Books & arts
South Africa: D-Urban (w)Rites
2008-10-18, Issue 402
http://pambazuka.org/en/category/books/51342
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Zwakala Books hosts D-Urban (w)Rites –a showcase of published Durban poets on the 31st October 2008 at 4pm at Urban Zulu 321 Berea and Bullwer road. The writers who will present their works are Adam Knight, Bheki Mthembu, Bongekile Mbanjwa, Mphutlane wa Bofelo, and Khulekani Magubane. Adam Knight is a responsive anarchist involved in alternative architecture travels mostly on bicycle or on foot and lives a sort of sustainable living.
D-urban (w)Rites
Zwakala Books hosts D-Urban (w)Rites –a showcase of published Durban poets on the 31st October 2008 at 4pm at Urban Zulu 321 Berea and Bullwer road. The writers who will present their works are Adam Knight, Bheki Mthembu, Bongekile Mbanjwa, Mphutlane wa Bofelo, and Khulekani Magubane. Adam Knight is a responsive anarchist involved in alternative architecture travels mostly on bicycle or on foot and lives a sort of sustainable living. Cryptic Cynic is a cynical, surrealistic exposure of the comical and absurd in politics and society in general. Bheki Mthembu is an educationist and Organizational Development consultant who has started writing poetry in the early eighties.
His poetry book-I will not Dance-is an intuitive take on issues as diverse as disease and illness, politics and social life, culture and tradition, romance, the affective, the arcane, the mundane and the surrealistic. Bongekile Mbanjwa is a Pietermaritzburg based social worker who writes in IsiZulu. Her work has appeared in Isis X, an anthology of writings by ten South African women and in the journal, Botsotso 15. Her debut poetry collection Izinhlungu Zomphefumulo(Emotional Pain), exposes pain, confusion and different types of abuse with the aim of showing that suffering and pain must be followed by solutions. Khululekani Magubane is a visual artist and storyteller who has just published, Angels Salvation, a third book in the Angels series. This third installment of Angels tells the story of a rehabilitated and recovered Satanist, Victoria who confronts her doggy pasts in an effort to salvage her friend, Jane, who was the one to introduce her to the Satanist cult. In the process, the story also narrates a personal encounter of the ravage and devastation caused by HIV\AIDS on the lives of people. Mphutlane wa Bofelo is a poet, essayist, social critic and activist whose works operates within a triune of Black Consciousness, esoteric and humanistic Islam and Socialism. His latest collection of poetry and essays, “Bluesology and Bofelosophy” is a vintage rhetoric-free, from-the gut writing, that employs satiric and lyrical register to make patent the inextricability of politics and poetry. Ewok is an emcee, graffiti artist and rap poet. His debut CD is entitled High Flyer for Hire. D-Urban (w)Rites will be followed at 6pm by “rock your soul”- an open discussion session on contemporary political, social and cultural issues, featuring performances by Durban’s finest artists. At 7pm the featured artist of the day, will take the stage.
Contact: Ras Menzi -073 264 6681 menzi.maseko@gmail.com