By
Remote Rodgers
WebTimes Reporter
WHILE the
comfortably
seated
audience waited for Bongani Zindela to deliver his speech on how to get
Africa connected, a group of three
actors pranced into the
auditorium
singing,
dancing and murmuring in Zulu.
“Our aim
was to not to shock. We had come in disguise not as presenters but as
actors,” says Simon Reader, the group’s producer. The group dressed in white
T-shirts, and demonstrated how people should use ICTs to fight poverty. A
bit robust and somewhat risqué.
“We are
the best connectors, we just need the infrastructure. It is not about
protection or correction but about connection,” shouted the
actors:
Zindela, Nadia Kretschmer,
and
Elliot
Makhibo, all from the Johannesburg-based Shoestring Productions.
After the
two-minute shockwave, one audience
member said: “Yes, I was
little bit terrified but I later got into the motion, nothing too bad.
We came to understand
the concept of connectivity through that message.”
“I expected something to come in but little did I know what
was up,” said Charles
Njoroge from Kenya.
“Very interesting:
quite nice-good way of
presenting ideas, I like that,” said Charles Dhewa of Zimbabwe.
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