Vus'umuzi Phakathi - Poet/ owner @ Kalahari Books

Vus’umuzi Phakathi

Vus’usmuzi Phakathi, also known as Bhudi Vusi is a Poet, Basa Scale up Mentor, Executive Director at Current State Presentations and a co-owner at Kalahari Books.

We first met Vusi at the Basa scale up mentor sessions in Durban where he was our mentor for three days.

“BASA” means [Business and Arts South Africa], he was guiding us through the steps and safety measures of creating a creative business and/or maintaining it if you have one already. He was also enlightening us about various Arts fundings and how to go about in registering for them.

Fast forward 2 months later, we are trading at a Festival in Johannesburg called Basha Uhuru, “ Basha Uhuru Youth Fest commemorates the youth of '76 & features art exhibitions, film screenings, creative dialogues, and a music festival! “.

We spoke to Vusi about the Festival and coming to trade there, so we asked him if he knows any accommodations near the festival and he organised us a great place close to the place of trade. We organised this shoot in between days of the Festival and the shoot took place in his book store “Kalahari Books”.