Product Details
Publisher Dilstories Limited
Publish Date December 2015
Pages About 38 pages
Language English
Type pdf, epub, mobi
ISSN 2313-8777
Categories: Literary, Poetry, Artwork
Cover Artwork: © 2015 Jo Ojok
Editors: Davina Kawuma, Dilman Dila
Short Stories
Chi Chi Voices by Novisi Dzitrie
Trapped by Margaret Muthee
Home by Peter Ngila
Poetry
Playing in Shadows by Mulumba Ivan Matthias
Msaa by Joe Mwenda
A Stranger’s Words to a Father by Kadmiella Akosua Atuah
AHA! by Omukuvah Otido
Contributors
Novisi Dzitrie was born to Ghanaian parents in Kakata, Liberia and lives in Ghana. While he was
growing up, some of his short stories were published in The Mirrow, a Ghanaian newspaper. His poem
was recently included in Prairie Schooner’s Fusion 9 and he contributed poems to the publication of the anthology “Look Where You have Gone To Sit” edited by Martin Eglewogbe and Laban Hill.
Peter Ngila is a Kenyan writer, book-addicted insomniac and literature faithful. A typical Kinai; Kinai
is a mad little-known Machakos County resident who reads always come rain or sun-while walking,
while relaxing. Peter believes that stories must be treasured and promoted for they make the world. He has been mentored in the Writivism Creative Writing Program, and attended Writivism workshops in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. His fiction has appeared on Muwado, Amka Space Forum (the blog) and
Daily News, a Tanzanian paper. Others works have featured in The Daily Nation and The Star; Kenyan
newspapers. Ngila is currently working with The Star as a journalist. He can’t reveal he is revisiting and
compiling few of his short stories for submission to publishers. He aspires to write more frequently as
he grows up.
Margaret Muthee is a trained journalist and Freelance writer living in Nairobi, Kenya. She is keen on
developing her creative writing skills. Her first short story, Escape, was written during the 2015
Writivism Programme with the assistance of mentor Richard Ali, and is published in http://www.onethrone.com/
Ajise Vincent is a Nigerian Poet. His poem “Song of a Progeny” was a shortlisted at the Korea-Nigeria
Poetry Feast, 2015. His works have been published in London-grip magazine, Eureka, Kalahari
Review, Sakonfa literary Magazine, ANA Review, AfricanWriter, Indian periodical, Jalada Africa,
Harbinger Asylum and various literary outlets.
Joe Mwenda is a Kenyan psychologist working with persons with various learning disabilities in
Nairobi. He loves books. He loves poetry and has been creating his own for at least eight years.
Mulumba Ivan Matthias is a Ugandan author. His poetry collection, Poetry In Motion, was published
in 2012. His work has appeared on line and in print. He is a valuation surveyor by profession.
Kadmiella Akosua Atuah is a Ghanaian student in New York in her second year of college. She studies International Business. Writing for her is very important and it developed even more after she moved in with her father. She is looking to be a writer in the near future to inspire and encourage people, because where I am from, depression is not something that exists, therefore acknowledged.
Omukuvah Otido comes from Nairobi, Kenya. He is primarily a poet although he also dabbles in
science fiction and photography. His poetic influences include Khayyam, Dickinson and Walcott.
His poetry has appeared in literary journals like Saraba Magazine and The Kalahari review.
All his works are available on his website www.omukuvah.org
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Publisher Dilstories Limited
Publish Date August 2015
Pages About 48 pages
Language English
Type pdf, epub, mobi
ISSN 2313-8777
Categories: Literary, Poetry, Artwork
Cover Artwork: © 2015 Jo Ojok
Editors: Davina Kawuma, Dilman Dila
Short Stories
She Who Had Gone Far by Perpetual Murray
Our Example by Lutivini Majanja
When the Circus Comes to Town by Zoë Gadegbeku
The Miracle of Fear by Bode Asiyanbi
Poetry
Men Die When They Fall In Love by Lule Raymond
Swoop by Stephen Derwent Partington
Hunting with Masai by Charles Bane, Jr.
