
Saturday, 26 September 2020 at:
3 PM (Jerusalem, Kenya
2 PM (Botswana, Morocco, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
1 PM (Nigeria)
12 Noon (Sierra Leone)
8 AM (US-East Coast)
You are welcome to attend and we look forward to presenting an exciting, dynamic and vibrant Poetry Symposium, where Africa speaks of itself through poetry.
The 100 Thousand Poets for Change Movement was founded 10 years ago by Editors, Poets, and internationally acclaimed Artists Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion —in order to speak change, to speak truth—against racial injustice, wars, poverty, corruption, the demise of human rights and smothering of human freedoms. The movements speaks through literary arts activism and social change-activism arts.
The Poetry Fête is co-hosted by African Griots and The BeZine in coordination with 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Poets in this All Africa Poetry Celebration are from Sierra Leone, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Morocco, and Zimbabwe. Co-host and Emcee, Mbizo Chirasha, has worked tirelessly with 100 Thousand Poets for Change since its inception a decade ago, through literary arts projects GirlChildCreativity Project and the Zimbabwe We Want Poetry Campaign.Internationally renowned Jerusalem-based poet and The BeZine editor Michael Dickel will co-host the streaming events and attempt to wrangle the technology. This mega event will be streamed lived on several digital platforms.
Further details, including a registration link, will be forthcoming soon.
ALUTA CONTINUA
—Mbizo CHIRASHA-Resident Coordinator

JERUSHA KANANU- Kenya

Jerusha Kananu <jerushakananu@gmail.com>
https://web.facebook.com/kananuh.jerusha

ADESINA AJALA- Nigeria

Adesina Ajala <talktoadesina@gmail.com>
https://web.facebook.com/adesina.ajala

MICHAEL MWANGI MACHARIA- KENYA

MICHAEL MWANGI MACHARIA is a prolific poet who was born and raised in Nakuru county of the expansive Rift Valley in Kenya.He is a graduate of Moi University .He was anthologized in Echoes Across the Valley and has published in online journals.He also contributes articles in Saturday Nation.He also has interest in photography, fine arts,music,drama and dance.He is associated with a private publisher and has edited a few manuscripts. He finds poetry a worthwhile and great pastime as well as form of expression.He feels the information technology revolution has been a great opportunity for poets to link up and create positive change in the world today.
michael macharia<machariamichael@yahoo.com>
https://web.facebook.com/michael.macharia1

NANCY NDEKE-Kenya

nancy ndeke<nandeke63@gmail.com>
https://web.facebook.com/nancy.ndeke.14

TANAKA CHIDORA- Zimbabwe

Tanaka Chidora is a poet, literary critic and academic who teaches Creative Writing and Theories of Literature in the Department of English at the University of Zimbabwe. Some of his works appear in Zimbolicious (Volume 4), The Standard’s Gourd of Consciousness poetry corner (Zimbabwe), and Brave Voices Poetry Journal. Tanaka is currently working on two novels, the first an auto-fictional memoir of his childhood in Mbare, and the second a collection of a Chitungwiza commuter’s diaries. Read an interview with Tanaka Chidora here.
Tanaka Chidora<chidoratanaka@gmail.com>
https://web.facebook.com/chidoratanaka

NYANDURI NYANDORO-Zimbabwe

Tafadzwa Muzondo<tafartist@gmail.com>
https://web.facebook.com/tafadzwa.muzondo

TINOTENDA WILSON WAISON ,LOWLIFEDIARIST- Zimbabwe

TYNOE WILSON – a rising Zimbabwean poet, a Word Slinger and a rights Activist. An impetuous mastermind so zealous to out the muddling and crippling societal affair through stanza.A rising and defiant voice shaping the struggle for positive transformation and Peace.Waison Tinotenda Wilson is the author of Murder me He has published and created several poetry compilations and prose collections.
https://web.facebook.com/tynoe.wilson
Lowlifediarist Wilson Waison<waison263@gmail.com>

GORATA MIGHTY NTSWABI- Botswana

https://web.facebook.com/gorata.ntshwabi
mightyntshwabi@gmail.com

OKO OWOICHO- Nigeria
oko owoicho<okoowiocho@gmail.com>
https://web.facebook.com/owi.ocho

