1. Last week, over at the Storymoja blog where different bloggers are in conversation, I wrote about how we can fit our local languages into the texts that we write in English and whether we should be worried at all about the different Englishes we speak and how they will be received. Here is the post with some very insightful comments.
What are your thoughts?
2. While we are still trying to figure out our local languages and their audiences, Serubiri Moses asks whether Lugaflow can represent Uganda nationally or internationally in the same way Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart represents Nigeria nationally and internationally. Read more on this at the Bakwa Magazine website.
3. I was first introduced to Wole Soyinka in high school when we did The Trials of Brother Jero. I remember some of the characters like Amope so vividly as though I read the book just yesterday. The literary world is celebrating his 80 years in which he has come to be known as a playwright, poet and Nobel laureate. Here is a tribute: Soyinka at 80: Fully Humanized, Totally Dis-alienated.
4. Have you read Aleya Kassam’s A Kenyan in Cambodia?
You should. Here it is.
5. Last week, BN Poetry Award announced their 2014 Longlist here. Congratulations and all the best to the poets! Thank you for writing those poems!
6.I am a huge fan of Kampala Capital City Authority’s Executive Director, Jennifer Musisi but my heart would explode with admiration if she worked on parks around the city and put there such benches. These are absolutely amazing!
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/14/travel/uk-london-bookbenches/
7. Femrite’s July calender is about to get even more exciting as they host the First Regional Non-Fiction Writing workshop for Women and the nnual Femrite Week of Activities.
Save these dates:
16th July, 6pm to 8pm: Public Reading hosted with Goethe Zentrum Kampala at Mackinnon Road, Nakasero featuring Ugandan poet, Melissa Kiguwa.
28th July, 5.30pm to 8pm: Public Reading featuring Mamle Kabu, Yewande Omotoso and Dr Susan Kiguli in the BIG Hut at the National Theatre.
30th July, 3.30pm to 7pm: Public Dialogue on: African Women Writing their Stories; What difference does it make? This will feature AWDF’s Chief Executive Officer Theo Sowa, President and Founder of Femrite – Hon Mary Karoro Okurut, Director Regional Associates for Community Initiatives (RACI) – Dr Lina Zedriga, Mamle Kabu and Yewande Omotoso at Hotel Africana
1st August, 6pm to 8pm: Poetry bonfire night on the theme; Redefining Womanhood: A Celebration of Maya Angelou. Poets from Femrite, BNP Poetry Award, Lantern Meet of poets, Bonfire poetry, Poetry in Session, and other poets will read and recite Maya poetry and Maya inspired poetry at Uganda Museum.
See you there?
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