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Amazwi

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About Me

Amazwi, a volunteer-driven arts organization, utilizes vehicles of storytelling to build upon and strengthen its founding pillars of empowerment, preservation, and education. Amazwi is a South African nonprofit organization supported by an American 501(c)(3), The Amazwi Foundation. Amazwi, meaning "voices" in Zulu, is based in rural Limpopo, South Africa.
Amazwi has three main projects to achieve its mission:
1. The Amazwi School of Media Arts;
2. Amazwi Writers and Artists Residency Program;
3. Amazwi Writers: publishers of a.magazine and the Amazwi Villager.
Amazwi is committed to increasing the voices of rural women in all forms of media. In every step we take, Amazwi works to teach women the power of the pen and the power of amazwi.
Visit www.amazwi.org for more information.
Amazwi is proud to be sponsored by The Lonely Planet Foundation
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
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My Interests

South Africa, African literature, creative nonfiction, media, journalism, photojournalism, personal narrative and memoir, photography, travel.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interested in... Africa, writing, media and journalism, creative nonfiction, memoir, the arts, rural and women's issues, international development, travel.

and of course, friends and family of Amazwi volunteers!

Books:

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, A Long Walk to Freedom, My Traitor's Heart, Country of My Skull, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Hot Type, One Woman One Hustle, Unanswered Cries

Heroes:

Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Alexandra Fuller, Chimananda Adichie, Mikhael Subotzky, Philip Gourevich, Nick Kristoff, Tom French

My Blog

Amazwi Villager Online Launches

Hello friends!I wanted to announce the launch of Amazwi Villager Online, a welcome addition to the monthly print newspaper.Please head over to to the site to take a look when you can: www.amazwivillag...
Posted by Amazwi on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:44:00 PST

Amazwi Villager Welcomes Five Interns

The Amazwi Villager is excited to welcome five interns to staff the Hoedspruit-based publication in 2008. The women and their respective beats are: Linky Matsie, Education and Arts & Entertainment...
Posted by Amazwi on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:26:00 PST

Amazwi SOMA Class of 2007 Graduates

Hoedspruit, South Africa --Amazwi was thrilled today to celebrate the graduation of 13 women from the Amazwi School of Media Arts (SOMA) in Hoedspruit, South Africa.Graduates completed SOMA's intense ...
Posted by Amazwi on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:02:00 PST

Amazwi Celebrates South Africas Heritage Day

Heritage Day, 24 September, was established in the 1990s to recognise and celebrate the many cultures, languages, and colours that come together to make the Republic of South Africa so beautiful.Today...
Posted by Amazwi on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:00:00 PST

The Amazwi Villager goes paperlessbuy a copy online today!

Go paperless and purchase the Amazwi Villager on www.lulu.com. For 3.00 USD you can purchase the first issue of Amazwi SOMA's quarterly (regional) publication in electronic form (pdf/ebook).Click here...
Posted by Amazwi on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:57:00 PST

Happy Birthday, Madiba&89.

Amazwi wishes Nelson Mandela a very happy and healthy 89th birthday."Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Posted by Amazwi on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:50:00 PST

Amazwi Accepting Volunteer Applications until 1 June

We are accepting applications for long-term volunteers until 1 June!! Spend a year in South Africa as an Amazwi volunteer. Long-term volunteers are provided with room & board as well as a modest month...
Posted by Amazwi on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:00:00 PST

501c3cast Podcast Features Amazwi

Amazwi was recently profiled in a podcast by 501c3cast.com. You can download the podcast on iTunes or 501c3cast.com. Please support Amazwi and take a listen today!
Posted by Amazwi on Tue, 29 May 2007 12:51:00 PST

Pulitzer Prize Winner Teaches Workshop at Amazwi

American Journalist Thomas French Visits Hoedspruit During Trip to Southern AfricaHoedspruit, South Africa - 6 April 2007 - "Avuxeni! Minjani?" said Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French, gr...
Posted by Amazwi on Tue, 29 May 2007 12:48:00 PST

School of Media Arts for Women Opens in Hoedspruit

--Amazwi School of Media Arts provides rigorous, 10-month journalism certificate program--Hoedspruit, South Africa -- 9 March, 2007 -- Less than two months ago, 10 volunteersfrom the United States, Un...
Posted by Amazwi on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:34:00 PST