Kojo Baffoe

Kojo Baffoe was born in Germany to a Ghanian father and German mother. He spent his formative years playing in the streets of Maseru, Lesotho, and began to write poetry in his teens.

In 1998, he joined the small but growing South African performance poetry scene and began performing at traditional, smoke-filled, arty venues around Johannesburg. He has since hosted, organised and performed at a number of events and venues, including Soulful Sundays (Rosebank), Monday Blues (Orange Grove / Newtown), Freespeech (Melville), Cinnamon Toast Party (Monsoon Lagoon), Bassline (Melville), Poetry in Locomotion (Melville), Elevators (Rosebank, Sandton, Newtown), Kippies (Newtown) and the Windybrow Theatre (Hillbrow).

He has published two collections of poetry: Voices In My Head and And They Say: Black Men Don't Write Love Poetry, a small chapbook of love-related poems.

A seasoned and respected performer, amongst his many credits he has performed for the British Council, led numerous high profile leadership seminars, toured schools around the country, worked with the Seven Poetry Collective and engaged in public dialogue with President Thabo Mbeki. He also toured the United Kingdom as part of the Hammer and Tongue Four Continents Poetry Slam, featuring eight poets from around the world, in November and December 2006.

Kojo's poetry embraces the spectrum of human experience and brings together a range of emotions and thoughts in free flowing verse:

 
 ' [I am] on a quest to find the perfect poem, a gentle balance between word, rhythm and thought… a poem that sends the moon and sun dancing over the skyline hand in hand... what is it I do, standing before you, sprouting words of pseudo-intellectuality… I, the poet, and you, the listener, or is it, I, the patient and you, the psychiatrist.' Kojo Baffoe

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Management and bookings:
Chilé & Lime Creative Consultancy cc
Fazlyn Toeffie 082 880 6862
E-mail chileandlime@gmail.com