THE MOVE . . .

current fad. I was just ashamed. The violence happened around the time Trevor Noah got the gig in the US. So it was baffling that we celebrated one of our own making it overseas, but torched those who make it here,” he said.

Sekusile continues to venture in the other ventricles of the singer/songwriter’s heart and speaks of where he is as a musician.

“I also wrote about other things I feel strongly about. Like on Uyangihlanganisa, I am talking about how God can restore dead dreams using the story of Hezekiah and the dry bones in the Bible. On my previous albums I had never been open about my love for God. I did it this time because it was important for me. I have put in a lot of love songs, too. I wanted to celebrate pure love, like on Kheta Mina, which means ‘choose me’.”

The love songs are unlike those on his first two albums. Here he’s the overconfident guy who flaunts his women to the lusty world.

“Another personal favourite is Isphalaphala where I am that guy whowalks around with a beautiful woman, saying to the dudes who look at her: ‘I’m not mad that you are gawking at her, I am with her because she’s attractive. Look all you want, but she is going home with me’. The cool thing about that song is that I wrote a Zulu rap and I had never written rap in Zulu because it’s really hard. It took me forever, but it was a fun process.”

Speaking of Zulu, the singer, who is Swati, chose to write the entire album in Zulu to showhis Africanness to the world.

“I remember the success of Colour of You from my first album. One of the things I used to hear was how it sounded ‘American.’ I didn’t know if that was a compliment and wondered if it was a good thing. I have aspirations of playing in Europe and the US and I don’t want them to confuse me with one of their own. So I wrote this album in Zulu because I wanted to take it to the world and have people know that I am South African.

“Also, the other thing I did with Sekusile is go the Afro-soul route. I did a neo-soul sound before and was successful so I hope my fans will enjoy this as well,” he said.

You can catch Kabomo at the Speak The Mind Poetry and Music Fest on September 18 and 19 at The Bassline in Joburg.

“I haven’t been active in the poetry scene for a while. It’s humbling that the poetry community still want me to take part and don’t see me as a sellout,” he said.

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