Tag: Babishai Poetry Festival
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Lillian Akampurira Aujo on Babishai Foundation 10th year celebration.
The Babishai Niwe Foundation celebrated their tenth anniversary starting on World Poetry Day 2019 on March 21, 2019. The team led by founder Beverley Nambozo celebrated with a retreat to Kabale, Uganda with several poets in tow for the Babishai Poetry Festival 2019. Lillian Akampurira Aujo who was the first winner of the Babishai Poetry…
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African Literary Festivals you can attend in 2019
Covering the length and breadth of the continent, here is a list of African literary festivals you can attend in 2019. This list is regularly updated as and when information becomes available. 2018 was a very literary festival-filled year for Africa. East Africa had a variety of festivals including the Hargeysa International Book Fair, the…
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A snapshot of Uganda’s Babishai Poetry Festival 2017
The Babishai Poetry Festival 2017 was hosted in Uganda from August 4-6, 2017. There was a sea of activity in Uganda as the world of African poetry was focused on the East African country. They were there for the third edition of the Babishai Poetry Festival which was started in Kampala in 2015 as an…
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Uganda’s Babishai Poetry Festival 2017 set for August
The Babishai Poetry Festival 2017, the third for the organisers, is set for Uganda in August 4-6. The Babishai Poetry Festival was first hosted in Kampala in 2015. That festival was the natural growth of the Babishai Niwe Poetry Prize which was born as the Beverley Nambozo Poetry Prize in 2008 as a prize for…
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Adeeko Ibukun wins the Babishai Niwe Poetry Award 2015
The Babishai Niwe Poetry Award for 2015 where an African poet goes home with $1000 went to Adeeko Ibukun for his poem “A Room With A Drowning Book.” The poetry award which was the highlight of the Babishai Poetry Festival was handed out by the President of the Association of Nigerian Authors Prof Remi Raji…
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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…