Muwado – Africa's Storytelling Platform | Crystal Butungi Rutangye | Activity https://muwado.com/members/cbutungi/activity/ Activity feed for Crystal Butungi Rutangye. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:17:39 +0300 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a3ddc26b051f64d7f5793ed58a51a635 Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=55126 Wed, 20 May 2026 18:20:04 +0300 International Publishing Fellowship: Day 3 — Where Are Our Libraries!! Like I said last week, walking in Manchester felt like we were inside an epic film. We spent the night, and in the morning met the great Ivan Wadeson, who […]

]]> 0b72b87485ac8b13f699b7ac2963d434 Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=54848 Fri, 08 May 2026 10:43:49 +0300 International Publishing Fellowship: Day 2 – A MERRY MANCHESTER AND A HAPPY NEW RESOLUTION For many self-employed Ugandans, this year began in February. We spent the first weeks of January preparing for a rumoured internet shutdown, then enjoying […]

]]> 1bcd2fff5b05fb3ff6e7137240876063 Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=54644 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:49:34 +0300 International Publishing Fellowship: Day 1.6 – LITERARY GOD MOTHER! Day 1 came to a close too soon. Well, we did have one more session after Nathan’s, a roundtable discussion on marketing, publicity and events with two i […]

]]> a2470537167c80606ce90408dc644093 Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=54380 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:28:08 +0300 International Publishing Fellowship: Day 1.3 – BUYING AND SELLING BOOK RIGHTS Last week I shared about our utopic visit to the Penguin Random House headquarters on the morning of day one. Still riding that high, we left PRH and walked […]

]]> e4881336cb6c58e244c7a85931861272 Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=54279 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:48:51 +0300 International Publishing Fellowship: Day 1.2 IN-HOUSE AUDIOBOOK STUDIOS Penguin Random House has its own in-house audiobook studios. After our Q and A with Molly and her colleague from Transworld, she took us to the studios and […]

]]> 7cc4c60b902427d2e446c462a5ec1b3d Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=54182 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:14:01 +0300 International Publishing Fellowship (IPF): Day 1.1 VISITING ONE OF THE BIG 5 Day one started with a big bang. We visited one of the Big 5: the headquarters of Penguin Random House in the UK. I will now give you a moment to exclaim in […]

]]> 22f98f44da7bd15d97f68c3a320fbb2a Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=54138 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:50:24 +0300 International Publishing Fellowship: PREFACE All I knew at the start was that I had been nominated by the British Council Uganda to attend their International Publishing Fellowship. The news came from a […]

]]> b13f7a402318f414e59a83c14d02caad Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=52509 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:53:33 +0300 UGANDA READS – BUT DO WE BUY? I have a theory: Uganda’s reading culture is not as poor as people claim. The bigger problem is a poor book-buying culture. I’m convinced that AT LEAST 2,0 […]

]]> e145e0acf1236c743d00dfced1ee43e5 Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=52391 Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:31:43 +0300 Publishers, Authors & Booksellers, let’s talk about market research. How can we predict book sales if we don’t have solid data on what genres are selling and where? In the West, publishers can rely on platforms like The B […]

]]> 29deb961efbecf21c2a7d6400980bea8 Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=52182 Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:26:47 +0300 Why should I buy your book instead of paying for endless movies and series at nearly the same price? I’m Scared. On my socials, I asked this question: Your book is UGX 50,000. A Netflix subscription is about UGX 40,000. I can only afford one this […]

]]> e9dac56357ea6e228e7f409d77d30c60 Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=48331 Tue, 06 May 2025 17:53:39 +0300 Books Aren’t Too Expensive, Our Priorities Are.You’ve probably heard that old, troubling saying: “If you want to hide something from an African, put it in a book.” I’ve often wondered where that came fr […]

]]> 45e9a7dd0557d60c7dc8d27f54b90e2a Crystal Butungi Rutangye joined the group The Muwado Art Of Commercial Storytelling Webinars Community Group https://muwado.com/activity/p/28847/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:34:49 +0300 0 54726699578d63b7450ef9130d38747d Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=47332 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:45:05 +0300 Writing in Uganda is only for the rich. My friend commented on one of my post saying, “Writing in Uganda is only for the rich.”Sadly, she might be right – at least for writers of trade books (no […]

]]> 7cfae48944a64d5dd62d1ea3b03f5072 Crystal Butungi Rutangye wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=46777 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:58:12 +0300 Do Ugandan books sell? This was my opening question at a panel discussion at the K’la Writes LitFest last year. Two panellists offered contrasting views. Dora Kemirimo Okuja, […]

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