Creativity and Enterprise Week
July 2009

Together, the group wrote 2 poems:

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Tutor (Zimbabwe): Albert Nyathi, Lower Six Arts students (Mpopoma High School – Zimbabwe): Lisa Thelma Sidambe, Kevin Bhuru, Year 8: Anika Grzesiak, Florence Fakorede, Adina Hammond, Year 9: Sam Greenslade, Year 10: Salman Momin, Hari Patel, Nasra Wehliye, Jennifer Hall, Djanira Pereira, Robyn Marshall, Layla Salim, Tamara Smith, Louise Everett, Natalia Kucia

A highlight of the week was the visit of a world renowned poet, Albert Nyathi, and two students from Zimbabwe.  For two days he worked with a group of Y8-10 students on poetry, drama and music.

Eighteen months ago, Winchmore established a partnership with Mpopoma High School in Bulawayo as part of the British Council’s Dreams and Teams programme. 

Since then the School has used African Art as a focus for learning at Key Stage 3 and in the work carried out with local primary schools.

Read all about our guest, click here.

Albert Nyathi is Zimbabwe’s premier performance dub-poet. His performances are often backed by powerful music. At school he used to perform traditional praise poetry, but was inspired by the freedom struggle in Zimbabwe. He started to write plays and poems at secondary school. At university in Zimbabwe in the 1980’s he was so influential within the students representative body, that he was invited for each rally or each meeting.

He gave up his rapidly advancing career in government service as a very well informed senior member of Zimbabwe's National Arts Council to concentrate on performance and the development of youth training programmes in the arts in Harare's townships.