Biography
Ike Mboneni Muila was born in 1955 in Soweto, South Africa. He is known for his work with the poetry performance group the Botsotso Jesters, with whom he has published recordings and performed at festivals. Between 1988 and 1990, Muila performed with the Madimba music students at the Soyinkwa Institute of African Theatre in Soweto. His solo collection, GOVA, includes drawings and recordings and reflects South Africa's multilingual culture. He continues as a performance poet with the Botsotso Jesters and serves as Board Chair of Botsotso Publishing, a publishing, dramatic arts, literary management, and activist organization of which he was a founding member.
Languages Spoken
English, Tshivenda, Sesotho, IsiCamtho, Zulu
Sources
Finlay, Alan. “Making Space: The Counterpublics of Post-Apartheid Independent Literary Publishing Activities (1994-2004).” Social Dynamics, vol. 36, no. 1, March 2010, https://doi.org/10.1080/02533950903562419. Accessed 22 June 2022.
Mashego, Goodenough. “Ike Mboneni Muila: Gova, Book Launch.” New Coin Poetry, vol. 40, no. 2, December 2004, pp. 73+, Gale Academic OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A131780160/AONE?u=googlescholar&sid=googleScholar&xid=129d3bfa. Accessed 25 June 2022.
Muila, Ika Mboneni. “Inside of Me.” Lyrikline, www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/inside-me-1227. Accessed 22 June 2022.