Confluence by Nurain Oladeji
Theories of Death by Kelvin Enumah
Contributors
Perpetual Murray was born and raised in Zambia. She is now a resident of Tampa, Florida, where she
earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tampa, and currently she teaches English
and Creative Writing at the Art Institute of Tampa. Her short stories have appeared in Jungle Jim
Magazine and The Kalahari Review.
Bode Asiyanbi, born in Osogbo, Western Nigeria, was educated at Obafemi Awolowo University and
Lancaster University where he holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing. He is a two-time winner of
the BBC African Performance Playwriting prize. His short stories have been published by The Kalahari
Review and The Munyori Literary Journal. He writes radio drama for the BBC Media Action. He lives
in Nigeria where he is working on his first novel.
Lutivini Majanja is from Nairobi, Kenya. Her writing has been published on Kwani?, McSweeney’s
and The Golden Key. She holds a B.A from the University of Nairobi and an MFA in Creative Writing
from the University of Maryland.
Zoë Gadegbeku is a very recent graduate of Georgetown University. She will be pursuing an MFA in
Creative Writing at Emerson College starting in September. All she wants to do with her life is to write
until she runs out of words, at which point she will probably begin to invent her own. Her studies as a
French major have been dedicated to the history and cultures of Francophone Africa. She wrote her
senior honors thesis based on the writings of Awa Thiam, Mariam Bâ and Ken Bugul. Zoë also draws
inspiration from Ama Ata Aidoo, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Toni Morrison, and many other women writers
she enjoyed from her mother’s book collection. She hopes to be half as great as these women some day, but in her own unique way of course, because that’s what they would want.
Stephen Derwent Partington (SDP) is a teacher, poet and literary critic who has married into Kenya.
He writes a regular literary article for the Saturday Standard, has a light topical poem in the
weekly East African, and pens a satirical piece each week for the Kenyan tabloid, The Nairobian. He
also writes the occasional academic article, has had poems published in numerous magazines, and has
produced two full-length collections: SMS & Face to Face (Kenya, Phoenix) and How to Euthanise a
Cactus (UK, Cinnamon). He also participated in the Koroga Project. He is co-editor of a forthcoming
anthology of Kenyan poetry since 2003.
Lule Raymond is just another introvert who is obsessed with poetry, both reading and writing it.
Every day, he spends some time on the Internet specifically hunting for poems he has not read before.
His works can be found on his personal blog at luleraymond.blogspot.com.
Nurain Oladeji lives in, and writes poetry and short fiction from Nigeria. His works have been
published in chapbooks and web literary journals. He hopes to live in a perfect future where he is
published writer, a teacher, and a farmer.
Charles Bane, Jr. is the American author of The Chapbook (Curbside Splendor ) , Love Poems
(Aldrich Press) , and Three Seasons: Writing Donald Hall (Collection of Houghton Library, Harvard
University). He created and contributes to The Meaning Of Poetry series for The Gutenberg Project,
and is a current nominee as Poet Laureate of Florida. http://charlesbanejr.com
Kelvin Enumah, popularly called Panel among his peers, graduated as an electromechanical technician
from the Institute for Industrial Technology in Lagos. He is a technical instructor by profession. He
likes writing generally, but prefers and finds it easier to write poems, which he has been doing for a few years now. For him, it is a hobby and writing gives more meaning to his life.
Product Details
Publisher Dilstories Limited
Publish Date May 2015
Pages About 45 pages
Language English
Type pdf, epub, mobi
ISSN 2313-8777
Categories: Literary, Poetry, Artwork
Cover Artwork: © 2015 Jo Ojok
Editors: Davina Kawuma, Dilman Dila
Short Stories
Liar, Liar by Derick Lubangakene
The Soldier’s Wife by Dilman Dila
Temptations by John Barigye
The Death of Rude Bull by Jonathan Ojok
Poetry
One More Time by Shittu Fowora
Madiba by Musinguzi Robert
A Birthday Poem by Kelvin Kellman
Contributors
Musinguzi Ray Robert is a 35-year old aspiring Ugandan writer. He is a holder of a Business
Administration and Management Diploma from Cambridge International College. Some of his poetry
work has been published in Nigeria by ARTBEATAFRIKA. He recently finalized the manuscript of his
first book, The Tears of the Devil and working on his second, The Assembly. Email:
Musinguzirayrobert@gamil.com
Shittu Fowora Storyteller, poet, freelance writer and editor. Shittu, a lifelong fan of history and the
power of scented words has recently been motivated by the winsomeness of birds and the wisdom of
ants. Having been stung more than twice while attempting to lounge in trees to write verses, he now
spends more time around PCs and electronic gadgets. He enjoys sharing ideas, verses and stories with
those who care.
