Khulekani Ndlovu is an 18 year old girl, originally from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe but grew up In Marondera. She’s a poet who masters both stage and page poetry. Besides all this she is an author , motivational speaker and fashion designer.
Her first performance was in July 2017 in the school festival known as the SASSAF competitions. She only proceeded to District level as this was her first time to do poetry. In the same year she joined poetry planet, a group of thousands of international poets and she managed to get featured in anthology with just a hundred poets or less and she was the youngest poet to be featured and the only black person.
In 2018 she took up the SASSAF competition and proceeded to national level but unfortunately the event was cancelled because of the cholera outbreak. In the same year, she performed with her mentor Albert Nyathi before delegates from all over Africa on the innovation Africa day 2018.
She performed at theatre in the park before her mentor and famous Virginia Phiri who took so much interest in her that she left packing her bags before an important flight to USA and went to see Khulekani perform at the Up in smoke poetry event in 2019.
She has also managed to grab the attention of her mentor’s mentor, professor Fred Zindi who has acknowledged her talent.
Khulekani has continued with her trend and is now known as the ‘black widow’ from the release of black widow video. Poetry is a painting not seen but felt, a song not heard but understood is her definition of poetry.
She has 2 short stories written and in modeling she has been taken up by famous Jonathan Denga, one of the most successful models who was based in London . She later retreated from this because of difficulty in managing time , school and all other talents.
At ZJC she won a trophy for being the best in fashion works and she designs till now.
In 2019 , October she won a gold Trophy for being the female with the best ‘O’ level results at Marondera high school , with 12 A’s and a B. Currently she’s doing Mathematics, Biology and chemistry at form 6
January 2020 she released a short film which is based on Gender based violence.
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