Yanga was born as Yanginkos’ inganathi Cyprian David Lingani but many people know him as Coolg. Here side sin Khayelitsha, Cape Town but he was born and bred in Tsolo, as malltown near Mthatha in South Africa. He studied Art and Design at College Of Cape Town (city campus) finishing his studies in June 2013. He fell inlove with drawing, sketching and sculpture way back from the age of 5, since when he never wavered or looked back. This Eastern Cape born artist studied and practices painting, ceramics, graphic design, photography and print making. His motive is to tell real stories through his magic style of painting. He doesn’t forget to show his background, the stuff he went through, and the stuff that gives him a motive to live, trying to show a different side of being an African and being raised in the rural areas. When he paints, his main purpose is to show every one the reality of what he has discovered, experienced and learned through his journey. As much as he wants to show with his talent and his deep realism style,at the same time he wants people to see real stories through his art.there’s always an encouraging story behind every artwork he create. Coolg used to write lyrics and poems as he was a rapper but sometimes struggled to find key words to describe the visual images of what he has witnessed. Painting has been the greatest platform to portray his deep feelings, his frustrations, his inspirations and his motives. Trying to communicate with everyone without using speech or writings but painting RECONCILE & REBUILD is his first solo exhibition but he has participated in many group exhibitions before including at Funky frames art gallery, Castle of Good Hope Gallery, Pan African Gallery, African Market, Young Blood Restaurant Gallery, 6 Spin street Gallery, Fugly Art Gallery and Artscape. “If it doesn’t touch their Souls then it’s weak, If it doesn’t reach their thinking ability then its not Deep Realism” You can find coolg on this email: y.lingani@gmail.com or his phone number; 0739679267SHOW LESS

Umhambi wendlela – is a renowned musician, author and performer from Khayelitsha. Umhambi wendlela’s musical essays, hardcore-reality lyrics and cultural anthropology impress by strong contrasting messages – The fascinating artworks are a reflection of his great passion for art. Umhambi wendlela was born on August 20, 1992 in Site B, Khayelitsha as the first of three children of Lungelwa Dyonasi. After attending secondary school, he started his Hip-Hop career as a lyricist and songwriter, where he was introduced to the pioneers of Spaza music and Umculo-buciko. He then attended the shack theatre programs at Makukhanye Art Room under the care of Mandisi Sindo and practiced performance theatre for several years under the direction of Mfundo Hashe. Several art-tour visits to Hermanus, Tsomo, Lady Frere and Queenstown followed. After taking part in several collective exhibitions, he launched his first musical exhibition in the circle for safety and security in his neighbourhood at the age of 26. He took part in several personal and collective exhibitions at home and abroad and became a member of the 1001 SA Stories. In the year of 2018 he attended the Indigenous Ensemble at Arts Cape under the direction of Dizu Plaatjies, Elvis Sibeko and Nolufefe Mtshabe. This new technique fascinated him so much that he created several contemporary musical experiments with various creatives at home and abroad. His music on the websites of Sound cloud, Audio Mack, Hype Magazine, and SlikourOnLife are certainly among the most valuable. His Mix tape project (Neighbourhood-Watcher) can also be streamed in the above mentioned music sites. In addition to his artistic works as an arts activist, Umhambi wendlela taught the art of public performances and street art for many years at the Abahambi Art Movement in Cape Town and Overstrand. In addition, he dealt and still deals with the creative arts industry which specifically refers to a range of economic activities which are concerned with the generation or exploitation of knowledge and information.

Khofhi ( Sindile Sydwell Kamlana) was born on the 28 June 1996 he is a
conscious Soul musician hailing from Barcelona, an informal settlement on
the outskirts of Gugulethu where the struggle is always present and
constant, but whose music seeks to inspire radical love and the conscious
awakening of a people while keeping those toes tapping to his fiery beat.
Khofhi started out writing songs in high school around 2009, found that his
love the arts did not stop there. His love for sound made him a natural at
DJing and being a fast learner made it easy for him to pick up the skill.
Which led to his stage name being born due to how similar he looked to his
idolized house hero black coffee school mates dubbed him khofhie. He
played around clubs, public event around Cape Town, Paarl and
Stellenbosch.
2012-2013
2012 saw him focused more on producing his own beats and creating his
own sound. He produced varies beat for different genres, he was also
staring to become more of a conscious rapper eventually started recoding
vocals, that when he decide call his home studio Sevens Rekhords. He
wrote and produced his own song called ‘what if’ wanting to connect his
lived experiences of pushing through adversity and being triumphant and
the human nature of survival. He recorded over 200 beat, and 50 records
from different artist in that time frame.
2014-2015
While studying at Central Technical collage he was also performing at Open
Mics, events and Rap Ciphers. Early 2015 he was invited by US actor Texas
Battle (bold and the beautiful soap actor) to perform at the Texas Dallas
foundation in Langa. That same year he released his first mix tape (self
produced) titled “Rhabul’ungafinci it had 14 records and featured artist like
Yonelisa Wambi, K2G, Babalwa Tiiwani and Okuhle the Vocalist.
2016-2017
He performed at Miss National Africa 2016 which was held in April in
Woodstock. His songs stared getting play time on the radio as well as a few
radio interviews he was invited to that year. He also attended a film making
and sound engineer workshops at SAE instutions to enhance his producing
skills. He stared to perform in Company Gardens with Yonelisa and Yanda,
performing acoustic cover song and fusing his rap skills to the jam got