Derek Lubangakene is a poet, writer of Fantasy fiction and a screenwriter, living in Kampala,
Uganda. His poetry has been published in The Missing Slate and The Kalahari Review, plus in a few
local newspapers. He was also longlisted for the 2013 Golden Baobab Prize. He is an avid reader, an
incessant tweeter (@d_slays_dragons) and occasionally blogs about writing on his personal blog
(dereklubangakene.wordpress.com)
Jonathan Ojok makes his living as a film editor and graphic designer. He lives in fear of the sun and
so keeps indoors behind a computer all the time. He thinks he is a vampire. The Death of Rude Bull is
his first published short story. He has lived with the story since his days in St Peter’s College Tororo,where he hit a bully with a chanku and got expelled. He is working on his first novel, which he started writing ten years ago.
Kelvin Kellman resides in Ile-Ife Nigeria. He writes poetry, prose and essays. He was Longlisted for
the 2013 Ghana Poetry Foundation Prize and the 2014 BN Poetry Award. He is currently working on a
collection of poems, which will come out soon.
Dilman Dila is a Ugandan writer and filmmaker whose works have been recognized in many
international prizes, including the BBC International Radio Scriptwriting Competition, the
Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Jalada Prize for Literature, Short Story Day Africa Prize, and the
Million Writer’s Awards. He started Lawino Magazine to promote writing from Africa, with particular
focus on Uganda, and to encourage reading of African literature on mobile devices.
John Barigye currently works as an engineer at Century Bottling Company, but has an eye on
becoming a professional writer. He has been writing since he was eleven years old, and has had a few
pieces published on artsheba.com, a US-based platform for supporting East African Writing. He is
currently busy on a few other short stories, which he hopes to have published soon.
Product Details
Publisher Dilstories Limited
Publish Date May 2015
Pages About 45 pages
Language English
Type pdf, epub, mobi
ISSN 2313-8777
Categories: Literary, Poetry, Artwork
Cover Artwork: Backstab © 2015 Tade Thompson
Fiction Editor: Dilman Dila
Poetry Editor: Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva
Short Stories
Playing Games in the Delta by Lauri Kubuitsile
In Her Sister’s Shadow by Hannah Onoguwe
Jar of misfortune by Mulumba Ivan Matthias
Jaw’ed Angel by Yazeed Dezele
Poetry
Like My Mind by David Ishaya Osu
The Plan by David Ishaya Osu
A Cancellation by Ali Znaidi
Inside the Mind of a Happy Side Dish by Acen Miriam Carolyne
I’m Unlike My Mother by Liz Leppy
BNPA Poetry Prize
QnA with Tom Jalio
Contributors
Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia, where he teaches English. He authored four poetry
chapbooks including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s Cloth
Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press,
2014), and Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014). You can see more of his work on
his blog at aliznaidi.blogspot.com
Lauri Kubuitsile is a full-time, award-winning writer living in Botswana. She has numerous
published books for both kids and adults, across various genres, and her short stories have been
published around the world. She won the Pan-African prize for children’s writing, The Golden
Baobab, twice. She won the Bessie Head Literature Award for short story, the 2007
AngloPlatinum Short Story Contest, and the Botswana’s Department of Arts and Culture, 2007
Botswerere Award for Creative Writing. She was shortlisted for the 2011 Caine Prize.
Hannah Onoguwe spent most of her growing-up years in Jos where she discovered her love for
writing. It is also the setting of her fondest childhood memories. She studied at the Universities of
Ibadan and Jos. Her short stories have appeared in Adanna Literary Journal and BLACKBERRY:
a magazine, as well as online on Litro, The Missing Slate, Cassava Republic, and African Writer.
Her first book, Cupid’s Catapult, is a collection of short, romantic stories published under the
Nigeria Writers Series imprint by the Association of Nigerian Authors. She enjoys travelling—in
comfort—and is a bit of a movie buff, with a weakness for romantic comedies. When she is not
reading or writing, she likes to try new recipes and tweak old ones. Follow her on Twitter
@HannahOnoguwe.
