South Africa’s Internationally acclaimed DJ Black Coffee real name Nkosinathi Maphumulo has reflected on his life and opened up his mental health.

 

 

 

Coffee revealed he was seeing a life coach who was very honest in a brutal way to him as most of the sessions made him cry.

Black Coffee was speaking at the mental health symposium by Investec Life, in partnership with the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (Sadag), in Sandton on Wednesday, 12 October.

e has never lived according to the society standards.

“Doing what I do brings a lot of challenges, and no one prepares you for it. All I wanted was to be a DJ. I never thought I could be invited to speak to people who are running the economy. Speaking was never one of my strengths. I never went to the kind of schools that my kids go to. Speaking is something I had to learn along the way, which can affect your mental health,” he said.

The Grammy Award winning DJ also shared how he grew up being surrounded by women and how that built and destroyed him at the same time.

“All my life, I was exposed to women. I was raised by my grandmother. I never had a voice of a man saying ‘come here my boy, this is not how it is done. It is done this way’. Women have built me
and also destroyed me,” he said.