Uganda poetry
The Miniskirt by Richard Ntiru
To visualize what you can’t see; That’s the paradoxical pleasure of the mind. In the afterbirth of seeing, Death of i…
Uganda poetry
Uganda poetry
If It Is True by Richard Ntiru
If it is true that the world talks too much then let’s all keep quiet and hear the eloquence of silence If it is true…
Uganda poetry
From Song of Prisoner (1970) by Okot p’Bitek
Is today not my father’s Funeral anniversary? My clansmen and clanswomen Are gathering in our village, They sit in ci…
Uganda poetry
From The Song of Lawino (1966) by Okot p'Bitek,
Listen, my clansmen, I cry over my husband Whose head is lost. Ocol has lost his head In the forest of books. When my…