JAMBIYA KAI- South Africa

JAMBIYA KAI is a cross-over soprano, speaker, published playwright/writer and mentor. Her writings and original songs are awash online through E-zine publications like The Tuck Magazine and Miombo Publishing, You Tube and Reverbnation. And in print through the Daydreamers Journal, Best New African Poets 2019 and Better Together Government Magazine.
Beulah Kleinveldt “holds the trophy” as the 2018 winner of the London based Good News Publishers “All round UK Poetry competion”. She has recorded a number of music albums. Two during her time with renowned international music ministry Vinesong – namely Peace Like a River and I Behold your Glory. Itinerant music minister with Vinesong throughout the United Kingdom and Europe and performed on stages like the Royal Albert Hall and at RCCG Congresses to millions in Lagos and Europe.
Beulah Kay <beulahkay@gmail.com>
https://web.facebook.com/LadyBFK

MOURAD FASKA- Egypt

Mourad Faska <faskamourad96@gmail.com>
https://web.facebook.com/long.mourad


Bright Madziva<britmadziva@gmail.com>
https://web.facebook.com/bright.madziva

LINGIWE PATIENCE GUMBO- Zimbabwe

Patience Gumbo<patiencedear@gmail.com>
https://web.facebook.com/patiencesife

THAMI PRESHAPOINT DITSI- South Africa

THAMAGA DITSI, SouthAfrican Wordsmith born made with traceable experience in the entertainment industry embraced his work as Poet, Rapper, motivational speaker,event management,community developer and radio presenter .Born in Monakato Town ship(Rustenburg) SouthAfrica.He developed his love of entertainment at tender age where he began as rapper and poet in 2007,He later registered his company Kasi koncept krew brand.
https://web.facebook.com/presha.point

MBIZO CHIRASHA- Zimbabwe

Mbizo CHIRASHA, the Author of a Letter to the President. co-Authored Whispering Woes of Ganges and Zambezi. Co-Edited Street Voices Poetry Collection (Germany Africa Poetry Anthology). Co- Editor of the Corpses of Unity Anthology. Associate Editor at Diasporia(n) online. Chief Editor at Time of the Poet Republic. Founding Editor at WomaWords Literary Press. Publisher at Brave Voices Poetry journal. Curator at Africa Writers Caravan. UNESCO-RILA Affiliate Artist at University of Glasgow. 2020 Poet in Residence Fictional Café. 2019 African Fellow, IHRAF.ORG. Project Curator and Co-Editor of the Second Name of Earth is Peace (Poetry Voices Against WAR Anthology). Contributing Essayist to Monk Arts and Soul Magazine. Poetry and writtings appear in FemAsia Magazine ,Wrath -Bearing Tree, Inksweat andtears journal , One Ghana One Magazine, Ofi Press, World Poetry Almanac, Demer Press , Atunis Galaxy poetry online , IHRAF Publishes , The Poet a Day , Bezine.Com , Sentinel UK, Oxford School of Poetry Pamphlet , Africa Crayons, PulpitMagazine,Poetry Pacific, Zimbolicious , Best New Poets ,Poetry Bulawayo , Gramnet webjournal, Diogen Plus , Poeisis.si , Festival de Poesia Medellin and elsewhere .
girlchildcreativity@gmail.com , https://web.facebook.com/mbizo.chirasha/

CAROLINE AKUI-Kenya

https://web.facebook.com/carol.akui.3
caroline akui<carolakui@yahoo.com>

SAMUELLAH CONTEH- Zimbabwe

https://web.facebook.com/samuella.conteh.980

BENEDIXIO MOORE KHOTI-Zambia

Benedixio Moore Khoti( Moses Khoti) is a writer, poet, spoken -word artist,songwriter and a storyteller hailing from the southern part of Africa, Zambia in Particular.He is a professional Engineer to whom writing is an inborn – passion that had at a tender age erupted into passionate flames that he now lives consumed in.To write, he draws his inspiration from the Universe and the beyond’s beyond beyond.His ink spillage is an effluent stream that floods with emphasis on preaching one Love for one mankind and strongly stands against all – manner of injustices. He is an executive member of the International African Writers Association (IAWA) and also a platinum – categorized member of the worlds largest and most active writer’s forum( Motivational Strips) where he holds position as a moderator representing the Zambia Office.He is also a guest contributor to the digital Poetry journal Brave Voices. His works of art have been featured in many anthologies and his writing consistency on themes pioneering peace and love and uplifting humanity has earned Him ambassadorship(Zambia) for Every Child Life – line which is a charity organization with headquarters in Nigeria.He is currently working on a Spoken – word album and his debut Novel.
https://web.facebook.com/mapalomo.kayz ,

