Youths dominate Chikwawa Arts and Cultural Festival

The Chikwawa Arts and Cultural Festival second edition held from October 30 to November 1 in Chikwawa District attracted a largely youthful audience.

The festival seeks to preserve culture for the Shire Valley twin districts of Chikwawa and Nsanje, home to the Mang’anja and Sena tribes.

The winner: Kankhande.

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The festival was introduced in 2024 to revive traditional dances such as soopa, ingoma and likwata, traditional foods, storytelling and customs that are slowly fading due to modernisation.

The festival’s lead organiser and chairperson Anganile Ngosi said everything worked as planned.

“We are happy that when we earlier engaged the media to lobby for support, we got positive responses,” he said.

Ngosi said Chikwawa and Nsanje districts are mostly deprived of entertainment, so through the festival communities found time to share talents, mostly the youths.

The festival featured gospel artists such as Silvia Mpende, Triza Mponya, Zembani Band, Joseph Nkasa and up-and-coming artists from the two districts.

This year’s edition was held at Chikwawa Community Ground under the theme ‘Combating mob justice and managing mental health’.

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