Meet talented Mokwena praise-poet, Sesianyane

That is the self praise-poem of one of the most reputable young praise-poets in Botswana, Dipako Sesianyane of Molepolole's Ga Ranta ward. Like most artists, the 37-year-old poet says that poetry is a gift from God, an inborn talent.

"I realised that I had the potential to be an artist by chance when one day in 1983 a teacher by the name of Mma Nwako got into our class and asked us if one of us was a poet. I naughtily raised my hand because I thought I might as well be a poet since I had often heard my father recite praise poems of his cattle as he drove them," the poet told Arts & Culture in an interview.