Hosana Wosana at Mantlwaneng Theatre
Thursday, December 03, 2015

Part of the Hosanna Wosana cast
Hosanna Wosana is a musical, which celebrates Botswana through Kalanga spiritual music systems of Hosana, Sangoma and Mancomane. The story follows Christian missionaries’ first contact with the people of Southern Africa. It explores social communities’ values and needs. While fictitious, it covers a fictitious tribe of Baka-Habangana, whose chief was the first to convert to Christianity.
This happens at a time when the chief’s daughter is due for “ukuthwasa” (initiation) as a Hosana (the communal rain prayers intercessor). At the advice of the newly commissioned local pastor and her nuns, the chief forbids his daughter from going for initiation, thus putting to test a long standing Kalanga tradition that refusal warrants pain, suffering and subsequent death of the due “inthwasa” or “Bonga”.
Our youth are perishing; their once hopeful bright future is going down the drain; all because of illicit drugs.It is very easy to blame the addict, but it is not as simple as that! Drug dealing is a very lucrative business for some shameless people amongst our society and as such they have come up with tight strategies on how to push their business.Drug addiction is bad, and while the individual on drugs sometimes might have been the one who...