September 23, 2016 Storymoja Ghana Festival Accra, Ghana I am pleased to announce “Lost Futures Or: A Guide to Losing Love” by S.Y. Tetteh as the 2016 Kofi Addo Prize winner. It is a piece that yanks you in with its memorable voice and well-crafted prose, and holds you tight with an open, multi-layered, haunting tale … More S. Y. Tetteh Wins First Kofi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction
Kirabo Byabashaija has been enjoying Oduor Jagero’s The Ghosts of 1894 too much. In the review, published as part of the 2016 Africa Reading Challenge, she says: This gripping thriller will hook it’s unrelenting claws into you and keep you turning her pages. There are some tiny details that did often wake me from my reverie, like … More Is Kabale more Rural than Busia?
By Sydney Mugerwa I always wanted to get into the mind of a writer. What soup do they stir in the kettle of their mind? From where do they purchase the condiments, those sweet smelling words, that aroma they infuse in their works. What words, what authors, do they look upon and say, that one right … More What the 2016 Writivists Read and Love
At SunDown, as the Red Sun was calling it a day, the scissor hands of a dying god stretched through the ether to snuff out the light and plunge us into a void of darkness. Resolute. Victorious, the death claws retreated into the otherworld from whence it came, leaving behind a night chill and those unperturbed steadfast black-and-white … More Curtain falls
The Writivism Prizes 