Tag: Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva

  • A snapshot of Uganda’s Babishai Poetry Festival 2017

    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…

  • Ugandan Women Poets; take back your power – Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva

    Ugandan Women Poets; take back your power – Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva

    Babishai Niwe founder and coordinator Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva makes an official World Poetry Day statement. How do we take back our power if we never knew we had it in the first place? In 2009, when the first Ugandan annual women’s BN poetry prize was awarded to Lillian Aujo, it was a novelty. It was a…

  • Babishai Poetry Festival 2015 for Uganda in August

    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…

  • A snapshot of the Uganda International Writers’ Conference 2015

    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…

  • Ake Festival assures guests on Ebola, has cool artist line up

    Ake Festival assures guests on Ebola, has cool artist line up

    So you heard about Ebola and how it is terrorising the Western part of this continent no? Well, it’s concerning many people who want to head to that part of our rock for whatever reason. Well, even the literature world is not spared as two of the biggest literary festivals were lined up for Nigeria;…