Better known as ganyamatope dzapasi, tawona sitholé’s spirit name inspires him to connect with other people through creativity and the anticipation to learn. His work is inherited from ancestors and modified through his professional education practice. He is lecturer in creative practice education at University of Glasgow, within the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and the Arts (UNESCO RIELA). He is co-founder of Seeds of Thought, a non-funded arts group, and continues working in the creative sector as poet, playwright, mbira musician, and facilitator. As he continues to write, teach and perform, mostly he appreciates this work for the many inspiring people it allows him to meet.

Part poem, part play, and part pedagogical invitation, “Learning Abun-dance Through Mutupo” reimagines intercultural learning as a creative practice of relationship, listening, and mutual recognition. Through storytelling, performance, and intercultural dialogue, Sitholé offers a deeply relational and original vision of learning, belonging, and shared futures.

• IntroductionPlayer ProfilesChaptersStage DirectionsKey WordsMutupo the poem name – ExerciseACT 1: A Conversation about MutupoACT 2: Dariro rekutambirwa/ Round of IntimacyACT 3 Dariro rekutambanuka/Round of IntricacyACT 4 Dariro rekutambidzana/ Round of LegitimacyACT 5 Dariro rekutambarara/ Round ofKupeta: Rounding up Madariro ExerciseVana vanotamba: Epilogue Poetic Gifts from ChildrenBeginning of the Next AdventureAppendicesReferencesManja: Acknowledging

Better known as ganyamatope dzapasi, tawona sitholé’s spirit name inspires him to connect with other people through creativity and the anticipation to learn. His work is inherited from ancestors and modified through his professional education practice. He is lecturer in creative practice education at University of Glasgow, within the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and the Arts (UNESCO RIELA). He is co-founder of Seeds of Thought, a non-funded arts group, and continues working in the creative sector as poet, playwright, mbira musician, and facilitator. As he continues to write, teach and perform, mostly he appreciates this work for the many inspiring people it allows him to meet.

Part poem, part play, and part pedagogical invitation, “Learning Abun-dance Through Mutupo” reimagines intercultural learning as a creative practice of relationship, listening, and mutual recognition. Through storytelling, performance, and intercultural dialogue, Sitholé offers a deeply relational and original vision of learning, belonging, and shared futures.

• IntroductionPlayer ProfilesChaptersStage DirectionsKey WordsMutupo the poem name – ExerciseACT 1: A Conversation about MutupoACT 2: Dariro rekutambirwa/ Round of IntimacyACT 3 Dariro rekutambanuka/Round of IntricacyACT 4 Dariro rekutambidzana/ Round of LegitimacyACT 5 Dariro rekutambarara/ Round ofKupeta: Rounding up Madariro ExerciseVana vanotamba: Epilogue Poetic Gifts from ChildrenBeginning of the Next AdventureAppendicesReferencesManja: Acknowledging

Better known as ganyamatope dzapasi, tawona sitholé’s spirit name inspires him to connect with other people through creativity and the anticipation to learn. His work is inherited from ancestors and modified through his professional education practice. He is lecturer in creative practice education at University of Glasgow, within the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and the Arts (UNESCO RIELA). He is co-founder of Seeds of Thought, a non-funded arts group, and continues working in the creative sector as poet, playwright, mbira musician, and facilitator. As he continues to write, teach and perform, mostly he appreciates this work for the many inspiring people it allows him to meet.

Part poem, part play, and part pedagogical invitation, “Learning Abun-dance Through Mutupo” reimagines intercultural learning as a creative practice of relationship, listening, and mutual recognition. Through storytelling, performance, and intercultural dialogue, Sitholé offers a deeply relational and original vision of learning, belonging, and shared futures.

• IntroductionPlayer ProfilesChaptersStage DirectionsKey WordsMutupo the poem name – ExerciseACT 1: A Conversation about MutupoACT 2: Dariro rekutambirwa/ Round of IntimacyACT 3 Dariro rekutambanuka/Round of IntricacyACT 4 Dariro rekutambidzana/ Round of LegitimacyACT 5 Dariro rekutambarara/ Round ofKupeta: Rounding up Madariro ExerciseVana vanotamba: Epilogue Poetic Gifts from ChildrenBeginning of the Next AdventureAppendicesReferencesManja: Acknowledging