Meet The Team
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Danyela Dimakatso Demir is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Johannesburg. Her monograph, Reading Loss: Post-Apartheid Melancholia in Contemporary South African Novels, was published in 2019. Currently, she is working on a book on Lesego Rampolokeng’s body of work, which is tentatively entitled “Precarious Love: Reading Lesego Rampolokeng’s Oeuvre from Horns for Hondo to Bird-Monk Seding”. Together with Olivier Moreillon, she has also co-written a volume of interviews with a selection of contemporary South African authors. The book is forthcoming with UKZN Press in 2021.
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Phehello J. Mofokeng is the editor of BKO Poetry & Literature Magazine. He is also an author of Sankomota: An Ode in One Album – A Reflective Essay. He is on the organising committee of Abuja Literary Festival and Franschhoek Literary Festival. He completed Drama & Film degrees at Wits University and currently lives in Johannesburg.
Latest from Phehello J Mofokeng
- SOLO ART EXHIBITION: “Allow me to introduce you to”, by Robyn Field – Art, activism and #MeToo
- ART REVIEW: 1st Edition / “Painters of our time”: Exhibition opens March 5
- Allow me to introduce you to… a solo exhibition by Robyn Field
- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Perennial words of Don Mattera (March – June 2021)
- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Myth-making, ditshomo & African wisdom in Vuzamazulu Credo Mutwa’s writing – BKO Mag Jan – March 2021
- BKO Poetry & Literature Mag: 2021 Line-up
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- Call for Submissions – MATTERS IN BLACK: The ‘black register’ as a meditative force for black Africans – edited by Tendayi Sithole
- One day, the poor will eat the rich: COVID-19 and violent, political opportunism
- Mhudi Playwriting Competition
- The iconic, rasping voice of Tšepo Tshola is silent, forever
- A Sticky Note for Maru
- Prose, poetry & mythology in indaba, my children
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Latest from Sabata-mpho Mokae
- Your sun has set, son of Marukgwane
- Erotica in Setswana: Tuelo Gabonewe’s “Dinotshi” proves that every language has all the words in needs
- Mhudi an epitome of raison d’être for the existence of the African writer
- Freedom of the tongue, by Sabata-mpho Mokae
- EXCERPT: Moletlo wa Manong, ka Sabata-mpho Mokae
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- REVIEW: The Famished Road, by Ben Okri
- “The Wanderers”: A meditation on history, the prodigal nature of human souls
- POEM: “The Great Gasp for Air” by Khayalethu Mguzulo
- PRESS RELEASE: An ode to Sankomota is published by a debutant author with passion for the band
- Africa has lost Binyavanga Wainaina. But his spirit will continue to inspire