Tag: Beverley Nambozo
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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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Babishai to celebrate 10th anniversary on World Poetry Day 2019.
The Babishai Niwe Foundation is set to celebrate its tenth anniversary on World Poetry Day 2019 which is March 21, 2019. Ten years ago, Ugandan poet Beverley Nambozo came up with an idea that would revolutionise poetry in her country. She set up an organisation and an award scheme with her name to celebrate the…
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YouTube Videos from the Storymoja Festival 2015
So I have finally uploaded all the videos that I took at the Storymoja Festival 2015 that happened this month. The videos were taken over a two day period on the Saturday and Saturday with a Samsung J7 which I am still learning how to use. Therefore the quality of the videos isn’t world class…
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Storymoja Festival 2015: Blog numbero uno
The Storymoja festival was in high gear at its new venue the Nairobi Arboretum. The activities were mainly targeted at the younger Kenyan population to get them to understand the importance of reading. Schoolchildren attended the festival from Wednesday to Friday and were wowed by Reading Ambassadors like Sauti Sol and Anto Neosoul. In addition,…
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Images from the Uganda International Writers’ Conference 2015
So I gave a snapshot from the 2015 edition of the Uganda International Writers’ Conference on Wednesday. Here are images from the organisers who had invited a huge number of authors. Thanks organisers!
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Beverley Nambozo’s anthology A Thousand Voices Rising now available in Nairobi
Beverley Nambozo is famous as the Ugandan who set up the BN Poetry Award. This prize which started in 2009 had humble ambitions; to celebrate and promote the poetry genre in Uganda. The prize is now continental and just recently announced a new board that included Sahro Ahmed Koshin, a Somali-Dutch poet and founder of…