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Badilisha Poetry X-change travels to Gaborone and Maun, Botswana

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Badilisha Poetry X-Change (www.badilishapoetry.com) is a significant platform for African poets – bearers of culture, knowledge and critical, reflective voices. Badilisha houses the world’s largest online collection of African poetry and has, since its inception in 2010, showcased and archived over 350 Pan-African poets from 22 countries. With the support of the International Fund for …

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Badilisha Poetry X-change travels to Eastern Cape and Gauteng, South Africa

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Badilisha Poetry X-Change, the home of African poetry, is currently embarking on a six-month road trip where its team will be traveling to various African countries in a bid to record and profile both emerging and master poets. This project will produce podcasts of African poetry from Botswana, Ethiopia, Tanzania and South Africa for online …

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Poetry Mash-Up

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Badilisha Poetry X-Change is attempting its very first poetry mash-up on Twitter and we would love for you to be a part of it. A poetry mash-up is the artful combination of content from different poets to collaboratively create a new poem. The mash up will be taking place Thursday – 6th November at 8.30pm …

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Scotland and Africa Collaborate

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2013 marked the bicentenary of the birth of David Livingstone, the nineteenth century Scottish explorer and medical missionary. Livingstone remains an important historical figure: he was widely admired in both Scotland and Africa during and after his lifetime, and he has left a diverse and substantial legacy. To celebrate the bicentenary of his birth, StAnza …

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Enthused Poets

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It is always a delight for us to have our poetry-infused days interspersed with tidings of feedback from enthused poets. One such message from Sandhya Mathura reads: “I can’t thank you enough for the start you blessed me with by including my poems on the Badilisha site. Because of my feature on Badilisha Poetry I …

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East Africa Ploughed

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“You re-introduced East African poetry to me” …these were the words that Kennet B, a renowned Kenyan poet, uttered after our stay in East Africa. In June 2013, Badilisha Poetry visited Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya, Arusha in Tanzania and Kampala in Uganda. We aimed to record 60 poets during our three-week recording tour, but …

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Poetry Pop-Up Shop

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Badilisha Poetry’s Poetry Pop-Up Shop was featured during the Infecting the City 2014 programme (10 – 15 March). The Pop-Up Shop gave Badilisha an opportunity to disrupt the dynamics and rules of exchange between audiences and poets, and between those with voices and those without. Badilisha used our “poetic commodities” and live performances to create …

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Badilisha Poetry X-Change

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Why We Do It Africans lack access to work by African poets. The works of African authors comprise only two percent of the world’s published books. There has never been an expansive, easily-accessible archive of historical and contemporary African poetry. This lack of access denies Africans the opportunity to see their experiences and identities reflected …

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