Rundu — Somewhere 13 kilometres west of Rundu, along the Rundu-Grootfontein road, in a village called Masivi, you will find a local clay craft artist know as Frans Kawende who makes a lot of things out of clay be it beads, dishes, pots and sculptures. In fact he says he can make anything imaginable out of clay.
Kawende has been doing clay craft for almost his life and he says this trade has been in his family for years. "My grandparents and parents both do clay craft and all the children in the family have the knowledge to do different things that they can design and make with clay," Kawende said.
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