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Features, Lit Scene May 13, 2019

How African Writers Celebrated Mother’s Day

Speaking of a mother’s love, Chimamanda Adichie once said: “…the completeness, the wholesomeness of this love. It’s just a different thing from anything I’ve ever experienced in my life.” Many in the African literary community would agree with her that a mother’s love is powerful and worthy of celebration. We saw this sort of appreciation […]

Opportunity for African Writers | Enter for the 2018 Babishai Niwe Poetry Competition

The annual Babisha Niwe Poetry Prize is open for submissions. All African poets who will not have published a full-length collection by July 2018 are eligible and encouraged to submit to the prize. Only previously unpublished poems written in English will be accepted. Entrants are to submit five single-spaced poems in a Word document via […]

Insane living | Dorothie Ayebazibwe | 3rd Prize Winner of Babishai Niwe Poetry Award

I leap and clap and, in ecstasy, sway To a beat that—they claim—is only in my head. I scream with delight at the clouds, all so bright, In yellows and golds and silvers and reds And yet they insist the sky is just blue-white. The sky softly whispers, a quick contradiction, “Don’t worry,” it says, […]

Blood and Water | by Elizabeth Muchemwa | 2nd Prize Winner of Babishai Niwe Poetry Award

He washes his hands in streams she has made. Rivers flowing beneath her eyes have Salted the land with the acrid taste of her Hate. Wells have risen to pool within her, catching the cries that would speak her Hurt. He washes his hands in streams she has made. She dreams sonic dreams with […]