Bongi Kasiki was born during the 1960s in Dirico, Angola. Her family, members of the !Xun San people, were employed by a Portuguese family for most of her childhood. After leaving Angola during the late 1970s (fleeing the war), she settled at the Omega Military Base in Namibia for a few years before leaving with her brother for Tsumkwe. Here she taught herself to work with textiles, sewing clothes and making quilts. After moving to Schmidtsdrift, Northern Cape, South Africa, she joined the Adult Education Programme in 1990. During 1996 she joined the !Xun & Khwe Art & Craft Project and started painting in oil on canvas. She is solely raising her four children and has survived tuberculosis. (Marlene Sullivan Winberg, My Eland’s Heart: A Collection of Stories and Art [Cape Town: David Phillip Publishers, 2003]). Bongi Kasiki can be contacted via the South African San Institute.

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