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Truth is in the vomit.
I’m stuck on a typewriter Literary critic! I’m not the right (write) type I brew a storm in a three...
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Word for Ramps – for Lesego Rampolokeng
Deep beneath Revolutions are staged Tears fall And blood spills Eardrums burst And ghosts appear In re-lived reincarnations Mysteries are...
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NEW RELEASE: BKO Magazine – Special edition: Lesego Rampolokeng
Curated by scholar and academic, Dr Danyela Dimakatso Demir, BKO Special Edition: Lesego Rampolokeng is coming out on the 16th...
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Archive, or Nkuku says
@TJDema But woman’s work was never out of season. Sol T Plaatje i. Nkuku says my obsession with naming is...
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Warrior love in the forest – Mhudi’s song
Let me see if you can love me for if, it is a dream wake me not, rather you, my...
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POEM: “The Great Gasp for Air” by Khayalethu Mguzulo
Khayalethu Mguzulo, is a poet known for his reality pieces that affect African youth. He is @WordNSound Poet of the...
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Puo ya letswele, ka Thabiso Lakajoe
Puo ya letswele hana ka puo e se timele lemeng la Rantsho, Ikatele nnake tse ding dipuo di se ke...
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Reflection, by Angie Thato Chuma
by Angie Thato Chuma Bleed child, that’s all you can doBleed the power he fails to see in himselfI know...
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The Sandglass, by Athol Williams
by Athol Williams We are orientated blind to time’s joys or sorrows unlesswe can count and weigh it, like a...
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Wisdom to the Years (For Tshidi Mapole), by Phehello J Mofokeng
The chaos of jazz, brings life into perspective Pieces of paper blow in the September breeze Lengthy bits of memory...
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ART REVIEW: 1st Edition / “Painters of our time”: Exhibition opens March 5
Painters of our time is a series of exhibitions that will host the most distinguished painters of our generation. Being...
ART REVIEW: Allow me to introduce you to… a solo exhibition by Robyn Field
19 March 2021: Upstairs @ Bamboo, Melville Online @Kunstmatrix.com The ultimate measure of an artist’s presence in the market is...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Perennial words of Don Mattera (March – June 2021)
Submission deadline: 25 May 2021 One of South Africa’s influential poets is Donato Fransisco Mattera. Mattera’s work is perennial, and he...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Myth-making, ditshomo & African wisdom in Vuzamazulu Credo Mutwa’s writing – BKO Mag Jan – March 2021
Background Submission deadline: 5 March 2021 Cover image by artwork "Vusamazulu" - © Sindiso Nyoni One of the most intriguing historical...
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Opinion
Cosmopolitanism in Mhudi – 100 years is a long time, but Mhudi is still relevant
The work of classical African literature pioneers such as Sol Plaatje and Thomas Mofolo progressed the intra-textual/intra-reflective...
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Mhudi and the beginnings of the historical novel in southern Africa
To make this review relevant to our era of the Covid-19 pandemic, I ransacked my literary mind...
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Editorial #2: Mhudi an epitome of raison d’être for the existence of the African writer
Mhudi was written in 1919 and 1920 by the towering Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876-1932) during his second...
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VIDEO: How the CIA stole African literature and exerted American imperial influence in the 1950s and 60s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG3nKy1oSwM Some South African academics, readers and plebs have called me a conspiracy theorist for mentioning that...
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