WORDUP SESSIONS: Sabelo Soko’s Birthday Celebration — Umrhabulo On The Mic

WORDUP SESSIONS: Sabelo Soko’s Birthday Celebration — Umrhabulo On The Mic

On 13 December 2025, the mic becomes the altar and the poets become the prophets as Sabelo Soko celebrates his birthday the only way he knows how — through the power of word, rhythm, spirit and community.

In true WordUp Sessions fashion, this isn’t just an event, it’s a cultural cleansing. A gathering of griots, truth-tellers, healers and sonic warriors. Sabelo has called upon some of the most legendary voices in South African poetry, artists whose words have shaped stages, moved nations and ignited souls.

Expect a once-in-a-lifetime lineup featuring icons like Mak Manaka, Nomashenge, Makhafula Vilakazi, Prophet JD, Shaman Chant, Simphiwe Imbongi, Mo’Afrika wa Mokgathi, and many more masters of the craft — including the rising flames that keep the poetry movement burning hot.

This is Umrhabulo On The Mic — a feast of language, a communion of…