FORUM ON EUROPEAN CULTURE
31 may - 4 june 2023
Lisette Ma Neza is a slam poet, and much more than that. She received various prizes for her poetry that she describes as “a quest for identity”, balancing her life as a resident of Brussels, as a Dutch person, as a young woman with roots in Rwanda. In 2017 she became Belgian Champion Slam Poetry and in 2018 she won silver at the European Championship and also at the Rio Poetry Slam Championship in Rio de Janeiro. In the meantime, she is completing her film studies in Brussels. With her band, she is now touring her first full-length poetry show for the coming year. Her performances balance between painfully direct and naive and often grab the audience by the throat.
Lisette Ma Neza contributes to Afropean on 18 September at 8:00 pm.