Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Badilisha Poetry X-Change - Pan-African Event


The world’s biggest online archive of Pan-African poetry, Badilisha Poetry X-Change, will be hosting live poetry in Cape Town to celebrate the end of the Badilisha Poetry Road Trip – a trip into the African continent to meet and record the work of the poets who live and work here.
The event will take place on December 4th 2015

Venue: The Beautiful Life, 70-72 Bree Street, Cape Town.

What you can expect:

A host of internationally acclaimed poets like TJ Dema from Botswana.
Prof Keorapatse Willie Kgositsile from South Africa will be there.
There will also be voices from Tanzania, Ethiopia and beyond.
The event is taking place with the support of IFPC and UNESCO.
Badilisha Poetry X-Change is a project of the Africa Centre.

For more info visit: www.africacentre.net

This edition by Fred Felton

Twitter @fredfelton 

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