It's festival time in Maun!

The Maun carnival has given way to a three-day Maun Festival which will be the biggest ever to be held in north-western Botswana .

Desmond Green, the organiser, said the festival will be offering live entertainment from music through to poetry, theatre and dance and “will be a celebration of music, culture and crafts in the tourism capital of Botswana .” Green said the event – to be staged from April 30 to May 2 – will reflect on all communities in the north-west, and be a major drawcard for tourists as well as talent. There will be an official opening on April 30, followed the next day by a motorcade and a parade of floats through the streets. Green said that government departments, communities and organisations had thrown their weight behind the event. The Maun carnival was revived last year by Green after being discontinued for several years – “Maun is now ready to host a major event and the Maun Festival is the vehicle with which to do so,” Green said.