The Limpopo-born writer, poet and rapper has mastered the art of being unapologetically herself
It wouldn’t really be accurate to say that Maya Wegerif, known more widely today as Sho Madjozi, chose to make words her thing. Because it wasn’t really a choice at all. ‘I don’t love writing; it’s painful to write,’ explains the 26-year-old rapper and poet. ‘But for me, it’s life. I would have died several times if I didn’t know how to write. Sometimes I wake up at night and I can’t go back to sleep until I put down the poem that’s scratching its way out of me.’
Diese Geschichte stammt aus der June 2018-Ausgabe von GQ South Africa.
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