March Issue #7
Seasonality: Embracing Change and Remaining Unchanged
What’s Inside 👀
Royalty and Service: ‘Mapitso Molebatsi Rivera's Presidential Award 🥇👑
Nkeletseng, Episode 1: Weather, Food, and Missing Family ❄️🥣
“Seen, Heard, Engaged”- The Children's Summit is A Glimmer of Hope For The Forgotten 🚸🗣️
Arti Corner, Episode 4: Interview with Katleho Monyako 🎨✍️
Sounds of Home: 6 Songs by Basotho Artists to Add to Your Playlist This Week. ✍️💃
From the Editorial Desk 🖥️✍🏿
Kamor’a nako e telele, babali ba khabane!
What’s the weather like where you are, moratuoa?
Regardless of which hemisphere you are in as you read this, you are likely on the cusp of different seasons. Ka Northern Hemisphere ka mona, lifate li qalile ho thunya; ha ka Southern Hemisphere, re sa itšoarellelitse ka Hoetla pele Mariha a kena. In putting this issue together, we found that there is so much to learn from how the world shifts when seasons change. We have been reflecting on the value of paying attention to moments of transition because they tend to be both periods of great vulnerability and periods of potential growth. In the many aspects of our lives, it is important to discern the seasons. Those brief periods of transitions — every bud, every browning leaf — are an opportunity to acknowledge change. To brace for winter and prepare for summer.
Pause and take stock of the seasons you’re in. Seasonality — in nature and beyond — is such a complex experience, one of the very few we all get to go through together! What a thing that, wherever you are, you can see that things truly do change, and at the same time, change remains steady and unwavering.
Ba tsena,
Nthatisi Bulane, Lerato Mensah-Aborampah, Lehlohonolo Tefo Tlhaole, ‘Matlhabeli Molaoli, Makhethe Vuma le Monwabisi Qeki.
PS: We’re starting an advice column! Is there a dilemma you’ve been thinking about or a situation you’d like an outside perspective on? Like, what should I gift my neighbor back home when I visit in December? Kapa, libundle tsa Sekhooa li felile joale mochesi oa ka ke lekhooa. Ask ausi Dia(spora)!
Royalty and Service: ‘Mapitso Molebatsi Rivera's Presidential Award
Last year, the Lesotho Diaspora Newsletter caught wind of the great news that one of our own, a Mosotho-South African-American, had been awarded the Presidential Lifetime Award by President Joe Biden.
Nkeletseng v1: Weather, Food and Missing Family
This is episode 1 of a new series we’re starting. What’s the weirdest way someone has spelled your name? What’s something you wish you knew before you left Lesotho? What’s one way you’ve made a new home since you left home?
“Seen, Heard, Engaged”- The Children's Summit is A Glimmer of Hope For The Forgotten.
In a world that is continuously growing and changing due to globalization, the internet, artificial intelligence, and technology, there seems to be one group of people that gets neglected with every progress. How do we see the world in the coming 10-20 years? Who will be leading the world then, and who will be most affected by the decisions we make toda…
ArtiCorner, Episode 4 - Artist Talk with Katleho Monyako
In this captivating episode of our artist talk-style podcast, we sit down with Katleho Monyako, a talented Mosotho artist specializing in 3D and VFX. Monyako has gained significant international recognition through his participation in the prestigious Création Africa program, supported by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
Sounds of Home: 6 Songs by Basotho Artists to Add to Your Playlist This Week.
Sounds of Home, a subsection of our newsletter in which we highlight fresh music from Lesotho through candid interviews with our local musicians and playlists for your listening pleasure.