Togara Muzanenhamo (Lusaka, 1975) started his career as a journalist and spent several years working for a film script producer until, one day, he chose to start an agricultural company, so he could fully immerse himself in his poetry. As a poet, he prefers living in isolation. He finds the working hours on his farm to be pleasant and structured: he works the land in the mornings and writes poems in the afternoons. The tone of his poems vary from deeply bereaved, when concerning a lost home or father; to carefree and euphoric, when he describes unspoiled, unbought natural landscapes; to resigned, with the realization of how predictable life in the countryside can be.

Togara Muzanhamo appears at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam thanks to the Ludo Pieters Gastschrijvers Fonds. 

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