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"This book has punctured the popular view of prisoners as undesirables against whom society needs to protect itself. It has brought out the wealth of talents, the creativity and above all, the shared humanity of those who have, for one reason or another, found themselves behind bars. The stories and poems in this volume not only convey to us the degrading experience and defeated aspirations of prisoners but also quite often, the deep remorse felt about the past as well as the yearning to be reabsorbed in mainstream society"-Professor Arthur Gakwandi

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.

An Interview with Timothy Wangusa. Hello sir, My name is Natasha Sebunya. I am a huge fan of ANTHEM FOR AFRICA. My, it’s so rich. Thank […]