BY BABISHAI-NIWE POETRY FOUNDATION Babies and children love to frolic: it’s important for their growth. Parents and guardians would worry if their children didn’t lark about by chewing on dirt, rummaging through handbags, and tearing up cheque books. Babishai had its fair share of frolicking with ideas, experimenting with the idea that a poetry award […]
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Brittle Paper Anniversary Event: “2010s: The Decade of African Literary Expansion” | A Conversation on Facebook
On August 1, 2017, Brittle Paper will be seven years old. To mark our anniversary, we are organising a series of events, among which are Facebook conversations with writers, editors and founders of literary initiatives. This is the first of our anniversary conversations. * The 2000s was a renaissance period in African literature, the blossoming of […]
Babishai Poetry Festival 2017 | Interview with Mugabi Byenkya, Author of Dear Philomena
As part of the countdown to the 2017 Babishai Poetry Festival in Uganda, the organisers are conducting a series of interviews on their guests and on writers whose works have made a landmark. The festival will be held on 4-6 August 2017. Here, one of the guests, Mugabi Byenkya, author of Dear Philomena, discusses how he became […]
Opportunity for African Writers | Enter for the 2017 Babishai Haiku Contest
The 2017 Babishai Haiku Contest is open for submissions. Only African poets resident in Africa, who have not yet published a full-length collection of poetry by July 2017, are eligible. The organisers will be considering only haiku poems that are Africa-themed. The submissions must contain clear images, settings and juxtaposition. They must also be concise, […]
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