The trust has been at the heart of promoting the development of the Hip hop dance culture in Zimbabwe for the past three years, with initiatives at school and national level.
Organisers say the festival is “the world cup for street dance”, which celebrates unique break dancing in a non-racial environment, at the same time fostering youth development.
Eight African countries including Mauritius, Seychelles, Morocco, Algeria, South Africa and Nigeria will participate.
BOTY began in Hanover, Germany. Its uniqueness is the battle between break-dance crews as opposed to individual break-dancers.
It focuses on B-Boy, an acrobatic element of Hip Hop dancing that allows a dancer to freely express himself through various well-coordinated moves. The dance form has spread worldwide and has done more to bring young people from all corners closer together than anything else.
Regional qualifying tournaments, also known as preliminaries, are held worldwide culminating the World Finals event, usually held in Germany.
Boty Africa will be judged by B-boy Crazy of Crazy Force Crew, Switzerland, Dujon Cullingford from New Zealand, Emile Jansen from South Africa and Edric Godzongere from Zimbabwe.
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