The Spier poetry exchange was held in Feb this year, it was a formal collaboration between the Africa centre and the Winternachten international literature festival in Hague.
Above: Napo Masheane from Gauteng, she was nominated for the 2005 Daimler Chrysler South african poetry award.

" Afro - it needs no definition, no explanantion, no contradiction, no introspection and definitely no hateration, for it is just what it is Afro says the fashion bible of the house of the holy Afro." from " the afo is africa" poem.