![]() The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". ![]() These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Nondumiso Msimanga, Culture Review/ cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The protestīrings the mass issues, for which the names of struggle icons are invoked, home to where the struggle The everyday reality that makes these poems protest literature of the highest calibre. Poetic acts with a quality of being enchanted with the detail of real life. The personas that he writes, is a precise rediscovery of the ordinary. The concern that Vilakazi shows with the detail of the real words and tones and sounds of Ordinary called for exactly that, a recollection of the everyday living of people through these Ndebele said the pity with protest literatureĭuring apartheid was that it became the work of spectacle. “Concerning Blacks relays a deep concern with black living. Sees him delivering his rap inspired lyrics in township slang.” Mduduzi Nonyane, Daily Sun “Poet Makhafula Vilakazi is tired of living in the shadow of Shakespearean poetry.īorn Matodzi Ramashia in Chiawelo, Soweto, Makhafula has created a brand of poetry that Township that limpidly lie hidden in the folds of the yarns told about the rainbow nation suddenly rise, erect and threatening.” – Percy Zvomuya, Mail & Guardian. ![]() In it, all our terrors, anxieties and nightmares about the “I don't think I have encountered verse that captures the brutality of the township experience in the way Makhafula Vilakazi does in his poem, I Am Not Going Back to the Township. ![]() ![]() Much he embodies.” – Kwanele Sosibo, Mail & Guardian/ Mushroom Hour Half Hour (his birth name is Matodzi Gift Ramashia) grew from a poem he wrote goes some distance in explaining how “Makhafula Vilakazi conjures entire worlds, not mere words, when he spits. Makhafula Vilakazi says his first project was about “refining the black person’s identity by scrutinizing history and the effects of historical events on Black Africans”. In 2014 Makhafula Vilakazi released the critically acclaimed album “I Am Not Going Back To The Township.” The album features Samthing Soweto, Impande Core and Poet Khanyi Magubane. ![]()
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