# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katlego-kai-kolanyane-kesupile
# Generated: 2026-08-16T05:49:07.532Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katlego-kai-kolanyane-kesupile"
name: "Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile"
slug: "katlego-kai-kolanyane-kesupile"
description: "Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile is a performance artist, musician, writer and LGBT activist from Botswana. She is known for being the first public figure from the country to openly identify as a transgender person. She is also the first person from Botswana to be named a TED Fellow."
tagline: "Botswana performance artist, writer and LGBTQ activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Performance_artist_Kat_Kai_Koi-Kes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans woman"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1988"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.64
  momentum:             10
  historical:           13.18657733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/kkolkes"
    handle:    "kkolkes"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/katkkolkes/"
    handle:    "katkkolkes"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://kkolkes.wixsite.com/kkolkes"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كاتليجو كاي كولانيان كيسوبيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "קטלגו קאי קולניאנה-קסופילה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Коланйане-Кесупиле, Катлего Кай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump