A spectacle of culture

As the world celebrated International Culture Day last Friday, the village of Mmopane, on the outskirts of Gaborone, was abuzz with action.

Throngs of people converged at the village Kgotla for a culture spectacle that took many back into history.

Men and women from different wards offered the crowd a synopsis of how life was in the olden days. Each ward walked into the open space carrying traditional foods and utensils and other tools used in the olden days like the hand plough.

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