HOME IS WHERE THE MUSIC IS, a conversation with Keorapetse Kgositsile

21pp., illus., paperback, Chimurenga, Cape Town, 2021

ISBN: 9781990990205

The title Home is where the music is drawn from Keorapetse Kgositsile’s poem “For Hughie Masekela”, dedicated to the South African trumpeter, composer and bandleader. It was presented to Masekela and later published in the collection, The Present Is A Dangerous Place To Live (1974). Masekela recorded a double album titled Home Is Where The Music Is with artwork by South African abstract expressionist Dumile Feni, released in 1972.

South African Tswana poet, journalist and political activist Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938-2018) was an influential member of the ANC in the 1960s and 1970s. He was inaugurated as South Africa's National Poet Laureate in 2006.

Uhuru Portia Phalafala is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Stellenbosch University. She is the author of Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement, poetics of possibility and the poetry collection Mine Mine Mine (2023), and co-editor of Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected poems 1969-2018 (2023).