Tag: Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation
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The Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation 2016 poetry prizes
The Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation has announced a call-out for its prizes for 2016. In previous years, the foundation had the Babishai Poetry Award which has been running since 2009. Previous winners of the prize include Adeeko Ibukun (2015), Tom Jalio (2014), Rashida Namulondo (2013), Susan Piwang (2012), Sanyu Kisaka (2011), Sophie Alal Brenda (2010)…
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Poetry On The Foothills of The Mountains of The Moon
This might just be for folks like me who want to get this whole poetry thing. Of for you who want to get to up your poetry game. Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation, the folks that gave us the only poetry prize we seem to know about around has come together with the Uganda Travel Bureau…
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Babishai Poetry Festival 2015 for Uganda in August
This blog concerns itself with news in the game of prose from the African continent. This is because this blogger has a very bad relationship with poetry; I don’t know how to know whether a poetry anthology is amazing. Unless of course if it is horrible; for some reason I can tell awful poetry from…
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A snapshot of the Uganda International Writers’ Conference 2015
It was all going down in Kampala, Uganda as writers from around the continent converged for the 2015 edition of the Uganda International Writers’ Conference. There was a large number of events from 1st to 6th March with the theme some free and some paid with the theme, Memoir and Truth. Some of the highlights…