Xabiso Vili is an author, performer, TEDx speaker and social activist, born in the Eastern Cape, raised all over South Africa and currently working in the City of Tshwane. He is the Pretoria Spoken Sessions Slam League Champion of 2015/16...

Some poems are their own confessionals. secrets unto themselves, betray themselves, are a dagger in the back, most days they can’t stop the bleeding. Some poems would rather be hidden, get rid of the blood in a public toilet stall,...

  Part 2 My mother blames it on the rats, men with arms as long as tails that know how to steal the teeth from your mouth, the pure from your youth, the gold from your labia, leave another heart...

To Breathe Into Another Voice was recently launched at The Orbit Jazz club. This is an anthology of jazz poetry compiled and edited by avid Jazz lover and poet Myesha Jenkins. Published by Real African Publishers, the anthology explores jazz...

Dear South Africa, You are not a child anymore. We should have thrown you a huge street bash and handed you your key to adulthood. But we couldn't. There’s not enough to celebrate. You see, we’re not sure you deserve...