Mulumba Ivan Matthias is a Ugandan author living in Kampala, Uganda. He is a valuation
surveyor by trade. He is the author of a collection of poems, Poetry In Motion, published in 2012.
His poetry and short fiction have appeared in print anthologies, and online in The Kalahari
Review, Readers’ Café Africa, Africa book club and Munyori Literary Journal, among others. He
writes a blog, http://mimulumba.wordpress.com/
Yazeed Dezele, born in 1991 in Abuja, is a Nigerian writer and social activist. He has been an
editor at ‘The Crescent,’ a paramystic zine. He is an ambassador of the ‘Cesar Egido Serrano
Foundation’ and is currently working on a novel. His stories have appeared in Omenana.
Acen Miriam Carolyne loves to read and write poetry, especially spoken word, since she loves
her poems to appear theatrical. She started writing while in secondary school, but only recently
became a fully fledged poet. She mostly publishes her works on social media platforms, and this
year, she came second in the Muwado Love Letter Writing Competition.
David Ishaya Osu (b. October 27, 1991) is a Nigerian poet. His works have appeared in
publications including: The New Black Magazine, Saturday Sun, African Writer, Gobbet
Magazine, Elohi Gadugi Journal, The Kalahari Review, Ann Arbor Review, Sentinel Annual
Literature Anthology (SALA 2012), Poetic Diversity, and elsewhere. David is currently exploring
Japanese poetry forms, as well as polishing his debut poetry book. He is also a street photography
enthusiast.
Liz Leppy, born and raised in Ngong, North Kajiado, in Kenya, is a poet, a journalist, a student, a romance writer, a scriptwriter, and a lyricist. She is currently working on her debut novel. More of her life and works is available at her blog lizzleppy.blogspot.com
Product Details
Publisher Dilstories Limited
Publish Date November 2014
Pages About 76 pages
Language English
Type pdf, epub, mobi
ISSN 2313-8777
Categories: Literary, Poetry, Artwork
Cover Artwork: © 2014 Charity Atukunda
Managing Editor: Dilman Dila
Poetry Editor: Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva
Fiction Editors: Beatrice Lamwaka, Barbara Oketta
Short Stories
Babysitting Sweetheart by Davina P. Kawuma
Flowers by Doreen Anyango
When the Rains Came by Proscovia Akello
The Husband Snatcher by Ayobami Adebayo
Poetry
Fumbo by Regina Asinde
Should I? by Emily Achieng
Let Me Stay by Redscar McOdindo K’Oyuga
Waking Up by Efe Tokunbo
Seek Me Not by Redscar McOdindo K’Oyuga
No Change by Regina Asinde
Spoken Word
A New Prayer by Gloria Kiconco
BNPA Special
There Was Once Something Special Here by Tom Jalio
Blood and Water by Elizabeth Muchemwa
Insane Living by Dorothie Ayebazibwe
Contributors
Davina Philomena Kawuma was born in Lusaka and grew up in Kampala. She has participated in the 2013 African Writers Trust Uganda International Writers Conference, the African Writers Trust Poetry Workshop, the FEMRITE/British Council Performance Poetry Workshop, the 2013 Caine Prize Workshop, the inaugural British Council/African Writers Trust Mentorship Programme, and the 2013 FEMRITE Regional Residency for African Women Writers. In her idea of a perfect world, she writes novellas during her lunch break and publishes them shortly before she goes to bed. She has written articles and features for African Woman Magazine.
Doreen Anyango is a Ugandan fiction writer who resides Kampala. She writes to try and find answers to life’s big questions and to make sense of the world around her.
Regina Asinde Kasede is a thirty two year old female Ugandan from Mulanda in Tororo district. She currently lives in Kampala with her four children and her husband. She works as a volunteer at Femrite, Uganda Women Writers’ Association, and she writes poetry and short stories.
Emilly Achieng is from Nairobi, Kenya. Alongside being a writer, she is an avid reader. She expects nothing more from life than a great pile of writing paper defaced by her scrawl.
