Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape

Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (also known as Mo Laudi) is a South African multi-disciplinary artist, curator, writer, composer, music producer and DJ, based between Paris and Johannesburg. Since 2021, he has been a research fellow at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation (AOI) at Stellenbosch University.

As early as 2000, Mo Laudi organised South African-themed parties in London and later in Paris, focusing on electronic music genres such as South African house music, kwaito, deep house, afro house, as well as amapiano, gqom and shangaan electro. As a composer and DJ, he has produced official remixes for artists including Calypso Rose (Calypso Queen, 2017), Flavia Coehlo (Por Cima, 2017), Elida Almeida and Flavia Coehlo (Sou Free, 2018), Philippe Cohen Solal (AfroBolero, 2019), the exhibition he curated in 2022 at the Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne) in France, focused on his research on a borderless world from a Pan-African perspective. In 2025, he co-curated Afrosonica. Soundscapes at the Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève with Madeleine Leclair.

His artworks have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2019 in the exhibition devoted to Ernest Mancoba, at the Grand Palais in Paris in collaboration with Sammy Baloji and at COUNTER IMAGES at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne in 2021, at the Dakar Biennale His first solo exhibition, Dance of the Ancestors, His text “Globalisto: Resonances of Transformation, Echoes of Sound, and the Praxis of Empathetic Listening in published by Sounds Now in the issue titled "Engaging" in 2024.