Southern Africa’s top speaker, Vus’umuzi Phakathi, unpacks the architecture of a powerful speech, mental illness, transformation and becoming visible in white spaces in an interview with Dshamilja Roshani
From eSwatini to Johannesburg, poets are finding new voices through travel, collaboration and the transformative power of cultural exchange
If we read closely, spoken word still holds the realities of the past even though it is written in the present
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/ 21 February 2008
As South Africa’s spoken-word scene matures, poets are making the leap from stage to studio and back.