Zimbabwe: Artists Want to Meet With Kirsty Coventry

Arts stakeholders are seeking to meet newly-appointed Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation minister Kirsty Coventry to present recommendations from recent consultative meetings organised by Africa Innovation Trust (AIT) in a bid to reinvigorate the slowly sinking sector.

The efforts to meet Coventry come in the wake of allegations that her predecessor Kazembe Kazembe fast-tracked the launch of an arts and culture policy that the sector is not happy with. Artistes say formulation of the new policy, which was done during Kazembe's seven-month stint, did not have their input and lacks the depth required to enable it to address many issues besetting creatives.

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