Biography of Keisy Rams The Poet

The poet, performer, actress, Script writer and broadcast Journalist the daughter of the soil born 1993 Eastern Cape King Williams Town in South Africa. At the age of sixteen years she and her parents relocated to Cape Town It was while she was still in high school she then continue her education Journalism and media studies at Oxbridge Academy in Cape Town that the desire to work as an artist took hold of her. In her work as a life skills facilitator for adolescents ñ focusing on topics like gender issues, teamwork and sexuality ñ poetry has been her preferred medium. Kassandra Ramncwana (Keisy Rams) its expressive power as the most effective tool to bring about those changes in mental attitude that are needed in the aftermath of the socio-political changes in post-apartheid South Africa. “The enemy isnít really clear in the way it was before. It’s an incredibly sensitive, complicated struggle with many dimensions, but the site for that struggle is inside. … The language of poetry comes from a place where that transformation has to begin, that sort of intuitive, creative, spiritual searching place that will be the fuel for any kind of transformation process.”

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