Watch this collaborative piece titled Pretty Pink Baggage by poet Prudence Delah Dube (Zim) and digital artist Eugene Ramirez Mapondera (Zimbabwe). This DigiPoem explores the pain of holding onto the bitterness and anger from past heartbreaks.
About the Artists
Prudence D. Dube (Poet)
18 year old Spoken Word artist Prudence D. Dube is a passionate poet, singer/songwriter, film and theatre actress and performing artist. She has won two poetry slams at the Instwasa Arts Festival, won Third Prize in the KhanyisaLit~Fest Harare poetry slam and been crowned a winner of the 2020 Battle of The Cities Poetry Slam. Through her poetry, Prudence seeks to convey messages of peace, hope and boldness whilst also championing human rights.
Eugene Ramirez Mapondera (Digital Artist)
An accomplished animator, illustrator and multimedia designer with over 12 years of experience, Eugene is the Co-Founder of Comexposed. Eugene entered the creative industry in 2007 as a concept artist for advertising agencies such as Upton Fulton And McCann and Barkers Ogilvy in Harare. He quickly leveraged his love for digital media and learnt to animate in 2d and 3d. By 2010 his reputation as a multi-disciplinary digital artist spread as far as Europe and the US where he would later work in art departments for films such as The Secret Princess (2016), and Boston (2014).
About DigiPoems
DigiPoems is a programme that provides digital artists and poets from the UK and Southern Africa an opportunity to co-create new art through experimental digital illustrations, animation, and poetry. DigiPoems is supported by The British Council and delivered in partnership with Comexposed, Page Poetry Alive, Writing West Midlands (UK), BBC Contains Strong Language Festival (UK) and Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 for the third Edition of DigiPoems