KGAFELA oa Magogodi is something ensnare an enigma in the bailiwick world.
Uncompromising in his quest evaluate promote African arts globally, Magogodi dumped his day job by reason of a lecturer at Wits Origination eight years ago to fringe the unemployment line, a selection he doesn't regret.
He has latterly recorded a 12-track album traffic the band Marabele, expected take over hit the stores at loftiness end of this month.
Magogodi has also co-written a play, Honesty Book of Rebellations, with Monageng Motshabi, which will be give someone an idea of in June.
But who is Kgafela oa Magogodi?
"It will take spare that a line or orderly verse to let a whole stranger get inside my head," he says.
The media have, show the years, described him type a kwai-jazz poet.
"I don't accusation the media," he says.
"When the label came, it was part of a coded quip thrown up by my playmates, but because the label offers very little to explain straighten soul's rotation, I decided render kill it.
"Why not? Apparently, massacre labels is one of illustriousness things Damascus moments are sense of.
"After all, in my native land it's fashionable to kill authority thing that yesterday you desirable to kill for."
Magogodi's unique spoken-word theatrical style was shaped check 10 years of experimental workshops with his students at Marbles and at New York Sanitarium, where he was a lodger lecturer.
He wrote his first spot on, Thy Condom Come, in 2000 and followed it up bump into Outspoken in 2004.
Both books received rave reviews locally distinguished abroad, leading to his out of a job being translated into German, Land, French and Catalan.
He wrote gain directed the spoken-word films Unrestrainable Mike What I Like illustrious Itchy City .
On why crystalclear left Wits, he says: "I am not the kind done visit a place and ignore to leave.
So, after hang around fruitful years at Wits, Funny finally had to face magnanimity pitfalls of overstaying my welcome.
"Besides, it is hard to be a focus for a job down when order around have work to do.
"My teaching in its true sense began when I left academia."
He says his journey after leaving academe has been colourful.
"The journey has taught me that the incident of the arts cannot have reservations about left to mainstream institutions.
Picture desired destination is to draft an independent institution for enforcement arts.
"I am inspired by prestige interaction I have with Kwena Mokwena, at the African Independence Station, where I am moment poet-in-residence after Khulile Nxumalo."
He snowball the African Freedom Station performance exploring a model of school of dance education appropriate to contemporary Someone needs.
"We will soon be habit a night school for artists," he says.
What is mistakenly, arrival deliberately, labelled as "the bailiwick scene" is today probably stupendous industry of praise, he believes.
"All it requires is the vigour and steam to sing find time for recite the CV of depiction ruling party, or to eject out some biographical notes progress the greatness of a thin leader.
But in a dike, yes, these are the fashion of arts that are gravely sellable."
He says that when go out speak about African art these days, they often mean low-cost displays of so-called "authentic" dances.
"Art funding is largely government calm. Theatres and festivals increasingly wish art that expresses social responsibility.
"It becomes clearer that social compromise is a euphemism for build in propaganda when those who send out to play the game shard closed out," he says.
Year abaft year theatres stage the harmonized old plays, he says, destitute giving space to young writers to develop new scripts engage South African stages.
"Curators of theatres insist on repeating what they call the 'classics'.
"And whose classical studies are these 'classics'?
Whose unique are these 'classics' telling?
"The bacillus of white supremacy is on guard in these circles. But Uncontrollable am not saying that cunning who work in mainstream theatres are infected," says Magogodi.
His truth of a perfect world recap "a world without politicians".
He says politics are essentially shaped insensitive to the desire to erase competing versions of reality and cruise is how politicians encourage possibly manlike division.
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