Redscar McOdindo K’Oyuga is a social entrepreneur, an elusive medical student, a winner of Fern Poetry Prize, a blogger, a chaser of dreams, and a lover. He writes in both Swahili and English. Deep within the pockets of Nairobi, he lives a humble life in the company of books of varied genres. It is during his numerous local expeditions, and tour through books, or just in stillness of time, the gusty winds of the Savanna in his face, that the old poem coalesces, the unlikely story comes, the muse takes shape.
Efe Tokunbo is a poet lost in Maya. If you see him in the dream, please point him in the direction of the nearest portal. Read more of his words at efeokogu.com
Ayobami Adebayo was born in 1988. Her work was highly commended in the 2009 Commonwealth short story competition. In 2012, she was a writer in residence at Writers Omi International (Ledig House), New York. Her first novel, Stay With Me was shortlisted for the Kwani? Manuscript prize.
Proscovia Akello has worked for many years in the financial industry, specialising in SME (small and medium enterprises) and has come across many stories, some of which she has penned and await publication. She also runs an educational program for the disenfranchised youth, to challenge them embrace entrepreneurship and business as a career.
Gloria Kiconco once went by the stage name Glo-Flo, when she was still involved with Bonfire Uganda in 2009. She is now back to just Gloria. She recites at Poetry-in-Session and sometimes at Kwivuga. She has worked in public relations and right now she is a journalist and editor-in-training. She blogs at http://rhymesbythereams.wordpress.com/
Charity Atukunda currently resides in Mukono, Uganda. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial and Fine Arts at Uganda Christian University. She is a painter and a jewelry designer. Her goal is to create a livelihood with her talents amidst a stagnant and stumbling economy where every entrepreneur is a copy of the last. Experience her other art works and blog at ensiensya.wordpress.com, it explores the rewards and challenges of being a young artist in Uganda creating a platform for herself; pursuing and perfecting her own voice as an artist and designer.
Dorothie Ayebazibwe, a lawyer, writer, wife and mother, was the Second Runner-Up in the BN Poetry Awards in 2014. She first realized she could write poetry when in my Primary Six; they were given an assignment to write a poem about Uganda and a fellow pupil copied her poem verbatim. She only discovered this juvenile case of plagiarism when they were summoned before the teacher who demanded to know where both had copied the poem from. Through the years, she has come to lean more toward prose and has been involved in a number of writing projects. Poetry has always been just a hobby and something she studied in High school. It is for her, an outlet of emotions.
Elizabeth Muchemwa was the First Runner-Up of the BN Poetry Awards in 2014. Born in Chirumhanzu, Zimbabwe on the 14th of February 1986, Elizabeth Muchemwa is a Poet, Writer and Director for Theatre. Her full names Elizabeth Ruramai Sharon came as a concession between her parents who, at her birth, had each a different name to give her. Elizabeth has been performing Poetry since 2006 in Zimbabwe; she has performed at Festivals like HIFA, Intwasa Arts Festival and Protest Arts International Festival, participated in monthly poetry events like House of Hunger Poetry Slam and Sistaz Open Mic and performed at private functions some of which have included Book Café at 16 years and the launch of the Zimbabwe Market Fair. She has directed plays for the stage; one of them Wedding Day was performed at the Drama for life Festival in 2010 and Intwasa Festival 2010.
Tom Jalio was born and bred in Kenya. His poem, There Was Once Something Special Here, won the BN Poetry Awards for 2014, earning him a cash prize of 1,000 US Dollars and an autographed copy of Wheels by Kwame Dawes. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Media Studies from the University of Nairobi. As an editor for Master Publishing, he has helped produce nearly twenty fiction and non-fiction titles. He attended the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair under the auspices of the Kenya ICT Board’s Tandaa Digital Content grant. Tom is a soft-spoken introvert who finds his voice in the written word. He sees humour in the mundane and poetry in the tragic, and expresses that in his writings. He’s mostly done creative nonfiction but is now venturing to literary fiction. His features, short stories, and poems have been published in over ten magazines, newspapers, and anthologies.
