Fairway Hotel in Kampala is silent on the rainy May evening that Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist, stands to read her poetry. The Uganda International Writers Conference has just ended, but most of the delegates are still here. In fact, the crowd seems larger than it was during the […]
Red Dust Road
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Patrick Alfter learnt about the 4th edition of the Uganda International Writers Conference (UIWC) purely by coincidence, which he is rather very thankful for. A postgraduate student of English Literature and Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, Mr Alfter was in Uganda a month before the Conference opened […]
I’ve probably written or talked about my writing story more than I can count. And at the core of the story is a sentence. Every time I think about it, exhilaration sparks even if for a brief moment. “if something is for you, you can’t run away from it”. That’s […]
Jackie Kay takes you on a journey as she reads an excerpt from her memoir ‘Red Dust Road.’ Published in 2010 by Picador .You are transported to a hotel room in Nigeria and her born-again father is trying to convince her to accept Christ as her saviour. You feel like […]