Lesego rampolokeng biography template
Lesego rampolokeng biography template
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Lesego Rampolokeng
South African writer, playwright and performance poet
Lesego Rampolokeng | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1965-07-07) 7 July 1965 (age 59) |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, musician and artist |
| Nationality | South African |
Lesego Rampolokeng (born 7 July 1965) is a South African writer, playwright and performance poet.
Early life and education
Lesego Rampolokeng was born in 1965 in 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.[1][2]
Works
Lesego Rampolokeng came to prominence in the 1980s, a very turbulent time in South Africa.
He was born and bred in Soweto:"I was born in Orlando West.
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Bred thorough all across Soweto. Orlando East, White City, Chiawelo, Meadowlands, Diepkloof. I schooled in Jabavu, Moroka, Jabulani… " (Bird Monk Seding p20) His poetry stands aside from politics and is savagely critical of the (post)apartheid establishmen