By Kirabo Byabashaija (Published originally at My Wandering Journey) With the back of her hand on her lips, she tries to suppress a smile. She finds that this is a little hard to do, as the corners of her lips are being pretty persistent. Her eyes gaze off, outside the window, past the palm trees on … More Kirabo’s First Writivism
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
You will not take it for granted that yet another poetry collection is released in Uganda today. For me, it has been a year of discovering and appreciating poetry from this country. At the beginning of the year, I was privileged to delve into Mulumba’s “Poetry in Motion”, then finally tasting Kagayi’s work in “The … More A Poetic Duet brings out the new from the old.
By Kirabo Byabashaija This must be every parent’s nightmare… Well, actually almost every father’s nightmare. That was my conclusion and I was only 85 words into the 3,465 worded piece. I giggled because I saw my late father written all over Aito’s introduction. Aito spins a tale of old pride in cultures that are slowly … More The List pays tribute to Old Pride in dying cultures
The Writivism Prizes 