them a local following as well as an international one. They performed at
UCT, UWC AND CPUT. In mid 2016 he taught himself acoustic guitar,
December 2016 saw him being one of the co-founder of the Free Spirits. A
band of poets, storytellers and musicians to name a few Jewel
Sophire,Nkosinathi Mpola, Tatenda Wekwa Tenzi and Thando Feni they
performed around the City Centre ,Open Streets cape town and Woodstock,
Iziko Museum ,Crypt Jazz restaurant and Ipa festival.
March same year Khofhie decided to go solo had his first solo gig at
Busiswa Lutshaba’s Iqhiya Exhibition at lookout hill which aired on
television.
He also shot his first documentary film with students from SAE.
2017-2018
He released his first acoustic EP titled Believe in your S.O.U.L( Sours Of
Unconditional Love) I would go as far as to say reflects his long journey to
the soul features 7 songs. This birthed the khofhie tour which was held in
different coffee shops around Cape Town to name a few Heaven Coffee
shop, Drawing room, Mojo Market, Continuum coffee shop, Khadim Coffee
shop, Siki’s place and Captain Kirwin’s Coffee.
Early 2018 met with Lui Hill and the whole team of Filter Music Group from
Germany to collaborate on a song with him as solo artist after they worked
with his group the free sprits on a song called 5000 miles away.
He is still promoting Believe in Your Soul EP, a body of work that is
contrived from self-discovery and engages the narrative of self-love. He has
a lot of different projects in the pipe line for this upcoming year for the
young artist premiering his documentary…. but I’ve already said too much
just watch this space cause the king is on fire.

Kahelo Tsosani who is well known as Kgosi, which stands for King in English. Was born and raised in Lesotho, he relocated to the Western Cape on the year of 1998. Kgosi was raised by a single mother, he is the first born amongst his siblings, Kgosi fell in-love with poetry when he was in primary school. He got interested in Hip Hop when he was in high school, engaging in cypher battles behind school classrooms, Kgosi’s friend who was a rising music producer at the time helped him to produce most of his music. But Kgosi realized how his friend struggled with most of his music resources and materials, and he felt that he should just go back to poetry so that he wont have to go to produce music anymore. Kgosi used what he had, to craft his own poetic art, and poetry was his refuge. Kgosi began to perform his poems for his school mates and classmates at high school, when Kgosi was at varsity he was introduced to Ikamva Lesintu and Ink Prophets which was led by Nqobi Madlala. Kgosi blossomed at Ikamva Lesintu, and he took leadership of the organization, but the workload that came with heading the Ikamva Lesintu movement began to isolate him from writing and performing poetry, fore he was busy organizing performance platforms through the Ikamva Lesintu movement for other artists. Through Ikamva Lesintu Kgosi was influenced to read through the ideologies of Steve Biko, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, Kwame Nkrumah, legends that helped him to understand the landscape of the township life, and the oppressing structures that aim to suppress the black child. Kgosi was also greatly influenced by the music of a Cape Town based Hip Hop rapper “Ndlulamthi” who he quotes his words “As black child elokishini manintsi amathuba wokuba uzbhaqe useVantyini yamapolisa…” Kgosi has studied a teaching course at the University of The Western Cape, even though people may stereotype the profession of teaching as one of the low paying jobs. But Kgosi believes that he is not adventuring in the profession for the money, he believes that he is there to make a change, and that if all people were born with the same advantages in life, we would have been better off as a society. He further says that “If you cannot afford to offer financial stability for your children, at least offer them emotional, wisdom and mental stability. That is not man made or bought.”

