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The Monkey That Honors the Lion’s Invitation Must Sit Next to a Tree
In the heart of Nyungwe Forest, where the canopy shimmered with morning dew and the wind carried the wisdom of ancestors, lived a monkey named Kato. He was small, sprightly, […] More
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My Maths Teacher Hates Me, Paul Ugbede
My maths teacher hates me. He asked me to find y. I mean, how can I find y, something missing a long time ago? My brother and sister had tried […] More
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Gipiir and Labongo #4
By Ashley “How could a person’s beauty overshadow the moon’s radiance?” Labongo thought to himself as he watched his anyadwer gracefully dancing with the other girls around the fire. Her […] More
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Sons of the gods #10
Continued from #9 By Mugabe Victor Feene; is a fruit that grows from a tree and can be found in many parts of Uganda. It is rough on the outside […] More
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Whispers, Emmanuel Ssebaggala
[box type=”info” align=”aligncenter” ]This is one of the stories that came out of the Writivism 2014, a project of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, with the assistance of several partner organisations, which identifies, trains […] More
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‘Morning Has Broken’ by Dave Ndyanabo
She looked so peaceful. Nothing looked amiss. She cut the most tranquil picture of sleeping beauty if ever there was one. Except she wasn’t sleeping. She was dead. Interesting that […] More
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Account of a Street Urchin, Jude Mutuma
[box type=”info” align=”aligncenter” ]This is one of the stories that came out of the Writivism 2014, a project of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, with the assistance of several partner organisations, which identifies, trains […] More
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Gipiir and Labongo #1
By Mugabe Victor It is said that the way of man is never a straight path. It is easier to find suffering than joy, poison than food; enemies than brothers. […] More
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Gipiir and Labongo #2
By Mugabe Victor The crowd was a mess at this point. People scattered about as they tried to find their homes within the chaos. Gipiir could feel his brother’s hand […] More
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A Coming of Age Story Featuring TKZee
To cut the long story short, my grandparents and uncles road-tripped from South Africa to Uganda in a VW Van (the nice ones with round lights) to spend Christmas with […] More
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in Community & Opinion, Family, Friends and Relationships, Fiction, Identity & Culture, Law, Crime and Justice, Religion and Spirituality, Writing and LiteratureATYAP: A fair fight.
Two more seconds and poor Umar would have soiled his clothes with the watery mess of bad beans he had eaten for lunch. He dashed across the grass fields of […] More
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in FictionWAKAYIMA OF TROPICAL HILLS ACADEMY Ep 13: NATALIA HAD A SWEET
Episode 12 Natalia had a mint. Not the chewing gum mints, the ones you suck. The sweet mints. Now, there were three problems here. One is that few people sell […] More
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Sons of the gods #15
Continued from #14 By Ashley Katabani blankly stared at the darkness before him. “The way of the man,” he thought to himself. One time it is this; then it changes […] More
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in Fiction#SSWCIII – ‘Daddy’s Little Girl’ by Prossy Bnk
I used to hear some folks in our city say that nobody was perfect but I bet those folks had never met my dad for he was the best and […] More
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The smell of mangoes, peaches and guavas and the moan of mating dogs
WHEN her mother told her about Siphiwe Nkabinde’s death, Nomazulu knew she had to make one of the most adult decisions of her life, as she had to decide if […] More
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in Fiction
The Tales of Achelo
The Mystery Episode 1 My obsession with pessimism had been the driving force of fear within me. It had become my habit to think about it every night. Nothing could […] More
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Sons of the gods #13
Continued from Sons of the gods 12 By Mugabe Victor The world seemed frozen. Katabani sat there, struck immobile by the story. A moment of silence somehow reminded the boy […] More
