Muwado Community Management
Happy New Year!
With January out of the way, we hope 2025 has kicked off on a great note!
A huge thank you to everyone who has written and shared their stories on our platform in the past year and look forward to even more submissions this year!
Last year, we launched the latest iteration of Muwado showcasing new tools allowing our members to earn in what we believe is a more sustainable way. You can now also take control of your profile and upload your stories yourself.
With these new features, Muwado is well-positioned to serve the best interests of African storytellers, story consumers, and advertisers trying to get a good return on investment for their marketing budget. Reach us at [email protected], or reply to this email for details on our great advertising offers.
Among other things, we toured the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and connected with talented creatives, storytellers, and cultural innovators from across Southern Africa. You can check out the press coverage we got while in Zambia and Botswana.
2025
This year, we are super excited to share that we have prepared some unique experiences for you. Thanks to support from The African Cultural Fund, we are running a training course for storytellers:
THE MUWADO ART OF COMMERCIAL STORYTELLING WEBINARS
In this training, we will cover several topics and themes with a webinar a week through March and April.
You can register for this training using this form: https://forms.gle/oM4Jngx6DjEXoPgU7
The training will shortly be followed by a writing competition where we shall put your creative skills to the test, and reward the best submissions. Look out for the announcement for that around April.
Platform Upgrades
We do care about your experience on our platform and will be making some upgrades to improve user experience. To this end, we encourage you to reply to this email with your feedback on what we can do to make the site better and improve your experience.
Top Stories of 2024
1 Open Letter to the President by Beewol
2 Education Sector in crisis with CBC “O” and “A” level transitioning by George Piwang-Jalobo
3 The Beginnings of Sir Edward Muteesa II Museum in Makerere University by George Piwang-Jalobo
4 A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY ACHILLES AHIMBISIBWE, 12 November 1980 – 01 February 2023 by Odoki Jimmy
5 Why Muzungu Boda Should be Stopped by Jacob Katumusiime
6 Write Your Wrongs on Muwado And Win [CLOSED] by Muwado Community Management
7 Kenya’s Gen Z Uprising: Uganda’s Crucial Lesson in Listening to the Youth by EJIKU Justine
8 #RolexInKenya Attending NBO LitFest 2024 in the middle of a revolution by Rolex
9 The lessons we learn from “letting go” by Denzel Maniple Everd
10 THE TOP 10 OF ‘EVERYTHING UGANDAN POETRY’: Top 10 Ugandan Male Performance Poets by Kagayi Ngobi
Top 10 Stories from January 2025!
1 A Letter to Dr. Kizza Besigye: The Conscience of our Nation. by EJIKU Justine
2 Why the 2Face and Annie Divorce is on him. by Chantal Ruby Batamuliza Uwimbabazi
3 Kyambogo Rubgy vs URU, CURA & Victoria Sharks. A Test of Integrity for Ugandan Rugby by Musanjufu Benjamin Kavubu
4 How to be a better Idiot. by Denzel Maniple Everd
5 Kintu and Nambi; Nambi’s Plea #11 by The Muchwezi
6 Monica Namukwana: The Heartbeat of Change in Busoga by Smith Kiiza
7 2024, A CONFUSING YEAR OF HARD WORK WITH LITTLE TO SHOW IN THE BOOK INDUSTRY OF UGANDA. by Zziwa Zinabala
8 15 Radio Stations in Uganda as members of a tight-knit Girl Friend Circle. by Beewol
9 60 Ugandan Females aged between 18 and 22 have been recruited to work in Russia, under the Alabuga Start program. by Loveness Sithe
10 Overcoming the shame that surrounds unemployment by Anna Grace Awilli
To those who have joined us along the way, thank you for being part of the Muwado community. And to the new people joining, welcome. We need you—established and aspiring African content creators—to join us on this journey. Whether it’s opinion pieces, short stories, essays, poems, picture galleries, comics, podcasts, audio stories… Muwado is here to be the canvas you use to share your art. We look forward to sharing more stories and insights with you next month.
