Kebiditswe screens COVID-19 impact

Neo Kebiditswe has shot a film that shows how COVID-19 has affected the playwriting and art industry in the country. 

As a consequence of the COVID-19, the University of Warwick in United Kingdom, commissioned a short film that features Kebiditswe who gave an analysis of the current landscape of playwriting and the arts in Botswana.

The film also features other steering committee members of the AWPN such as Tosin Tume from Nigeria, Philiswe Tjwinstra from South Africa and AWPN founder and patron, Dr. Yvette Hutchinson from UK. The film is an overview of the network’s background, its achievements to date, as well as making the case for the need to support and promote African women playwrights. 

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