Mbongeni Nomkonwana is a published writer, translator, and spoken word artist from Delft, Cape Town. He is the co-founder, director, and resident poet of Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement — one of Cape Town’s premier poetry collectives, renowned for its signature fusion of spoken word poetry and authentically South African music.
Since co-founding the collective in 2012, Mbongeni has been instrumental in making performance poetry culturally fashionable across the Cape and beyond, curating shows at the Baxter Theatre, Open Book Festival, and numerous national stages. Mbongeni is also an actor, a theatre director, and an aspiring standup comedian. He moves effortlessly between the page and the stage, between poetry and performance, between languages and worlds.