Mahuma: From a hardcore criminal to a traditional poet

When one listens to Kaone Mahuma reciting this praise-poem of self, the immediate thought that crosses the mind is: Why he should relegate himself to the reject of rejects and a hopeless scumbag? And that is until one hears the young man's eventful life story.

Arts & Culture found time to sit down with this Sekwena traditional poet who informed this paper that there was a time when he, together with his Maspotisi peers were hell-bent on wreaking havoc in Molepolole, assaulting their victims at will. The 30-year-old poet does not hesitate to confess that at one time he was a messenger of evil.