Tag: Kagayi Peter
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Chris Adwar, Kagayi Ngobi’s day at Goethe Kenya’s Artistic Encounters.
Chris Adwar and Kagayi Ngobi were the featured guests at Goethe Kenya’s Artistic Encounters on April 24, 2019. In Artistic Encounters, two artists of different genres meet and create an art experience of their combined work then share it with the audience. The popular series founded in 2017 by author and publisher Zukiswa Wanner has…
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Kagayi Peter, Chris Adwar for Goethe’s Artistic Encounters on April 24.
Kagayi Peter and Chris Adwar will be the featured artists at the Artistic Encounters series at the Goethe Institut in Nairobi on April 24, 2019. The evening will be conducted by series creator Zukiswa Wanner. In Artistic Encounters, two artists of different genres meet and create an art experience of their combined work then share…
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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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Kagayi Peter launches poetry collection in Kampala
There was a festive mood in Kampala as poet Kagayi Peter launched his debut poetry collection The Headline That Morning on 8th June 2016. The National Theatre in Kampala was the site for the launch for the debut collection of Kagayi Peter last Wednesday. It was also the day that the Museveni government was fulfilling…
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Sooo Many Stories to launch Kagayi Peter’s poetry collection
Sooo Many Stories, Uganda’s newest publishing house, is set to launch Kagayi Peter’s poetry collection in June. Sooo Many Stories, run by the irrepressible Nyana Kakoma, was introduced to many of us as a blog which unashamedly promoted content from Uganda. The blog was on the cutting edge on all that was literature of all…
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Pemi Aguda is first Writivism Stellenbosch University writing residency recipient
Pemi Aguda is the first recipient of the new residency for African writers announced today by the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) and South Africa’s Stellenbosch University English department. This new residency for emerging African Writers gets basic funding from the Miles Morland Foundation with the university supporting the programme in kind. Apart from…
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Shake up as Writivism gets new coordinators
Writivism, the movement aimed at bringing the writing game to the centre of the African narrative largely based in Kampala has a new team running things. They announced the new team yesterday but I was busy following deadline day on the English Premier League and therefore did nothing much. Yes, my Arsenal didn’t buy anyone…