Suzan Skhosana

Suzan Skhosana is a South African author, praise poet and cultural activist from Kgabalatsane in North West. Her writing and community work carry family memory into public life, making space for histories that might otherwise go unheard. Don’t Call Me a Chambermaid belongs to that commitment to dignity and remembrance.

She founded Raencho Arts Education Ensemble and a museum in Kgabalatsane, and has researched the work of her great-grandfather, artist and educator Micah (Miga) Kgasi. In 2026, Germany’s Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony reported on her efforts to return his sculptures from its Hermannsburg collection to South Africa.

Her voice travels through performance as well as print. Colombia’s embassy records her appearance alongside Sankofa Danzafro at Pretoria’s State Theatre; Newzroom Afrika has interviewed her on cultural preservation. Across those settings, the question remains close to home: what will the next generation know of the people who came before them?