Luyolo Barney Pityana Lengisi Hawula, is a poet, activist, actor, director, feminist and a Politician. Luyolo was born and raised in the Western Cape, in kwaLanga township. He fell inlove with art on the year of 2008, he was acting doing drama productions by then and he was the best actor in his school. On the year of 2011, Luyolo joined an organization called “Ground” he was selected to go and represent South Africa in Sweden while he was a member of “Ground”, he did his first Art exhibition there and he was the best photographer. When he was doing technical introduction, in the rehearsals he made a mistake by writing the name of the art exhibition wrong and people who attended the exhibition laughed at his mistake. Luyolo was left devastated, and his love for art was left tested. Luyolo directed a lot of high school plays, on 2015 Luyolo created #Emthonjeni_Art_Production. He was then selected again on 2015, to go and represent South Africa in South Arabia, in the United State of America. He created another art production called #Emlanjeni, he directed #Emlanjeni love life and “Young Achievers” programs. He directed all of his projects while he was part of “Sikelela Youth of God” organization, on 2016 he combined both of his project #Emthonjeni and #Emlanjeni to become one project, which was called #Emthonjeni. Luyolo joined a group of young girls who were devoted on not getting sexually intimate or active that was called “Vukani Mthomboyi”, he directed the group and became one of its traditional dancers, facilitator and poet. He left the group to join “Real Phandas”, he won multiple awards as the chairperson of #Emthonjeni, as the best director, best actor, and best production. On 2018 he was chosen as the best poet, in the Western Cape. He faciliatated “Love Life” sessions, where they were giving a platform for rape victims and victims of GBV. He has shared the stage with Zoliswa Nkwankwa, Ntsika, Lebo Segobela, The Soil… He has performed for Julius Malema and Nqabayomzi Nkwankwa. Luyolo has been a director of a production under Magnet Theatre called “Kulture Gang” in “Winning Production” which is called “Kuzolunga”. Luyolo is a national executive member of a political party that was founded on the year of 2018, called “Organic Humanity Movement”. He has founded an organisation called #LangaForMan on the year of 2019, after he was directing an organization that was grooming young girls called “She conquers” but people were not pleased by this, because they felt it is boys that need to be groomed into responsible man than girls, so Luyolo was propelled to form #LangaForMan that mentors young boys into responsible man, and that teaches man about the dangers of GBV and confronts the ugly behavior of man and rehabilitates them into responsible man.”I will die poor, with a rich heart. We are emancipating people, who have no vision to be emancipated.” – Luyolo Barney Pityana Lengisi Hawula

#Back_2_School is publishing a youth based poetry, short-story and essay anthology. That is about the life of Cape Town, the struggles young people face while living in Cape Town, and how do they feel about the social issues as young artists in the mother city.This charitable anthology aims on encouraging young people to make their voices heard through story-telling, poetry and insightful views through their essays.

Aphiwe Magida the founder of “Back To School” is a second year student at CPUT, doing a teaching course under Natural Sciences and IsiXhosa studies. He is a event organizer of Buya Mbo Art Society at CPUT Mowbray Campus. Aphiwe Magida prefers to describe himself as a writer, fore the are many writing fields that he majors in; Poetry, Script writing, Short Stories, Novels and also essays. He loves performing live and he is a Xhosa fanatic. His short stories and poems has been published at “Intinga Journal” 2013 NMMU when he was still living in his birth place Port Elizabeth. Aphiwe Magida is under the mentorship of CYPHER, a NGO program that is located at the CBD Cape Town, it holds its workshops at the Central Library. Under the mentorship of CYPHER Aphiwe Magida had a chance to perform for Naked Word festival 2017 CYPHER production, Open Book Festival under Imbewu Book Club a poetry group that was created by CYPHER members on 2017. On 2018 around April Aphiwe Magida won second position at Kraaifontein Art Competition, Aphiwe magida lost at the Hectic Nine 9 Shine Shine art competition that was broadcast on SABC 2 But made his return and won first position at Naked Word Festival Poetry Slam the same year on June. On November 2018 Aphiwe created his first ever event “Silent Voices” that aimed on voicing out artist’s grievance through art, the was dance, music, poetry and drama. In which Buya Mbo art Society and other local artists like Saba Nguqu helped to make the event a success by contributed to the planning of the event and also performing on the day of the event. Aphiwe Magida is now busy with his second year studies under teaching course and His monthly “Back To School” programs. He wishes to build a library that will have books that are written by African writers about Africa in the townships one day with wood and zinc, the library according to Aphiwe must have a studying room and theater. And also tutors that will volunteer to teach High School kids Math, Sciences, Economics, Geography, History etc.

#New_Generation is a Acapella group that was formed by Thamsanqa Mabra Mokoena, Siphelo Bulani and Aphelele Miselo on January 2019. This Acapella group comes from Mbekweni Paarl, it has 10 group members; 5 girls and 5 boys. Their first performance was in the Central Library, American Corner on the 2nd of February 2019 in the “Back To School” monthly recurring program, that is organized by Aphiwe Magida. Through “Back To School” programs they got the chance to perform live on Cape Town TV on 24th of February 2019. They named their group #New_Generation because they believe that they are the #FUTURE. #New_Generation consist of High School learners who are currently doing Grade 10, the is Anesipho Platjies, Tokollo Vinger, Aphelele Miselo, Aphelele Cekiso, Aphiwe Qomoyi, Manelisi Malgas, Siphelo Bulani, Sinako Sitonga, Thamsanqa MAbra Mokoena, Asemahle Bululu.