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Maifala’s sidestep choice turns into affection

Maifala says she is contemporary expressionist and paints realistic subjects in a distorted format
Maifala says she is contemporary expressionist and paints realistic subjects in a distorted format

While becoming an artist was merely a side step for Naledi Maifala, the 30-year-old fine artist had no idea that this would lead to an intense bond with her paintings.

Maifala, who hails from Goo-tau village in the Tswapong area, says her first interaction with the world of art was during her junior secondary school days when she opted to do Art as one of her elective subjects.

Although she has yet to venture full-time into art, which she says she plans to do in the near future, she believes that she has fully fallen in love with the paint. “I took Art as an elective during my junior years of schooling. Little did I know it was the beginning of an intimate relationship with paints, and have only started doing it professionally in 2022,” Maifala said in an interview with Arts&Culture.

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Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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