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m Grace Atuhaire,writer and asocial scientist here in uganda.
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the break through of poetry in uganda
Breaking the ice of Art and Poetry in Uganda! (Part one)
For quite some time Ugandans have been classified to be bad readers and so we became reluctant to write.
Literature lovers have to struggle to get audience from their own country as organizations like FEMRITE (Uganda Women Writers Association) started to equip Ugandan women with skills of writing.
The first books were inspirations of the experiences of the different women in the country and with time the writers formed the readers club which included both males and females with no age limit to come together, encourage, read and critic their writing materials.
This resulted into the poster project with the publications of these meet up writers’ poetry to the first phase of Painted voices vol.one for 2008/2009.
It was a small volume with the fusion of art and poetry collection.
Then painted voices second volume was published and launched in January to run in the period of 2009/2010
This has a bigger volume of the collection of art and poetry.
then the embrace of Justice ogoolas launch!!!
Justice James Ogoola’s poetry book ‘The Songs of Paradise’: A Harvest of Poetry and Verse was launched on Friday at Serena Kampala Hotel.
‘AT his birth, the heavens grinned; a graceful grin," reads the opening line of one of the poems.
It contains 52 poems and explores themes of humanity, love, justice, and governance.
“Songs of paradise is a journey of life. The life of a man with a lot of experience,” Dr John Kalema, a former lecturer at
‘Whenever Ogoola's literary muse sneezes, many catch a cold’.
Justice Ogoola is the Principle Judge of
Prime Minister Prof. Apollo Nsibambi, who was the chief guest, complimented Justice Ogoola on his versatility and contribution to the reading culture of
Justice Ogoola pointed out that for some time people have related art and poetry to that painter in dirty shirts and jeans or t-shirts with paintings all over one’s face.
He expressed his fear that the corporate do not want to express them self through art and poetry which is a break though to any ones self
He too addressed the question of poor African readership saying:
“We don’t live to read. But we read to live.”
Around kampala
A meal from a kiosk.
It’s not an every day thing that you can get access to a plate of food at only 1000 ugsh.
The Saturday of 11th July 2009, I and my friends couldn’t help the aroma that reached our nostrils .we decided to enter one kiosk along Kira road police station.
At first we were not sure where the scent came from till one of the attendants called out on us!
Banyabo emele e’ lyeno’ (ladies, the food is in here) she said
We entered the small room with tinny benches and sat opposite each other.
Where I was seated I could see the view of the kitchen, then a woman appeared in a red wrapper and slippers to take our orders.
It reminded me of a place in Jinja I had visited where menus were laid out on the tables for customers but they only had one meal available; matooke and beans
This time it was matooke, posho with gnuts.
Life couldn’t get worse after serving two plates; she broke it to me and jenny that the food was finished
“Banyabo wasigadeyo kawunga” (ladies, food is over but we are remaining with posho)
‘Did she think one would order posho with no sauce?’ we smiled it off and told her we were okay with the two plates
We asked her if it was possible for us to buy food from another place but she assured us that she was the only one with the food!
‘What time do people around here eat?’ I wondered. It was just 1:35 pm.
I watched my friends eat their share and we got out of the place with great memories.
‘Kiosk! I am coming back, this time at mid day.
Thanks to Harriet, Grace, Jenny and Alal for making the day colorful.
Compiled by Grace A., Harriet M. and Jennifer O.
