Thoughts On Voting And Politics (III) - Botswana, Imagine Yourself Again

Monday, October 15, 2018

On the evening of September 24, 2018, Donald Molosi, Botswana’s renowned writer and performer, popularly known for his stage plays, Blue Black and White about Botswana’s "Colour Bar" love story, and Today it’s Me, about Philip Lutaaya’s journey with HIV/AIDS as an African and an artist, staged a reading of his off broadway show, Motswana.

At the end of the reading, the players all stand up and chant, “Botswana, imagine yourself again”.

The play itself is about a lot of things, not the least of which are the intersections and diversity of identities in Africa, but really in Botswana.

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