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...Nkosi has always been comfortable with different types of media. She graduated from the Johannesburg branch of the Waldorf School, one of a group of experimental schools worldwide. “It was just a very physical environment. You were always working with your hands,” she says. She learned knitting, basketmaking, bookbinding and weaving...
...Harvard, Nkosi maintains eclectic interests such as gumboots dancing, a form of South African dancing similar to African-American step dancing. She decorates her room with colorful shoulder bags and scarves to combat what she calls the “drab and bleak” colors of Cambridge. She practices Wing Chun kung fu, co-founded and edits Harvard’s African Magazine, and received a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship...
...Nkosi has a quiet warmth about her that draws people in and disarms them at the same time. “Thenji is a real person. You can sit around and shoot the shit with her,” says Elliot G. Aguilar ’04, a friend from Quincy House. “She’s a really good storyteller. I feel like I’ve met all of her Greek family through her crazy stories...
...Nkosi responds viscerally to the video as it plays on a tiny screen in Sever Hall basement. “I love this man,” she says as one of the artists appears onscreen, singing. Later, she adds, “I don’t see my work in VES as work—I mean work in the sense that it’s a pain. I love being in the studio. I love editing, I think about it all the time...
...Nkosi is considering working at Artist’s Proof after college, although she wants to open her own community art studio in South Africa. She’s also considering getting a masters’ degree in art education, going to film school and traveling to Greece, where her mother is from, and making a film about her family background. Another path is creating a photo history of downtown Johannesburg, combining archival imagery with her photos and interviews into a book...