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Just Announced: The 2024 Longlist for the Ibua Manuscript Project

by Hannah Coroneos

Book Reviews• The Decade Project September 17, 2020

Jennifer Makumbi’s New Novel is an Unapologetic and Multi-layered Take on Feminism

Features• News April 03, 2020

Goretti Kyomuhendo Appointed to Commonwealth Foundation’s Advisory Governorship for Africa Region

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Features• News February 21, 2020

Dr Stella Nyanzi Wins Appeal at Ugandan Court, Regains Freedom, But Is Possibly Re-arrested

by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

Features• News February 05, 2020

Dr Stella Nyanzi Publishes Poetry Collection, No Roses From My Mouth, from Jail

by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

Features• News January 18, 2020

Dr Stella Nyanzi Receives Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression

by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

Features• News August 03, 2019

Dr. Stella Nyanzi Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for a Poem About Uganda’s President Museveni, Stages Nude Protest in Court

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Features July 02, 2019

Jennifer Makumbi on Her Collection, National Identities, Prizes, Adichie’s Fame, MFAs, and Why Western Editors Don’t Get African Audiences

by Otosirieze Obi-Young