Tag: Jinja International Poetry Festival
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Jinja International Poetry Festival 2025 starts September 26
The Jinja International Poetry Festival 2025, with the theme “Create: The First Step to Freedom,” will be held in Jinja, Uganda, from September 26 – 28, 2025. In 2024, Ugandan poet, editor, scriptwriter, and actor Muganza Keith founded the Jinja International Poetry Festival to celebrate the poetry from one of Western Uganda’s largest cities and…
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Jinja International Poetry Festival 2024 starts October 24.
The inaugural Jinja International Poetry Festival 2024 runs in Jinja, Uganda from October 24 – 27, 2024. The festival theme is “roots.” Uganda is one of the most important literary hubs on the African continent. Some of the writers and poets who have made the East African country proud are Okot p’Bitek, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi,…