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Dorphan is a gifted lyrical virtuoso – a blender of verse, hip hop, theatre, music and improv in his mission to be a truth-teller, a historian of self and society. His spoken word performances travel from the anguish of the personal to the uncertainties of living in a broken world. He opens the door to vulnerability and poignancy so rare in performance spaces chasing the momentary relief of comedy and lets the tirades verbalizing the pains of dispossession flow freely – telling the stories of the forgotten, the scarred, and the disenfranchised peoples – from the juicy bustle of Meru’s Gakoromone Market to the mad flavours of Eastlands Nairobi.
#Dorphanage

(an imagination, unfinished and non-existent.)

(more imagination + unfinishedness: https://www.youtube.com/@afrikankodo

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Checkmate Mido (the dancing poet) is a performing artist (Poet/Actor/Beatboxer) and certified trainer of the performance arts. He is widely known for his unique gift of merging art forms together to create an interesting, interactive and engaging performance.

Considering himself ‘a carrier of stories’, his work borrows from life, life experiences (his and others’ as
well) which he weaves together creatively through collaboration.

He co-facilitated a poetry performance workshop with Bassey Ikpi (Def Jam Poetry Star) in 2015 and
opened up for global poet/hiphop artist Akua Naru during her African Tour.

His poems and songs have been featured on BBC [Focus On Africa and Arts Hour], Badilisha Poetry and
SPOKEN WOR:L:DS (https://spokenworlds.bandcamp.com/album/spoken-wor-l-ds-nairobi-berlin).

He is the founder and one third of the band ‘boxofbeatske’ with which he recorded and released the well received ‘Box of Beats EP’

Discography

2020- FREQUENCY LP
2020- Alive… (live album with boxofbeatske)
2016- Box Of Beats EP
2016- Dreams (Single) in collaboration with Akua Naru
2014- SPOKEN WOR:L:DS (Compilation Album)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p049vgh0

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DembedeMidoCheckmateMIDO

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