Tag: World Poetry Day
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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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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…