Poets leave for Germany

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Poets Robson “Shoez” Lambada and Fungai Machirori left for Munster, Germany on Thursday night to represent the country at the Digital Participation Youth Summit.

Poets Robson “Shoez” Lambada and Fungai Machirori left for Munster, Germany on Thursday night to represent the country at the Digital Participation Youth Summit.

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The summit hosts over 70 word designers, programmers and campaign strategists from across the world. Shoez, who is a co-founder of Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights told Standardlife&style before his departure that he would make a presentation on youth participation in political issues.

“I am going to make a presentation on the strategies we have been using as Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights to bring about transparency and youth participation in political issues,” he said.

The organisation has been using poetry to advocate for peace and democracy in different areas around the country. He added that the summit was aimed at developing a digital tool to foster youth participation in governmental issues in the represented countries.

“We are supposed to develop a digital tool to foster meaningful youthful participation in political issues after the forthcoming harmonised elections,” he said.

Shoez will also perform at the Annual Intercultural Summer Party, which runs parallel to the summit together with Germany-based Chirikure Chirikure.

During his two week stay Shoez will also be a guest poet at one of the biggest poetry slams in Munster, the Tartworth Poetry Slam before embarking on a schools workshop which will be held at Schiller Gymnasium and surrounding schools.

Machirori, who is the founder of Her Zimbabwe will make a presentation on how she has been tackling women related issues using digital tools through her organisation at the summit.