WEALTH OF IDEAS

Culture Week is commemorated as part of the universal declaration on cultural diversity by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) which also declare May 21 as the World day of Cultural diversity for dialogue and development. Mazvihwa, a rural community South East of Zvishavane is set to celebrate in style this year's Culture Week which begins on May 19 to 25 throughout the country.The national launch will be in Gwanda, a more central venue according to the organizers, the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe ( NACZ). A Mazvihwa-based and non-profit organization, Muonde Trust has lined up three crucial Bio- Cultural activities for the week's celebrations.   Top on the list is the collective effort by both the community and Muonde Trust in restoring Mazvihwa's popular sacred forest popularly and locally as ' Rambotemwa'. This sacred forest used to be home to a thousand variety of indigenous tree...

Accra, Ghana, May 10, 2018 - Ghanaian writer, Portia Dery, and South African artist, Toby Newsome have won the internationally coveted Children's Africana Book Award (CABA ) for their book, Grandma’s List.            ( Portia Dery & Toby Newsome, 2018 CABA Winners) The Children's Africana Book Award is an annual prize presented to authors and illustrators of the best children’s and young adult books on Africa published or republished in the U.S.A. The awards were created by Africa Access and the Outreach Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) and its sponsors include the African Studies departments of universities Harvard, Howard and Yale among others. Past winning writers of CABA include Desmond Tutu, Niki Daly and Nnedi Okorafor.       Grandma’s List is a brilliant and colorful story about an 8-year old girl Fatima, who wants to save the day by helping her Grandmother complete her li...