ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kabelo ‘Jazzmeneer’ Mofokeng is a practising poet and a trained photographer with a deep love for music. He is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing Course (2014) offered at Rhodes University. He has published poetry, prose and photo-essays in a number of ‘Pan African’ literary journals, as well as written and produced the play, Taxi Poetry (2003), including self-published a volume of my poetry and photographs, Black Pen Vol. 1 (2007), with drawings by Wesley Pepper. Included photography exhibitions are Red Ants: Corner Bree and Harrison (2009), and the Soweto Photo Album Exhibition titled Fifiela ‘To See with Difficulty’ (2010), of a more notable film about music, Shwabada: The Music of Ndikho Xaba (2016). As a cultural worker and scholar, he has co-curated spoken word and multimedia performances, as well as interactive photography exhibitions within township areas in Johannesburg, a major Afropolitan city. Moreover, he has a good first-hand knowledge of literary trends and practices, particularly with regard to the dynamic literary traditions of South African townships, which are often marginalised and under-represented in the South African canon. In his own words, Mofokeng declares, “I am excited to participate in Botsotso’s expansion of urban, black, multilingual literature, in both its oral and written forms.”

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