OUR VERY FIRST LUGANDA POETRY WORKSHOP

Leave a comment

Essanyu! Essanyu!

Babishai is bringing something new in 2019. On Saturday 26 January 2019, we’ll be holding our very first Luganda poetry workshop. Why not? For long, we have discussed about how our mother tongues enrich us, how the poetry and songs from our homes add music to our lives and meaning to our souls. Well, Babishai decided to do something about it.

Saturday 26 January 2019 we will be at 4Reign Office at the Lower Parking of Hotel Equatoria, from 10:00am to 1:00pm, filling our lives with the wealth of Luganda poetry.

Our facilitators are

Nakisanze Segawa, an award-winning Babishai poet and extraordinary performer of Luganda poetry. She has translated some of the most celebrated works world-wide into Luganda.

 

Lule Ssebo Lule is a poet from Kitara Nation, who has changed the landscape of poetry through his unapologetic approach to Luganda and performance.

Don’t miss this one-on-a-kind opportunity.

**********

 

 

 

SARAH IJANGOLET AKOL: BABISHAI’S SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

Leave a comment

Introducing Sarah Ijangolet Akol; the new Babishai Social Media Manager

Sarah Marione Ijangolet Akol is an artist and graphic designer based in Kampala, Uganda, proficient in traditional painting but choosing digital art as a medium of expression – including the design of wearable art in the form of t-shirts and other casual apparel.
Having developed and cultivated a passion for art from a young age, Sarah studied fine art in O and A level at Mt St Mary’s Namagunga and Gayaza High School respectively, and attained a Bachelor’s Degree of Industrial and Fine Art at Uganda Christian University, Mukono in 2017. In 2018, she decided to enrich herself with the skill of Illustration, an interest she developed from exposure to storybooks and comics. She hopes to use this skill to illustrate her own book of Ugandan folk tales.
Sarah is passionate about vector illustration and portraiture and is fascinated by Ugandan folklore and mythology, a lot of her work being an exploration of the rich world of Ugandan fantasy and mythos as passed down from generation to generation. She chooses not to be limited in her depiction of Ugandan deities and supernatural beings, allowing her imagination to stretch and mould their visages and appearances to accommodate how truly extraordinary the tales about them are. In doing so, hopes to conserve as many of these folk tales as possible.
Welcome on board, Sarah!