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Meet Shadows author Novuyo Rosa Tshuma: Live Skype Interview Sunday 17th June 2012
Your chance to put your questions to Novuyo Rosa Tshuma in a live Skype interview Virtual Launch of her book Shadows on Sunday 17 June at 1800GMT Add Skype name ShadowsNovuyoRosaTshuma Novuyo says “Let’s engage in a book reading and question and answer segment. Now is the time to ask all those burning questions. Pass … Read more
‘A great deal of energy and vigour’ : A young poet experiments with old ways in a new Zimbabwe : Words by Garreth Tembo, featured image by Maina Boniface
We at Kushinda have a threefold criteria for that which we celebrate, in terms of our selection process this can be summed up with the following: we seek the creative, the idiosyncratic, and the culturally aware. Within that scope we are happy to work with writers and artists at all levels, be they young and … Read more
Mocking the mocking bird: A poet’s response to the tweeting masses. Words by Frank Odongkara. Photography by Rumanzi Canon
Frank Odongkara is C.E.O of Artorion Inc. and a student of Computer Engineering at Makerere University. He loves poetry, art, robotics, physics, electronics, rap and rock. He hates time. More of his poetry at ithinkfrank. Featured photography by Rumanzi Canon who designed the cover artwork for Fables Out Of Nyanja. More from his Sadistic Posers series … Read more
Shadows, a Novella : Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Southern Africa’s burning new talent, joins Kushinda
2012 began with a bang for our publishing subsidiary. Now hosted on its own fully-fledged website, www.kushinda.com, Kushinda the Publisher is already exploring new literary skies and finding exceptional new writing talent that emboldens our love for the idiosyncratic, the indigenous and the culturally aware. As 2012 continues to unfold, our portfolio is thickening by … Read more
We don’t want to be selfish (winks) : An interview with Maasai Mbili Art Centre and a Thought from the Editor
An inpromptu online interview with Maasai Mbili Art Centre’s Kevo Stero in Kibera, Kenya, clipped with just a little editing fresh from the web. With art from Maasai Mbili artists and the following thought from your editor : Whose art is it anyway ? Paintings by Kev Stero Ceris Dien tell me more about Maasai … Read more
Words squeezed and bodies teased : Brian Bwesigye ‘Floored’ in Uganda, featured art by Sun Ray of Finland
Introducing Sun Ray of Finland : Digital Porn Mosaics : More from Sun Ray on the Gallery Page Here Plus ‘Floored‘ by Brian Bwesigye, a young Ugandan writer and human rights activist, squeezed and teased for your undoubted pleasure. Floored Wow! Breathless! Yes, breathless! Hmm, Weakness! Yes, Softness! Hmm, the strength is left in one … Read more
Our Portraits, Our People : What happens when you give a kid who has nothing a paintbrush …
Teach a child to paint, then … they see, you see, we see New work by a group of 11 – 17 year olds in Kampala, Uganda, members of the Imagine Us Here 2011 project Our Portraits, Our People. Jointly designed by Social Enterprise Africa and Kushinda, funded by Bayimba International Festival of Arts and … Read more
Shine Baby Shine : New poet Kris Chris on ‘mekin money’ in Uganda – featured art by Osian Efnisien in Wales
23 year old Kris Chris lives in Kampala City, Uganda, where he grew up with an innate creative passion for words and pictures, scribbling his way through childhood with a charred cassava root for a pencil. Osian Efinisien, our first non-African artskushinda artist, designs mini advertising campaigns and posters for usually non-existent clients. Often … Read more
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