AFRICAN POETRY SYMPOSIUM 100 TPC CURATORS

RESIDENT COORDINATOR –Mbizo CHIRASHA, the Author of a Letter to the President. co-Authored Whispering Woes of Ganges and Zambezi. Co-Edited Street Voices Poetry Collection (Germany Africa Poetry Anthology). Co- Editor of the Corpses of Unity Anthology. Associate Editor at Diasporia(n) online. Chief Editor at Time of the Poet Republic. Founding Editor at WomaWords Literary Press. Publisher at Brave Voices Poetry journal. Curator at Africa Writers Caravan. UNESCO-RILA Affiliate Artist at University of Glasgow. 2020 Poet in Residence Fictional Café. 2019 African Fellow, IHRAF.ORG. Project Curator and Co-Editor of the Second Name of Earth is Peace (Poetry Voices Against WAR Anthology). Contributing Essayist to Monk Arts and Soul Magazine. Poetry and writtings appear in FemAsia Magazine ,Wrath -Bearing Tree, Inksweat andtears journal , One Ghana One Magazine, Ofi Press, World Poetry Almanac, Demer Press , Atunis Galaxy poetry online , IHRAF Publishes , The Poet a Day , Bezine.Com , Sentinel UK, Oxford School of Poetry Pamphlet , Africa Crayons, PulpitMagazine,Poetry Pacific, Zimbolicious , Best New Poets ,Poetry Bulawayo , Gramnet webjournal, Diogen Plus , Poeisis.si , Festival de Poesia Medellin and elsewhere .


FOUNDER AND PRODUCER OF 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE

Michael Rothenberg is a poet, editor and publisher of the online literary magazine BigBridge.org, co-founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change (www.100tpc.org), and co-founder of Poets In Need, a non-profit 501(c), assisting poets in crisis. Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Rothenberg moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975 and co-founded Shelldance Orchid Gardens in Pacifica, which is dedicated to the cultivation of orchids and bromeliads. While in Pacifica, he helped lead local environmental actions that stopped major coastal developments that would destroy wildlife habitat. He was co-founder of Pacificans for Mori Point, a grass-roots group that led the battle to stop development of endangered species habitat on Mori Point and Sweeney Ridge, which resulted in the eventual inclusion of these areas in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. He was also on the G.G.N.R.A. Steering Committee, the Board of Directors of the Pacific Land Trust and was founder of the Bromeliad Society International Conservation Committee. Michael has published 20 books of poetry including Nightmare of The Violins, Favorite Songs, Man/Woman (a collaboration with Joanne Kyger), Unhurried Vision, Monk Daddy, The Paris Journals, Choose, My Youth As A Train, Murder (Paper Press 2014), Sapodilla (Editions du Cygne-Swan World, Paris, France, 2016) and Drawing The Shade (Dos Madres Press, 2016). Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story, was published in 2013 by Ekstasis Editions (Victoria, B.C., Canada), and in 2014 by Shabda Press (USA). A Spanish/English edition of Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story, and the poetic journal collection, Tally Ho and the Cowboy Dream/The Real and False Journals: Book 5 are scheduled for publication in 2017 by Varasek Ediciones (Madrid, Spain). .

TIME OF THE POET REPUBLIC-An Internet-based Writers’ Center, archiving theme-based Digital Poetry Anthologies and publishing Iconic Poets, Writers and Artists from around the globe. TIME OF POET REPUBLIC was founded by UNESCO-RILA Affliate ARTIST, Freedom of Speech Fellow PEN-Zentrum Deutschland, 2019 African Fellow ihraf.org and acclaimed Literary Arts Diplomat, Mbizo CHIRASHA.

Poetry Chef Michael Dickel, I would like to thank you and the whole team at Bezine as well the Zine team , you have made me understand the value of family , unity , togetherness and progress. The event was extraordinary, thank you for being the CO-CURATOR and the Tech mentor you are , thus parexcellent . Together We Rise.
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