Namibia Hosts First SADC Poetry Festival
WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA -- Artsinitiates-Zimbabwe and Township Productions of Namibia will from 25 to 27 September host poets from the region for the inaugural Sadc Poetry Festival. The festival is being funded by Prince Claus Fund while the Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre, Township Production as well as Gentlemen’s Club are partners. The festival seeks to foster a culture of networking among poets as well as producing a poetry anthology after the event. The three-day event will open on Friday, 25 September in the evening before the workshop scheduled for the FNCC on Saturday 26. On September 27 the poets will perform to the public in selected areas. Some of the poets attending are Tebogo Makgetla and Keselofetse Ditsabatho (Botswana); Moffat Moyo and Milensu Kapaipi (Zambia); Cynthia Marangwanda (Zimbabwe); Khadija Tracey Heeger (South Africa) and Phinda Mkhonta (Swaziland). Memory Chirere, Zimbabwean writer and university lecturer, will be one of the resource persons, coordinating the work