Muwado – Africa's Storytelling Platform | Kagayi Ngobi | Activity https://muwado.com/members/kagayipeter/activity/ Activity feed for Kagayi Ngobi. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:57:48 +0300 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7748e12d08a6eadd44c9b11afb064121 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the First Follower badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36854/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:34 +0300 0 b6cf5fc01d517af2e4f8ffd6908c3219 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the 1K Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36852/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:33 +0300 0 b6cf5fc01d517af2e4f8ffd6908c3219 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the 500 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36850/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:33 +0300 0 b6cf5fc01d517af2e4f8ffd6908c3219 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the First Follower badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36848/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:33 +0300 0 b6cf5fc01d517af2e4f8ffd6908c3219 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the 100 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36847/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:33 +0300 0 c530afe85d6e9802f7945ed93db1b8a3 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the 1K Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36846/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:32 +0300 0 c530afe85d6e9802f7945ed93db1b8a3 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the Monthly Consistent badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36845/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:32 +0300 0 c530afe85d6e9802f7945ed93db1b8a3 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the Marathon Writer badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36844/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:32 +0300 0 c530afe85d6e9802f7945ed93db1b8a3 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the 500 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36843/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:32 +0300 0 9fae8908a39f22771a09b0d8770ca4f7 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the 100 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36842/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:31 +0300 0 9fae8908a39f22771a09b0d8770ca4f7 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the Storyteller badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36841/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:31 +0300 0 9fae8908a39f22771a09b0d8770ca4f7 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the Monthly Consistent badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36840/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:31 +0300 0 9fae8908a39f22771a09b0d8770ca4f7 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the First Story badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36839/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:31 +0300 0 3c70357038a18037be07b6952aff7e83 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the Marathon Writer badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36838/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:30 +0300 0 3c70357038a18037be07b6952aff7e83 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the Storyteller badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36836/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:30 +0300 0 a45d0b7f107a6694a8e517646df515f7 Kagayi Ngobi just earned the First Story badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/36834/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:29 +0300 0 80b81e1728f185bd401f4d10b0b8ebcc Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=47650 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:31:55 +0300 THE MUWADO STORYTELLING WEBINARS – PLOT, PACING, & STRUCTURE IN STORYTELLING RECAP – KAGAYI NGOBI Week 3 of the Muwado Commercial Storytelling Webinars happened on Tuesday, 18th March, with Kagayi Ngobi – a Ugandan playwright, poet, performer, publisher, a […]

]]> 1c52564bb0f251ce781c6095e463bb29 Kagayi Ngobi joined the group The Muwado Art Of Commercial Storytelling Webinars Community Group https://muwado.com/activity/p/28845/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:27:58 +0300 0 2837c755ae577b6f6288faf779b9950e Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=42259 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:23:50 +0300 THE TOP 10 UGANDAN POETRY BOOKS (FROM 2000 -2020) So, my list 3 of The Top 10 of ‘Everything Ugandan Poetry’ features my top 10 Ugandan poetry books in public circulation between 2000 and 2020. This is a long […]

]]> 5b47044e6596ddff3ebda971d8d3687f Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=42204 Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:51:25 +0300 THE TOP 10 OF 'EVERYTHING UGANDAN POETRY': Top 10 Ugandan Male Performance Poets So today, permit me to share with you my second list from my compilation of ‘The Top 10 of Everything Ugandan Poetry’. Everything I write/rate here is based […]

]]> 127cf06fc889236c6c3f7a3b783af627 Kagayi Ngobi changed their profile picture https://muwado.com/activity/p/23621/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:47:05 +0300 0 1333a54cdad10a7ee9d6668aa25bdb39 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=42063 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:24:39 +0300 A TOP 10 LIST OF 'EVERYTHING UGANDAN POETRY': Ugandan Female Performance Poets So, I’m going to be sharing various lists of my ’10 Top of Everything Ugandan Poetry.’ All the information is based on my own meandering experience with […]

]]> fcc68da0625050c622150849c55c0909 Kagayi Ngobi's profile was updated https://muwado.com/activity/p/23570/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:10:43 +0300 0 4640418d025a6538200fb0f3f1abd45a Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=41940 Thu, 18 Jan 2024 06:28:55 +0300 NOSTALGIA! I started collecting and memorizing poems for fun when I was a teenager. It was a habit I copied from my brother (now pastor Isaac Waiswa of Christ’s Heart […]

]]> 9d77b6c6deaafbae0b0cddb3dbffbfd3 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=40493 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:30:30 +0300 POINT OF CORRECTION, MADAM SPEAKER: A POETRY COLLECTION IS NOT A POETRY ANTHOLOGY! For many years Ugandan poetry critics have shaped our thoughts, attitudes and tastes […]

]]> 54c66463e9b334efd71d8f1ce1befc21 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=40084 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:08:44 +0300 KAMPOT-HOLE! KAMPOT-HOLE! Through our potholes we speak Through our potholes we breathe Through our potholes we see As if iron sheets were not enough As if […]

]]> f33d581d1f1c4de559417bf1222e0fcb Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=40081 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:05:11 +0300 A PROPOSAL TO HAVE ‘MEDIOCRE VERSE‘ AS A GENRE OF UGANDAN POETRY At Philip Matogo’s book launch a few weeks back, one of the members in the audience put up his hand a […]

