Monday 10 September 2018

TERRAINS AND ECHOES OF A CHILD FOR THE FUTURE: a Poetic Hope for the Youth

TERRAINS AND ECHOES OF A CHILD FOR THE FUTURE: a poetic hope for the youth
A child’s heart,
Pure and true with its dedications,
With a love without doubts, fears and hesitations.
A child’s eyes,
So clear with untainted visions.
No colors, genders, religion or any divisions.
Should a child
Be jaded with worldly preparations
With our selfish desires and rage filled motivations?
Should a child
Be jailed for deviance and delinquent sessions
When crime caresses their intimate hungry bellies and angry faces?

Let nature define its real senses of culture
Before eyes of human could deceive their own.
Let shine be the day for the sun to brighten our path ahead before noon.
Let time tell its own
Story of our struggles and huddles for centuries and memories ahead of the full moon,
To allow the soul to remain in-touch with Mother Nature.
Blend compassion with the nation’s traditions and culture.
Let both pride and humility mold character to mature.
Muzzle not their joy with life’s suffocating pressure
Without measure.
What will the future behold for them as treasures
From the past when societies rebuke their sense of the world order?

Our dreams are granted
Joy and pride with songs chanted
Behind echoes of native drums in hands for freedom of the innocent child in stranded
Days of the dark nights. As though nights would render us vulnerable
Beings at ease. Away from just being victims of our forefathers’ struggle
To humble our hearts from shackles of this earth unbuckled…
As memories of their struggles
Serve as a step forward and not a shackle.
Train them well so as not to be barren hens that cackle.
Let them dream and hope despite the walls they tackle.
Be wise and guide them through, soothingly, not whip drivers that rankle.
Let their hands spread further to reach out to their potential beyond a jungle…

The youth are the roots from seeds and
Leaves of trees of this abundant mother earth,
To sustain our nations on pillars of their off springs from birth
As they crawl and walk,
As they learn how to talk
And speak in tongues of our ancestral soul from toes
And knees they kneel,
To feel and make sense of this world
Under their foot when winter winds withered.
Dusty days surrounding their soils before rains to a seeker,
The great rainmakers of our ancient times when sacred belief had thicker
Walls beneath hearts of dozen nations in deserts, jungles and rivers…

The youth— a fragile seed that the past has planted.
The present shall nourish to fruitfulness warranted.
Future is the hope where love and wisdom are founded.
And passed on to generations of youth as enlightened
Leaders; our dreams are granted.
They gathered for survival from the wild land.
At night they gathered
Around the fireplace in winter to listen
To our great grand fathers and mothers
Narrating stories from the past, present
And lessons to learn for days ahead of their wanders.
This poem shall continue to speak to nations until words begin to age across their blunders.

Poem written by Lilian D. Kunamisa [Philipines] and Onalethuso P.B.M Ntema [Botswana].
©09/09/2018

Photo credit: Richard A. Smith PhD [Australia].
Picture courtesy of a Ciperu cultural song and dance interactive welcome/goodbye session at Lwaavo Arts & Cultural centre, Mabele village, Botswana, July 2018.

Friday 6 July 2018

Camping Equipment Hire Kasane

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an article on the Telegraph newspaper, 2018

the annual 1River 1People Music and Lifestyle Festival - Boat Cruise session

Shirwe KT Chendo and Mambo Ntema from Matsaudi village - meeting in Kasane at AfriCan Arts & Crafts stall owned and operated by OPN Group of Companies.  





an article Greavesey Does Botswana by Jon Greaves on Focus Magazine, UK, 2017.



















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Tuesday 21 March 2017

African Arts & Crafts - Cultural Tours Kasane

African Arts & Crafts is an open market art/craft business trading under OPN Group of Companies (Pty) LTD, operating on an open space situated in Kasane township –  adjacent to the world’s diversity wildlife reserve; the Chobe National Park, at the confluence of Chobe and Zambezi rivers, along Caprivi strip (Namibia), and 70km from Livingstone (Zambia) and Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe). Our products range from the African perspective, and the seasonal business opportunities emanating from our strategic geographical location and the tourist mobility during peak season (March to September).


African Arts & Crafts creates, collects and sells (also distribute) art and craft from Botswana, mostly from Okavango delta (Maun, Sexaxa, Matsaudi, Sankuyo, Etsha, Gumare, Shakawe), Chobe (Kasane, Mabele, Kavimba, Kachikau, Parakarungu, Kazungula and Lesoma), Central (Mathangwane, Xere, Mmea, Shoshong, Sefhophe). To complement our patriotic Africanism, we also collect stone, wood, wire and batiks from Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe to have a culturally diverse souvenir shop.


The Manager, Mr. Ntema is the co-founding member and Coordinator of Chobe Alliance for Arts Organisation (CAAO); a creative cultural tourism hub in Kasane, Botswana (www.facebook.com/creativecaao). 

Gofaone Muyoba is the operations hand at ilanga Tours.
 1River1People 2016

Creative Chobe Tourism

We are located adjacent to the world’s diversity wildlife reserve; the Chobe National Park (Botswana, Africa), at the confluence of the mighty Chobe and Zambezi rivers, along Caprivi strip (Namibia), and 70km from Livingstone (Zambia) and Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe). Our creative cultural experience packages offer an ultimate African cultural exchange and travel.

SAFARi PACKAGES: Mobile Camping Safari, Boat Cruises, Fishing Excursions, Lunch Cruises (floating restaurant), Game Drives, Victoria Falls Day trip (Zimbabwe).

DESTINATIONS: Chobe National Park, Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, Nxai Pan, Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

CULTURAL PERFORMANCES: Folk-Jazz/Native music acoustics. Native Drumming. Poetry Book Reading Sessions & Recital. Orator/Storytelling, Traditional Song & Dance.

ART & CRAFTS: Palm Leaves Products (baskets,necklaces). Wire Art. Wooden. Beadwork. Metal. Stone. Visual Art. Poetry Books & Postcards.

CULTURAL EXCURSiONS: Mabele Village Cultural Tour. Tour de Kasane. Impalila island Tour (Namibia).

CULTURAL FESTIVALS, LIFESTYLE EVENTS: 1River 1People Dancehall Cruise (April, July, September and December annually), Vanzovu Cultural Festival (February annually), Chobe International Arts Festival, KAZA Cultural Festival, Art in the Park.


Creative Chobe Tourism

This blog is a creative cultural travel and tourism package of activities that create an ultimate African creative experience and cultural exchange. It is a tourism diversification product that infuses nature, wildlife and culture. We offer Boat Cruise in Chobe river, Game Drive in Chobe National Park, Mobile Camping Safaris, Victoria Falls Day Trip (Zimbabwe), Village Walks and Cultural Tours, Storytelling, Folk-Jazz acoustics, Native Drumming, Traditional Song & Dance, Poetry.

Creative Safari Gallery

Creative Safari Gallery
Creative Cultural Tourism Chobe