The Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) and the Writivism Festival is proud to announce the winner of The Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation. This prize celebrates fifty years since the publication of Okot P’Bitek’s Song of Lawino by awarding poets who write originally in an African indigenous language and translate their own … More WINNER of the 2016 Okot P’Bitek Prize Announced
By Joseph Omotayo for Afridiaspora We Are All Blue is an artful compression of Botswanan history. Almost everything you need to know about that country is in it. How Donald Molosi manages to compress these things marvels me. We Are All Blue is a collection of two plays: Blue, Black and White and Motswana: Africa, … More We Are All Blue probes how history is made
By Sydney Mugerwa Abu Amirah’s Swahilification of Mutembei branches from the common structure I have come to expect in the shortlisted Writivism 2016 short stories I have read and reviewed so far. The Swahilification of Mutembei is a leisurely read, unrushed in its plot progression and pacing in a classic example of form follows function. It took … More Abu Amirah’s The Swahilification of Mutembei requires a second and third reading
In April this year, poet Harriet Anena staged a one person show at Peter Kagayi’s Poetry Shrine. Titled ‘I Bow For My Boobs’, after one of the poems in her collection, ‘A Nation in Labour’, the show was received by some journalists in comparison to Dr. Stella Nyanzi’s protest at Makerere. Such interpretations of Anena’s … More Anena Harriet to bow for her boobs at #Writivism2016
The Writivism Prizes 