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Writivism awards back after three years

Nairobi, March 9 -- After a three-year hiatus that started after its last festival held in Kampala in August 2019, the Writivism literary initiative has announced a short list of writers for the 2023 ... Read More


Ugandan's work gets honourable mention at literary fest

Nairobi, March 3 -- Rituals of Home by Mildred Kiconco Barya from Uganda this year received an Honourable Mention at the Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize. Honourable Mention is a distinct... Read More


The long road to freedom for artists in Tanzania

Nairobi, March 2 -- The Mapping Report on Artistic Freedom in Tanzania cites cultural protectionism, political interference, lack of harmonisation of laws and regulations, and the lack of professional... Read More


Berlinale winner Diop 'stands with Palestine'

Nairobi, March 2 -- Dahomey, by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop won the Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear prize for best film. The documentary follows the journey of 26 plundered ... Read More


Tanzanian, Kenyan films selected for Durban fete

Nairobi, Feb. 24 -- Films from Kenya and Tanzania are among the eight projects that have been selected to the Pitch and Finance Forum of the 2024 Durban FilmMart (DFM), Africa's premier co-production ... Read More


African animated sci-fi series honoured with multiple awards

Nairobi, Feb. 24 -- The South Africa/ Ireland-based animation studio, Triggerfish, which produced Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, a Disney+ Original ten-part sci-fi collection of premium original films,... Read More


Civicus fights for imprisoned Burundi writer

Nairobi, Feb. 19 -- Global civil society alliance Civicus has added jailed Burundian journalist Floriane Irangabiye to its Stand As My Witness campaign, which advocates the release of wrongly imprison... Read More


Tanzania authors scoop top Kiswahili literature awards

Nairobi, Feb. 17 -- Tanzanian authors Philipo Oyaro and Fatuma Salim have won the top prizes at the 2023 Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature competition. Oyaro won the first prize in... Read More


Beans: Uganda's favourite legume reinvented

Uganda, Feb. 10 -- Female farmers under their umbrella Bakuseka Majja Farmers Group in Mayuge District, eastern Uganda, say since they started growing the new biofortified, fast-maturing, resilient, h... Read More


From adversity to artistry: Story of an ex-child soldier

Nairobi, Feb. 10 -- Young Peter Oloya was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Northern Uganda and conscripted into its ranks as a child soldier. Oloya was only 11 in 1994, when the... Read More