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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