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Koolkat Motyiko: From Seronga to the world

Koolkat Motyiko PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
Koolkat Motyiko PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

While unwinding through the city life blues, one day a village boy loudly reminisced about the happy days of the playground. And through that reminiscence, he stumbled upon a song composition that changed his life. This is how Koolkat Motyiko went from Seronga to the world, writes THALEFANG CHARLES*

Back in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, before Thato Kavinja was Koolkat Motyiko, he was bored and so started fooling around in front of his computer.

He was at Mmopane, a small village on the outskirts of Gaborone and missing his home village, over 1,000km away. His last visit to Seronga had been in 2007 when he was only 11 years old.

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