{"id":27747,"date":"2024-11-05T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27747"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T06:30:39","slug":"tumaini-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tumaini-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Tumaini Festival?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Tumaini Festival:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Founded in 2014<\/strong>, the Tumaini Festival is a cultural event held annually within the <strong>Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>only festival of its kind<\/strong> in the world that is <strong>held within a refugee camp.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The festival is <strong>organized and managed by refugees<\/strong>, creating a platform for displaced people that fosters community, solidarity, and cultural exchange.<\/li>\n<li>The Tumaini Festival attracts thousands of attendees every year and features performances by acts from all around the world.<\/li>\n<li>The festival showcases a diverse array of artistic expressions, including music, dance, theater, and visual arts.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>received a Cultures of Resistance Award (CoR Award) in 2024.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Malawi:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>landlocked country<\/strong> in <strong>Southeastern Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It covers an area of 118,484 sq. km.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It shares <strong>borders with Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital: Lilongwe<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major languages: English and Chichewa<\/strong> (both official)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Currency: Malawi kwacha<\/strong> (MWK)<\/li>\n<li>Endowed with spectacular highlands and extensive lakes, it <strong>occupies a narrow,<\/strong> curving <strong>strip of land along the East African Rift Valley.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lake Nyasa<\/strong> (<strong>one of the deepest lakes i<\/strong>n the world), known in Malawi as <strong>Lake Malawi,<\/strong> accounts for more than <strong>one-fifth of the country\u2019s total area<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Malawi remains one <strong>of the poorest countries<\/strong> in the world. The economy is heavily dependent on <strong>agriculture<\/strong>, which <strong>employs over 80% of the population<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Dzaleka Refugee Camp:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>only permanent refugee camp in Malawi.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was established in 1994 in <strong>response to <\/strong>a surge of forcibly displaced people fleeing <strong>genocide, violence, and wars in Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo<\/strong> (DRC).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>For the past 30 years, the camp has received refugees and asylum seekers from Somalia, Ethiopia, and other countries.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is the Cultures of Resistance Award (CoR Award)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Cultures of Resistance (COR) Award was launched in 2020 by activist, filmmaker, and founder\/director of the Cultures of Resistance (COR) Network, Iara Lee, a Brazilian of Korean descent. The awards are conferred in recognition of proactive, creative citizens\/organizations connected to positive change<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/malawi-festival-unites-refugees-and-locals\/article68825927.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Malawi festival unites refugees and locals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 2014, the Tumaini Festival is a cultural event held annually within the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}