Robert Mckay
Published:Aug 28, 2009
GHOST WRITER: Lesego Rampolokeng speaks his mind
A biting social commentator but no ‘people’s poet’
SOUTH African writer, playwright and performance poet Lesego Rampolokeng takes to the stage once again in Bantu Ghost at the Market Theatre from the beginning of next month.
Initially conceived as a tribute to South African hero Steven Bantu Biko on the 30th anniversary of his death in detention, this performance-art piece became instead a tribute to the black thinkers and writers whom Biko himself acknowledged as major influences in his own writing — Aimé Césaire, Franz Fanon, Robert Sobukwe, Mafika Gwala, Amilcar Cabral and others.
The show combines Rampolokeng’s poetry with experimental movement by one of the country’s top dancers and choreographers, Nelisiwe Xaba.
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