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The BKO web site acts as the hub currently, but the BKO crew used their younger years well, putting together a strong series of youth workshops at venues such as Consitution Hill, culminating in the Black Word Festival. In the initial years BKO Mag - a zine servicing the spoken word scene - was the focus, today BKO is involved in all sorts of diverse stuff. Check them out at Bko.co.za. Listen!Doomed Youth: Flo live at a BKO session
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BKO, founded by Phehello Mofokeng and Teboho Mofokeng when the were still young bucks charging around the local performance scene, is today largely a loosely knitted collection of writers and poets in Joburg and beyond. 
Meropa has been a stand out figure on the Joburg streets arts scene for several years already. Born and raised in Soweto's Zola region, he has developed a unique style and brand of music that mixes traditional themes and idioms with a hip hop ethos and the undeniable pull of a solo acoustic guitar.