BLACKHEAT deSHANTI: BIOGRAPHY
Blackheat deShanti is a poetess who was born in 1986 in a small mining town called Zvishavane, Zimbabwe which is about 500km from the capital city of Harare.
Growing up, she excelled in academia, sport and art. She went on to pursue a career in the sciences, graduating in 2009 with Honours in Food Science and Technology and a major in Analytical Biochemistry.
She started writing poetry when she was 8 and then started performing in June 2006 after she met renowned Zimbabwean poet, Chirikure Chirikure, who introduced her to the rudiments of slam poetry at The Book Café, in Harare. After that, there was no stopping her. Speaking passionately on consciousness, love, revolution, culture and the delicate, iritical balance of the mind and soul, individuality and freedom, she was soon on the biggest poetry platform at The Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) in May 2007.
From there came the poetry show, X-rated, with DJ Munya Milimo, who was then a