Harare International Festival of Arts (HIFA)

"Come and share what makes our nation wonderful; come and share our fraternity and sisterhood; come and share our love of the arts and mankind," HIFA says to the globe.

Another most famous festival in Zimbabwe is the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA). The festival, founded in 1999 by Manuel Bagorro, takes place every year in late April or early May in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital. Theatre, music, dance, fine art, and poetry are all represented throughout the week-long festival.

In a program of theatre, dance, music, circus, street performance, fashion, spoken word, and visual arts, the festival celebrates local, regional, and worldwide arts and culture. HIFA is Zimbabwe's and Africa's greatest arts festival, including performances by musicians such as Senegalese superstar Ishmael Lo, Malian afro-pop singer-songwriter Salif Keita, and South African kwaito trio Bongo Muffin, among others.

HIFA features the finest of local, regional, and worldwide theatre, dance, music, circus, street performance, fashion, spoken word, and visual arts. HIFA has become a symbol of something great about Zimbabwe, bringing together socially and culturally divergent groups of Zimbabweans at a time of ideological struggle and political instability to celebrate something wonderful - the healing and constructive potential of the arts.

The Harare International Festival Of Arts is about art, and it offers light where there was previously only darkness, and hope where there was previously only despair.

Location: Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa

Takes Place: 26th April