kemelo nozipho sehlapelo

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

a mixture 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 place with language and its inherent failure (writes)

likes to conjure ancestral AND diasporic reckoning on european soil, and likes to access that knowledge on African soil

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

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