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Doek Arts Trust patron justice Dave Smuts says artists are undervalued in Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n He was speaking at the first day of the Doek Literary Festival on Wednesday.<\/p>\n He emphasised that at least for Namibia, there is the constitutional right of freedom of expression.<\/p>\n “I’ve learned from many of you that have come here, and in other traditions that is not the case. Not only are the writers there underappreciated but down right threatened and intimidated,” Smuts said.<\/p>\n Doek! Literary Magazine co-founder and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Doek Arts Trust patron justice Dave Smuts says artists are undervalued in Africa. He was speaking at the first day of the Doek Literary Festival on Wednesday. He emphasised that at least for Namibia, there is the constitutional right of freedom of expression. “I’ve learned from many of you that have come here, and in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,49359,724,257,49360,254,34625],"class_list":["post-179139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-artisst","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-smuts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-undervalued"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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