After speeches and readings, the book is launched and the socialising starts, though we\u2019re in darkness by now. Jackee Batanda (who was once writer in residence at Lancaster) arrives with Mary Okurut. Then I\u2019m kidnapped with two young Americans, Liz and Anne Therese, by ex-pat Vivien Craddock Williams and driven, rather madly, to the Athenia restaurant in Kololo, to a graduation party. We meet Derek, the graduate, a prince, a princess, some Greek Ugandans and the oldest muzungu in Kampala, John, who\u2019s 96!\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re complete strangers but received with great hospitality and a huge plate of traditional Ugandan food. They try to drag us to the dance floor, but by now we\u2019re pretty tired and slip sideways and back to Makerere for a late beer and a long talk about our projects, Uganda, and where home is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The day starts with a power cut on Makerere campus. Then into the museum with Hilda to set up the poetry workshop \u2013 20 students, most of them also attending the Tuesday session. The atmosphere is much more relaxed this time and we work through a range of individual and collaborative exercises exploring metaphor, image… Continue reading Reading Uganda<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Femrite_Never_Too_Late.jpg\" "\\"Femrite_Never_Too_Late\\"")
<\/a>After the workshop we have to launch a new Femrite anthology\u00a0Never Too Late<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 short stories intended to provoke discussion of sexual and social issues amongst teenagers. The Chairperson of Femrite, Mary Okurut, is late, so we decide to use a reading of our two new poems to introduce the event. The power is still out, so a generator is thumping outside. The use of Luganda and other languages has an immediate appeal to the audience.<\/p>\n