Lesego
Rampolokeng (1965) is a South African writer, playwright and performance poet
from Orlando West, Soweto, Johannesburg. He studied law at the University of
the North in South Africa, but he has not followed this path any further.
Lesego
Rampolokeng came to prominence in the 1980s, a very turbulent time in South
Africa. His poetry often criticises the establishment. His first instalment of
poetry was Horns for Hondo (1991) and this was followed by End Beginnings
(1993).
Lesego
collaborates with musicians. He has performed in many countries and with
musicians such as Julian Bahula, Soulemane Toure, Louis Mhlanga and Gunther
Sommer
In
one of his poems he claimed to "shoot the English with bullets that are
British". In another piece of work, "Riding the Victim's Train"
(on the CD / album The H.a.l.f Ranthology), Rampolokeng calls himself "a
leper cast out in the desert, and cold, without a snout or paw in the pot of
gold".
He
participated in the 2001 Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam.
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