Leteka Phillip Leteka

An artist from Hantsi, Maseru. Berlinale Talents 2022 @berlin_talents // Talents Footprints - MEP Fellow 2023

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Who gets to belong when simply showing up is a privilege?

In The Long Way Home Is Part of the Story, Douglas Vandergraph explores distance, compassion, and the unseen barriers to community participation in Lesotho.

Read on Mamosetse: https://t.co/L7nILJBfPJ

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Beyond the rallies and election results lies the quiet, ordinary experience of democracy.

Through intimate black-and-white photographs, A Day in the Life: Brazil Election Day follows one woman’s journey to the polls in São Paulo.

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Music as spirituality. Performance as transformation.

Ahead of their Maseru performance on 31 October, South African experimental band Sun Xa Experiment speaks to Mamosetse about African identity, collective humanity, and their mission to “breathe life back into people.”

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Lesotho might not be typically associated with a robust wine culture, but with the annual wine fest returning for its 13th edition on the 10th of October, ushering in the summer season with an event that promises a showcase of eclectic winemakers, springtime fashion and live music; that is quickly changing.
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At a village funeral governed by ritual and an obsession with time, the dead man wakes just before burial. What follows is a strange reckoning with death, tradition, memory, and our need to impose order on the unknowable.

The Funeral — a short story about the clockless space between life and death. https://t.co/KVT8Y5tJIj

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Our stories cannot survive on memory alone. If we don’t write, publish and preserve our own histories, someone else will—and they’ll shape how future generations understand us. A reflection on Lesotho’s literary tradition, Seetetelane, and the danger of living in a gilded cage.

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A young millenial cultural worker at the Alliance Francaise in Maseru organizes a film night to promote African films. What begins as an innocent attempt to contribute to the cinematic culture in Lesotho ends up getting him in a tumultuous romantic entanglement with a Mosotho filmmaker and a white, French expat.

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Some essays linger like weather. How To Name A Colour by Gwen Sullivan is a tender meditation on memory, landscape, grief, and the strange emotional power of colour. Quietly beautiful, reflective, and deeply human—(From 2025)

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[Leteka Phillip Leteka @phillipleteka]

Hello everyone. I’ve just published a new essay titled The Scar on Mamosetse. It’s a deeply personal reflection on memory, fear, language, and a moment that stayed with me long after it happened. I hope you’ll take a moment to read it.

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“There are moments that teach you how small your body is against the machinery of the world,” Leteka Phillip Leteka writes. https://t.co/gTtGQFhaqq

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“There are moments that teach you how small your body is against the machinery of the world,” Leteka Phillip Leteka writes. https://t.co/gTtGQFhaqq

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Smiles plaster the faces of everyone here because they are precisely where they want to be, doing precisely what they want to be doing. https://t.co/XOGikSSVvH

[Leteka Phillip Leteka @phillipleteka]

Ho kalla pelesa.
Mafeteng, Lesotho.

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Tin roofs claw the rain’s throat and choke out a scream, 
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Mamosetse’s ongoing series returns for its second edition. In the Listening Room, we invite a few of our collaborators, friends, and like-minded individuals who enjoy losing themselves in the textured journeys that music invites us on.

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Read this brilliant poem by Masasi Murakashi

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“I write from the marrow of this earth, where shadows stitch my breath to stone and the walls hum with the dead’s soft laughter. My fingers, blackened claws, claw at seams that weep gold for your purse..” — Masasi Murakashi

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"Mistresses are like children: if they want candy to keep them from whining, you do as needed."

Read the full short story by Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng at the link below:

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"The money grows teeth in my pocket, gnashing at the seams— a rand with eyes..." a poem by Masasi Murakashi. Read more at the link below.
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'Ke tla shoa moo u shoang, ke epeloe teng. Jehova a nketse ka hore le ka hore ha nka khaohana le uena ha e se ka lefu…’

Ka Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng

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Morena Sway is a lover. Not only in the romantic way one would expect, but in a broader way that speaks to how love in all its forms can fuel us in our respective careers and lives.
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Apart from the fact that we have seen this format before in shows like The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, and on the African continent, Late Nite News with Loyisa Gola, the problem with the show is that it parodies a parody.

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