Mafitlhakgosi Cultural Group vows to preserve culture

Mafitlhakgosi Cultural Group
Mafitlhakgosi Cultural Group

With new technologies and instruments in place, Botswana is one of the African countries that are slowly but surely losing their culture more especially in the performing arts industry.

However, local cultural group consisting of young and talented individuals, Mafitlhakgosi Cultural Group has decided to take-heed of this problem. According to the coordinator and founder of the group, Joseph Ikopeng said he intends to preserve culture.

In an interview with Showbiz recently, Ikopeng said after realising that Botswana culture was perishing, as a group that is involved in arts and culture they have found it fit to preserve it by teaching young people how to use traditional instruments such as setinkane, marimba, four strings guitar, segaba, drama, traditional dance, Ikalanga dance wosana and others.

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