Nokubonga Kwana aslo known as (Bonga Kwana) is a 20-year old young
singer, songwriter, part-time poet and full time black queer (queer means not conforming to anything
specific). Bonga grew up in Cape Town but her home is kuCentane in the Eastern
Cape. She's a story teller; a conveyer of messages and emotion with a passion
and love for the arts. She tells her personal stories as a queer black woman,
through music and (sometimes) poetry. She started singing at the age of 16 when
she joined the school choir and has never stopped singing since.
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| Rochelle, Bonga, Khusi and Zoe |
The self-taught student writes music and poems
that reflects on her personal life. She has a note pad where she just jots down
all her notes and ideas for her songs. At the moment she is trying to put
together an EP and a music video for her recent single released on the 20th September
2018 called Nzwakazi. Nwakazi means a lady, but the song is about a woman who
falls in love with another woman and even when they are being criticized by the
world, they are going to love each other until the end. Her biggest inspiration
bad or good ,is her own experiences that she writes down not knowing sometimes
how to structure it but she gets it down.
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| Rochelle, Bonga ,Khusi and Zoe |
She grew up in a religious household so her
coming out as a queer individual in 2016 made a change in her relationship with
her parents. To her being queer means she’s not conforming to anything
specific. Not so long ago she was diagnosed with major depressive disorder that
inspired her to write a powerful poem titled “mental illness does not have a
face”. Her last words to people out there are, “People
should take care of themselves.”
Facebook: Bonga Kwana
Instagram: bonga_kwana
Presenter: Khusi Veto
Producers: Rochelle Fisher and Zoe Setti
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