KUCHE KUCHE TAKE SASF BY STORM

By Susan Mwape
The Southern Africa Social Forum (SASF) participants were yesterday entertained over night by Zambian, Zimbabwean, South African and Malawian artists. The participants looked on and could not leave the dance floor because of the beautiful African music, dances and poems that the flowed endlessly in the room.
The floor was opened by dances from Malawi, the dancers shook their flexible waists until the audience could not help but stand up and assimilate the dances. This was followed by James Chamanyazi from Zambia who entertained the crowd and had them share the stage with him, those that couldn’t manage to get on stage were made to que up and he entertained them to a “fowardy fowardy” dance that he showed them, this took the crowd into a frenzy.
Then came hip hop artists From Zimbabwe and south Africa they were so brilliant they had the crowd singing along and even though hiphoop isn’t easily embraced by the older generations this time they couldn’t help but raise their hands in respect too.
As all this was not enough Mlaka Maliro of Malawi came on stage and this time he had almost the entire audience on their feet, the crowd danced as he dropped one track after another until he couldn’t take it now more, he had sang over fifteen songs but the audience still wasn’t ready to go home.
The audience having had been entertained that much said they were so happy and entertained because they also learnt about different social issues in the process of the entertainment which in turn became edutainment.
This exhibits that entertainment is another very good way of putting your message across for social activists.