Category: Creativity
Location: Midrand, Gauteng
Karabo Mogane, 32, is an academic, lecturer, and educator with a passion for using the musical arts to empower young people and build community cohesion. Her research and teachings focus on music methodology, arts and culture, music education, and musical arts productions.
She serves as an advisory board member at the National Arts Council of South Africa and is also a transformation, diversity and inclusion officer at St Benedict's College. She holds a Doctor of Music degree focused on original, creative performing arts productions.
Karabo's studies have helped her acquire a comprehensive foundation in musical arts principles and music education which she uses to teach children from disadvantaged backgrounds. She provides weekly music and drama lessons at the Tsa Lapeng Music initiative in Hammanskraal and at an orphanage in Mabopane. Her students are taught the violin, viola, and theory of music. She also teaches the recorder to children in her hometown, Soshanguve. Karabo has enrolled her music students for graded music exams.
