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Vem
For Capoeira TerranossaIt is true Carl, no one tells youAbout this or any other thing that truly mattersNot in record jackets or the dvd’s lengthy biographyWhat to expect when capoeira takes youBy the...
View ArticleSPEAKING OF WORDS
A number of countries and individuals recently celebrated short story day, to find out what some short story writers such as award winning writer Lauri Kubuitsile did in Botswana visit her blog here....
View ArticleCALL FOR PAPERS: CRITICAL WRITING ON BOTSWANA LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Call for PapersAMANTLE: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL WRITING ON BOTSWANA LITERATURE IN ENGLISHFirst Call for AbstractsAmantle is a Setswana historical and philosophical concept that values democratic...
View ArticleThe Botswana Society 2012 — AGM
Press Release Members and friends of The Botswana Society, and members of the public are invited to attend the 2012 Annual General Meeting of The Botswana Society to be held on Wednesday, 1st August...
View ArticlePrairie Schooner features Batswana Poets in Fusion
According to the voice newspaper and I am in a position to verify this :) "Prairie Schooner, the University of Nebraska’s internationally-recognized literary magazine, has announced its next release...
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Brunel University African Poetry Prize
I came across this information I thought you might want to have access to. I've pretty much cut and pasted the juicy bits below but please visit the african poetry book fund website for more detailed...
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The London 2012 Olympics are over. Botswana earned her first Olympic medal courtesy of Nijel Amos’ 800m silver. We came close in the women’s 400m with Amantle Montsho flying through both her heats and...
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IN IOWA
“If you want to be in the theater, you go to New York City. If you want to be in television or the movies, you go to Los Angeles. But if you want to be a writer, you come to Iowa City.”University of...
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I think I've fallen in love
With the wild indiscipline of it all. With the city of New Orleans (with gumbo and baby alligators and the Mississippi at midnight, despite my best efforts I'm such a tourist) and travel (not so much...
View ArticleOFF To FIND my CAT
This morning my name is Zarola and I never read horoscopes. Except perhaps if I should find myself aboard a plane, that steel church with its unfamiliar and uniformed messiah driving us to the places...
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HOME - O - GRAPHY
A basic point to note is that Setswana, like other Bantu (now sometimes "Sintu") languages, uses prefixes to indicate singular and plural nouns. Nouns belong to a noun class which Indo-European...
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STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY LT. GEN. SERETSE KHAMA IAN KHAMA PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BOTSWANA TO THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE TENTH PARLIAMENTINTRODUCTION1. Madam Speaker, it is my...
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a bunch of random things about Botswana - Cras es Noster
I love where I am from. Though I sometimes wake up from some nightmare where we have all forgotten how privileged we are to call this country home. I have thought to myself often, that Batswana should...
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The writer as a person (post Iowa)
The last evening of the Empire is devoted to gossip, not poetry - Ex Scripturis from Clouds of Magellan, Norman Dubie.Well 'tis not quite the last evening but my it draws close. If Lucifer himself rode...
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Macbeth:If we should fail?Lady Macbeth:We fail?But screw your courage to the sticking place,And we'll not fail.I do not mean to murder poetry. There is about as much profit in that as writing it. But I...
View ArticleDREAMING OF THE TREE AND ITS FRUIT
Currently one of the writers in residence at the Vermont Studio Centre, I have been outside today whispering in artists' ears, soliciting their hands in a public art/live literature collaboration I...
View ArticleWhat the other knows
Dear Brand Botswana, BEDIA, Foreign Missions and such,While I've been in the American Midwest one lecturer in preparation for one of my class visits set a little exercise for first year undergraduates...
View ArticleWHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LITERATURE you ask
"I suspect that one thing some people have against reading poems is that they are so often so serious, so devoid of joy, as if we poets spend all our time brooding about mutability and death and never...
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SATURDAY MORNING IN VERMONT
Had a late night in the studio yesterday I went to hear Maria Harris read - instead of editing something - and paid for it later but it got done so I gave myself my first morning off and realised how...
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