A first collected works by a Ugandan woman poet, Mildred Kiconco Barya, who has had her poems published in journals in Uganda and the US. The work is divided into sections entitled:’Poems of Challenge’;’Poems o…

This directory is the first of its kind. It aims to promote Ugandan literature and its authors. Its purpose is to be both a toool and a manisfesto for the recent revival of literature in Uganda. One hundred and…

The author, Mary Karooro Okurut, is a celebrated columnist, a former literature lecturer, and the founder of Uganda Women Writers’ Association. She is also a playwright and has published children’s literature. …

This compelling family saga tells of three generations of a Tutsi family. It begins with the arranged marriage of Stella to an older man of the same tribe whom she has never met. She is prematurely withdrawn fr…

Edited by Ayeta Anne Wangusa. An anthology of eight short stories, inspired by a project of the Uganda Women Writers’ Association (Femrite) working with women attending legal aid clinics in southwest Uganda …

Marina, a Rwandan child and her family experience the horror of the war in the 1990s. Her parents are killed, and she is cared for in an orphanage, where an Italian priest favours her and tries to plan a better…

The first short story anthology by Ugandan women includes twelve stories. They vividly illuminate the courage and endurance of Ugandan women in the face of hardships and social injustice. The book is published …

Written in the first person, this fictional biography tells the deeply moving story of a Ugandan woman forced to trade the romantic idealism of her youth for a mundane marriage, based on outmoded rules and obli…

Words from a Granary is the second anthology of short stories by Ugandan women to be published by the Ugandan Women Writers’ Association, Femrite. It is the outcome of a three-year programme of workshops geared…

Written against the backdrop of the turbulent 1980s, Cassandra is a self-confident and ambitious Ugandan girl who is determined to reach the top without the aid of men. She believes women have more options than…

Often it is the tragedies that befall us that bring out the best in us in terms of creative talent. This is reflected in this short-story anthology. From the origins of life – and its antithesis, death – throug…