Product Details
Publisher Dilstories Limited
Publish Date August 2014
Pages About 47 pages
Language English
Type pdf, epub, mobi
ISSN 2313-8777
Categories: Literary, Poetry, Artwork
Cover Artwork: © 2014 Jo Ojok
Managing Editor: Dilman Dila
Poetry Editor: Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva
Fiction Editors: Beatrice Lamwaka, Barbara Oketta, Glaydah Namukasa
Short Stories
Afro Kinky by Tendai Machingaize
Partaking by Sophie Alal
The Beggar Who Laughed by Sanya Noel
Reminiscence by Hassan Higenyi
Poetry
Violent Love by Harriet Anena
Aquagasm by Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva
Into The Reaches Of Regret by Emmeline Bisiikwa
Changes by Famous Isaacs
Them Little Demons by Sanya Noel
Spoken Word
Muyenga Mansion by Linda Nabasa
Contributors
Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva is a Ugandan writer and poet and the Founder and Director of the annual BN Poetry Award for African poets. She is also the Founder of the BN Leadership Academy for Women and Girls in Africa and the Creator of PoeTRicks, an adventure toolkit for children who read and write poetry.
Tendai Machingaidze was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1982. She holds degrees from Syracuse University and Southwestern Seminary. Tendai’s short stories have been published by Weaver Press Zimbabwe, Africa Book Club, The Kalahari Review, and to come African Roar 2014. Tendai has also published her debut novel titled Acacia (African Perspectives Publishing, 2014). Currently, Tendai lives in Russia where she is studying Medicine.
Sanya Noel is a poet and story writer. He is currently in his final year of university studying engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology where he also heads the JKUAT Poetry Club, a club of creatives and students with literary interests. He is working on his first poetry anthology and at the same time also working on his first short story collection. He does engineering designs besides reading and writing and enjoys doing competitive athletics during his free time.
Famous Isaacs is a Nigerian photographer and poet. He holds a BA in English and Literature from the University of Benin, Nigeria. He is the author of two self-published collections, One Day In The Failing Light Of Dusk (2013), and Beyond (2014). His upcoming collections, ‘We’ve All Got Ours’ and ‘Hope Is Not A Grain Of Sand’, document narratives of travel with themes of isolation, religious fanaticism, disillusionment, violence, and feminism. His works have been featured in Saraba Magazine, ReadWave, and Brittle Paper. He blogs at http://famousisaacs.blogspot.com/ and tweets from https://twitter.com/famousisaacs
Emmeline Bisiikwa is a 21 year old passionate poet. She loves to read novels and poems and started writing poetry at the age of 9. She loves to travel and blog about it and believes that great stories are a good way to escape reality and exist- for a moment in another world.
Hassan Higenyi, aka Sense, is an ambitious writer whose writings, mostly informed opinion and book reviews, have appeared in almost all of Uganda’s newspapers, namely The Daily Monitor, The Independent, and The New Vision. He is a University drop-out, but in 2006, while still a student of BA(Arts), as a Literature major, he won the national YEAH (Young Empowered And Healthy), an initiative of the Uganda Aids Commission, journalism writing competition dubbed “Something for Something Love” (on the theme of Cross generational sex). In 2010, he teamed up with like-minded individuals to form Freethought Kampala, a social group, “to promote reason in a highly superstitious society that is Uganda.” He is currently exploring Africa as he works on his “Voice of Reason”, a four-parts novella, “Reminiscence” being the first part.
Harriet Anena wrote her first poem in 2003. It secured her bursary to high school and a license to use and abuse words at poetic pleasure. She has done that and more, venturing into the wordier world of fiction story writing. Her literary works have been published by the Caine Prize, African Writers Trust, BooksLive and African Sun Press. Anena runs a blog for poetry, fiction, media reviews, and commentaries at Jotspot. http://anenah.wordpress.com/
Linda Nabasa (Nada) is a poet, a musician, an actress, and a writer. Her works have featured in many festivals, workshops and exhibitions, and she has performed in the Parliament of Uganda. She has received creative writing training from Bayimba (tutored by Deborah Asiimwe, a BBC award winning playwright) and from Writivisim CACE, where her mentor was Richard Ugbede Ali, Editor in Chief of Sentinel Nigeria. She has recorded a music album with Herbert Kinobe, and is currently working on her first book of poetry, ‘Nipples, Dimples, and Pimples.’
Sophie Alal is a writer, poet and journalist. She lives and works in Kampala and publishes at Deyu African, a platform for sharing African and Diasporic arts and culture.
