If you haven't read this book. Make it a point to read it this year.

We need to make those connections of ways in which the justice system is intentionally rolling back rights of girls and women in Uganda and the parallels on how the public seems to be increasingly lending support to rapists, humanizing them while victims are silenced.

[narrator voice] “witness the tender moment the academic reconnects with the draft they abandoned 8 years ago”

Sylvia Tamale was born in 1962. She studied at Budo Junior School (1969-1975), Gayaza High School (1976-1982), and then joined Makerere University in 1982 where she completed her Bachelor of Laws degree with honours.

In 1988, she completed a Master of Laws degree at Harvard

A reminder to be wary of the word 'evacuation.' The residents of Rafah are displaced, and are being displaced yet again in a process of ethnic cleansing. Evacuating implies going somewhere safe - nowhere is.

Book mail.

Michigan Quarterly Review’s African Writing issue guest edited by Abani.

universities upset that the students who they accepted for being critical thinkers and wanting to have a positive impact on the world, actually critically think and try to positively impact the world

Ronald Ross was born in 1857. As Historian safia aidid has pointed out Somalis told the British explorer Francis Burton in 1856 that mosquitos cause malaria.

If another country arrested that many students and professors in one day, the US would be deeply concerned

Faculty getting arrested to protect their students is far more important and valuable than anything their academic colleagues will ever accomplish professionally—publications, books, tenure etc.

New book from University of Rochester Press examines how current novels dealing with African #migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration. buff.ly/3Jd9V13

Yes. I wrote this book and I hope you will buy and read it!

Approach the creativity of others gently with caution, curiosity and courtesy. Never with cynicism, with that you might as well close your eyes.

How exactly does Uganda's diaspora fit into the countries FDI and foreign investment strategy?

Book mail from Jonathan Ball Publishers they are bringing back these classical titles from the original Heinemann African Writers Series from the 1960s from Ngungi to Emecheta to La Guma and Marachera and many more ❤️📚

Order your copies from Book Circle Capital 📚

i’m so happy to see new african litmags. we need more. we need publishing houses, book clubs, bookstores, litfests. we need to support all of them. this is how we build the infrastructure. this how we get an ecosystem. 👏🏿

📣Calling all African women non-fiction writers!

Apply to Cassava Republic 's 10-day writing workshop this July in Johannesburg, South Africa. Refine your craft and publish in the anthology 'TABOO’. Apply by May 31, 2024 here ⇢ bit.ly/3U2qIuc

“I don’t know how to do anything else but write. For me, writing is to be alive. When I stop writing, I stop living.”

- Maryse Condé

I am honored to be selected as a National Writing Juror for the 2024 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (Scholastic Art & Writing Awards) hosted by the nonprofit org Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. I am excited to read & evaluate student work from all over the United States. #grateful #thankful