Literature | Joel B Ntwatwa

Relevance, Inclusion, Unlearning : Thoughts in my Writivism 2017 Diary

You go to Writivism and you expect to see somewhat the same faces you see in the Literary fraternity. And expectations always turn into reality. […]

By the end of last year, I happened to be caught up in a discussion about Uganda’s best fiction works. One name kept coming up, […]

This afternoon, I got a chance to have a brief but very insightful chat with Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva about writing. Beverley, if you do not […]

Men of the South by Zukiswa Wanner My rating: 3 of 5 stars Men of the South is my first contemporary African read and what […]

God’s Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène My rating: 4 of 5 stars Before you read the book, God’s Bits of Wood seems a strange […]

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah My rating: 3 of 5 stars The moment you put down this book, you […]

A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o My rating: 3 of 5 stars After finishing the book, I kept wondering, how was Ngugi able […]

Something a thousand words miserably fail to explain Verbs and nouns falling like leaves on the ground In an attempt to speak the life of this […]