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THE SAVANNAH KNOWS NO FRIENDS – Poems From 13 Ugandan High Schools
UGX20,000
This book, the first anthology of its kind, encompasses poems collected from 3 different national High School poetry programs. It could perhaps be the only book of this kind in East Africa.
Excerpt
“So I seize the vocabulary of complaint
And transform it into a language of discontent
For long I have endured being soft-hearted
But I can’t bear being soft-headed.
If only words were bullets that shoot our tormentors!
“Those that slice and dice us
Into us and them, we and they
Those that dissect our society into layers of class.
Those that describe us in shapes and size
And see is through lenses of slavery.
“I talk of those ingrates
Those corrupt, carnivorous, hyenas.
Who have stripped Africa naked of her dignity
And plastered her colonial wounds
With bondages of civil wars and genocide…”
CLARION CALL by Nakaweesa Ruth, Mount of Olives College, Mukono
Author
THE SAVANNAH KNOWS NO FRIENDS is an anthology of poems from 13 high schools which are;
- Aga Khan High School, Kampala
- Bishop Angello Negri College, Gulu
- Busoga College Mwiri, Jinja
- Gayaza High School, Wakiso
- Greenhill Academy, Kampala
- Gulu S.S.S. Gulu
- Lowell Girls’ School, Mpigi
- Mandela S.S.S. Hoima
- Mount of Olives College, Mukono
- Sacred Heart Girls S.S.S. Gulu
- Denis S.S.S. Ssebugwaawo Ggaba, Kampala
- Maria Goretti Katende, Mpigi
- Mary’s College Kisubi, Wakiso
Publishing Particulars of the Book
ISBN: 9-798654-850-83-6
Format: Paperback & Kindle
Language: English, Luganda
Number Of Pages: 64
Published: 2020
Publisher: Kitara Nation
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