In the foreword, Kagayi Ngobi, the founding editor of the Kitara Nation Poetry Series casually runs over the founding mission of Kitara Nation, and if you haven't been paying attention to the writing scene in East Africa, a sentence like "the poems in this anthology were collected from the various poetry programs run in/for Ugandan High Schools between 2017 and 2018 to popularize poetry as a culture of performance arts" may spill the water it is carrying through our literary desert.