Adorn Keketso Biography

Adorn Keketso Mashigo is a poet, a student-cum-mentor studying International Communication and a contributing freelance journalist. Keketso’s poetry journey began at the early age of 15 after meeting up with an intellectual dedicated rapper (Macdonald Lekhuleni) who encouraged him to use poetry as a medium to express himself and communicate/convey decisive message(s) to the world through word-power. He recalls very precisely what Macdonald once said, “before the world it was the word and the word was with God, today the word is with the poet”, he reiterated I write more often to grow in the poetic sphere before he could take my work to Goodenough Mashego (a renowned poet) for review and criticism, in mashego I discovered s gem, a poet who manipulates the poetic language like he was born with a poetic drum palpitating in his heart only to be translated into words, Mashego further encouraged my writing by suggesting I read more than I write, “read read read and read, books are the source of knowledge and poets are the tongues of the silent minority”, he said. He fed me books and the first book I ever enjoyed amongst the many he gave me was 'Young Blood', by Sifiso Mzobe. He fed me books such as Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Mask) , Aziz Hassim (The Lotus People) the imposter by Damon galgut and many more others. I still refer to people like Vonani Bila, Matete Motsoaledi, Moses Seletisha, Goodenough Mashego, Rumi, Oscarine Humanity, David Maahlamela, Dennis Brutus, Nadine Gordimer, and Macdonald Masta H Lekhuleni among others as the people who shaped my poetry and still shape poetry. I write poetry because that’s the obsession I am the closest to, I write what I like, In the spirit of Steven Bantu Biko I write poetry!