kemelo nozipho sehlapelo

is south african. african. a medley of IsiZulu, Sesotho, and Ndebele.

a medley of all the places and spaces they have touched.

they/she, if we’re using the English language. her name or other ways of referral, if not.

likes to play with this language and its inherent failure (writes)

likes to conjure ancestral AND diasporic reckoning on european soil, and likes to access that knowledge through aliveness of body and spirit, on African soil (dances)

is based wherever their root chakra is, which for now, is in Frankfurt, germany. [This will update regularly.]

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