]]> 2dc6e819116e699da222e11b015c1384 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=40078 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 09:47:33 +0300 UGANDAN POETRY BOOKS ARE NOW FLOWING LIKE WATER 2023 might be the year poets in Uganda finally reveal how publishing their works has become a significant aspect of […]

]]> 6e99c98c24c6d8769750947127a24e0a Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=40075 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 09:42:08 +0300 Moments that stood out for me at the BROKEN VOICES Ladu Poetry Event . First, that the poetrynuer Mark Gordon Musinguzi has kept Ladu going for this long without […]

]]> 770229bb44ae4dc7943cf3904489a303 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=36454 Sat, 14 Aug 2021 11:45:03 +0300 Yessssss!!!!!! THE NEW HEADLINE THAT MORNING is coming out soon for your reading pleasure.Thank you all who have bought, read, taught performed and recommended my works. Without our readers, what would we writers […]

]]> a84c52b665438f60e89f9387b4a8a884 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=35125 Tue, 04 May 2021 08:34:16 +0300 For me, this ‘Muwunya!’ incident has reminded me of MDD training in High Schools.

You people, me I have seen performance arts trainers who make trauma a routine of engagement with learners during training, […]

]]> 9ff801d91be1e62631b674ab826abaab Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=32453 Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:57:09 +0300 I could tell you
Of this artists cradle:

But the Green Room
has my eyes locked away

No dancers
No poets
No singing voices

The waiting pew
Of the National  theatre is empty,
The show we are waiting for
Is […]

]]> 75ac428b835dcb8c6b1a61179ec03e66 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=28835 Fri, 15 May 2020 06:20:20 +0300 The first time I was confronted by the reality that a good number of young poets were ‘sounding and moving like me’ while performing poetry, I was still a literature teacher and poetry coach at Nabisunsa Girls […]

]]> 46b2db8b46afe72a0182ea3b9393dead Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=28495 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 03:19:04 +0300 A poetry anthology is a collection of poems by different poets, whose purpose of selection, arrangement, editing and publication is normally determined by the person who selects, arranges and edits the poems, […]

]]> 550361e23f7182992ef5f536e993bb79 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=28378 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 01:47:23 +0300 In 2009, in my initial days as a ‘Lantern Meet Poet’, I went to Dr. Susan Kiguli’s office to deliver a copy of a poem she had asked for. The poem I DID IT FOR ME, written by Lillian Kampororo, had been performed […]

]]> cf2b2ec3b294eadf77f4c55befda64a5 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=28253 Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:54:05 +0300 Somehow we survive
and tenderness, frustrated, does not wither.

Investigating searchlights rake
our naked unprotected contours. . . .
boots club the peeling door.

But somehow we survive
severance, deprivation, […]

]]> a3c4dffc715c8ac51185ee16aa6a4b8b Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=27850 Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:34:09 +0300 cf16f13253b9515340c7a96db4665b68 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=26415 Wed, 06 Nov 2019 11:22:56 +0300 What makes a poet? Is it the ability to write poems, because if you do not write, how can you be a poet? Is it the ability to orally perform poems? But if you do not orate your poems, how can you be a poet? Or is […]

]]> 6b697a1365e0bd67466128e8b3427672 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=26336 Sun, 27 Oct 2019 13:34:16 +0300 If you are an ardent reader/listener of the literature on Uganda’s State Violence (past, present and future), you may be dismayed, but you’re not in disbelief. The Makerere situation is not unique in the way the […]

]]> 136688f134f3f21db79aab63a5ca903d Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13569 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:41:16 +0300 Recently a friend, Kidron, while disagreeing with my stance on the concept of performance poetry in Kampala spaces today, made a point which reminded me of the brutal reality we face as Ugandan poets today.

In […]

]]> cd791a9b1e186512383fc44b00afda20 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=3301 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:09:57 +0300 NIGHTMARES

I have lingered in our historic monasteries

And discerned a death among the dusty pages

Of him who fell silently as the story itself;

I have released my mind to wander

The great distances of time […]

]]> 1d33c635f1fa33d05e9ea24aa52e077d Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=3250 Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:19:29 +0300 Do you know what I feel
when I feel your love?

Now, picture a warm bed
on a cold night
the window creaking
I, craving a breeze,
unbolt its captivity
and I freeze
My shoulders cringe
Needing me to spread my […]

]]> 963ff3914d34d46a4a32982ec59bae17 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=3224 Mon, 30 May 2016 09:44:25 +0300 I stood and saw you take the front seat of my memory.
You were on a train
Writing poetry
While I, last night,
Told a stranger all about you.

The eye of the lightbulb flickered
Into my heart, and in my mind,
With […]

]]> 6982d929120b15d57ab3db20be5c75dd Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=2986 Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:07:25 +0300 My heart always warms to thoughts of you. You, just seated across me, besides me, lying next to me. Your smile; sassy stare; your hugs I feel all at once. My soul in you is in auto-motion. You rush into my close […]

]]> 67a78d935501b3e2ef966cf95deafc73 Kagayi Ngobi wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=2733 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 07:11:04 +0300 THE FIRST BONFIRE POETRY EXPERIENCE ON INDEPENDENCE NIGHT ANNOUNCED!

9TH OCTOBER 2015, at THE UGANDA MUSUEM

TICKETS FOR BOOKING, STARTING TODAY (15TH SEPTEMBER)!

‘Kagayi and friends’ present WHO BROKE THE EMP […]

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