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Today we are joined by poet, novelist, and comics writer Mugabi Byenkya!
Mugabi Byenkya is an award-winning writer, poet and occasional rapper.
Mugabi was longlisted for the Babishai Niwe Poetry Award in 2015. His essays and poetry have been published in The Good Men Project, The Mighty, and Skin Deep, in addition to over 25 other publications. He has been interviewed on Voice of America, NTV Uganda, Africa In Dialogue and Brittle Paper, among 40 other media outlets.
In 2018, Mugabi was named one of 56 writers who has contributed to his native Uganda’s literary heritage in the 56 years since independence by Writivism. Dear Philomena was named a Ugandan bestseller in the same year.
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Today we are joined by poet, novelist, and comics writer Mugabi Byenkya!
Mugabi Byenkya is an award-winning writer, poet and occasional rapper.
Mugabi was longlisted for the Babishai Niwe Poetry Award in 2015. His essays and poetry have been published in The Good Men Project, The Mighty, and Skin Deep, in addition to over 25 other publications. He has been interviewed on Voice of America, NTV Uganda, Africa In Dialogue and Brittle Paper, among 40 other media outlets.
In 2018, Mugabi was named one of 56 writers who has contributed to his native Uganda’s literary heritage in the 56 years since independence by Writivism. Dear Philomena was named a Ugandan bestseller in the same year.