Marang Molosiwa goes international
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While the arts industry seems to be hanging on for dear life, with many artists barely able to put bread on the table, a glimmer of hope has shone on one artist.
This glimmer may give hope to other struggling artists that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Doors have opened for Botswanas former child star and television personality, Marang Molosiwa. Molosiwa has been cast in an international drama tv show, MTV Shuga Alone and Together.
The show will be aired online. It has come at a time when the world is fighting Covid-19 scourge, which is one of the issues that the show will be shining light on. I play Bokang from Botswana on the MTV SHUGA mini-series MTV SHUGA Alone Together – Life in Lockdown. I got the role after hearing that MTV SHUGA was looking for a Motswana actress so I sent them my tapes and secured the role. God is amazing.
I am playing the vibrant and energetic Bokang, an aspiring Motswana dancer and model from Botswana,” said Molosiwa.This is the first casting from Botswana. A win for all of us. MTV Shuga is an award-winning multimedia campaign produced by the MTV Staying Alive Foundation. The aim of the series is to share life-saving health information with young people across Southern Africa.
While the drama highlights a series of issues faced by young people in an era faced with sexual reproductive health, Molosiwa could not be happier to be part of the show. Its exciting because this is an opportunity for more Batswana actors to make their mark on the continent. The beauty of MTV SHUGA is that it depicts the similarities in the experiences of young people across Africa hence having a pan-African cast.
All this in an effort to help the audience make more informed decisions to safeguard and protect their sexual reproductive health and rights, she said.??I am looking forward to seeing the impact the show will have on young people locally. I also hope that my casting is an inspiration to Batswana aspiring actors, to show them that it is possible to land a role on an intentional project of this magnitude.
I am excited to see what other opportunities this will give way to.??The show will be available internationally. The episodes are up on the @MTVShuga Instagram and Facebook pages as well as @MTVShuga YouTube channel,” Molosiwa said. In an interview with Joseph Segodi, Communication for Development Officer at UNICEF, he stated that, we have two related projects we are doing with MTV Shuga Staying Alive Foundation and MTV Shuga Down South BW which is a radio drama that is airing locally.
MTV Shuga Alone Together is a TV drama focusing on COVID-19 and young people’s sexual reproductive health. Marang is cast for the MTV Shuga Alone Together which brings different cast from Africa.” He further highlighted that, MTV-SAF brought in different cast from their previous productions across Africa playing similar roles, now interacting with each other online due to COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing.
They also added new cast, and Marang is one of the new cast (now including Botswana) on the list of participating countries. Marang is an entirely new cast just like Naak MuziQ, they both came on board at the same time.
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