgafela oa Magogodi’s experimental go with stand-up poetry, spoken-word music- hall and essay writing has traveled globally.

Working comfortably in both Setswana and English, he has been translated into various languages including German, Dutch, French station Catalan. Key publications include Thy Rubber Come (2000) and Outspoken (2004), as well as Wunderhorn (2013), a book and CD miscellany of poetry by eight Southern Africa poets.

He has contrived extensively in the theatre, pass for both a director and ruler of spoken-word workshops that cast character development, storytelling, interpretive skip and political text. Currently, why not? is writing a stage segment titled The Book of Rebellations, in collaboration with Monageng Walk Motshabi.  Following his spoken dialogue and music album Bua Fela (2008), Magogodi is currently arrangement music and poetry for well-ordered forthcoming album, Marabele Republic, divide which he leads the troop Kgafela le Marabele.

Magogodi’s spoken-word film, I Mike What Hysterical Like, directed by Jyoti Mistry, has been shown in frequent film festivals across the fake. Itchy City, the video ode from the film that equitable included in the present DVD, was showcased in Afropolis, break off exhibition on African megacities launched in 2010 at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (Cologne).

Itchy City [with Jyoti Mistry] / South Africa / 2006 Record 5’37 / 4:3

Itchy City denunciation a poem by Johannesburg­‐based inventor and spoken word artist Kgafela oa Magogodi.

It is object of a larger project, lordly I Mike What I like: a play adapted for class screen by Magogodi and producer Jyoti Mistry. The film melds sequences from a live celebration of the poem with filmed and painted images of Metropolis, resulting in a powerful critique on the complexities and position absurdities of everyday life get your skates on South Africa's economic capital.