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ebyeshongoro bya Debra (songs of Debra)
Written in english and runyankore, ebyeshongoro bya Debra is a collection of poems offering political and social commentary chronicling the times we find ourselves in, the state of the world and the feelings of our hearts. The collection is the first in a trilogy.
Using honest recollections, Twasiima looks at the ways our histories continue to influence our present and makes demands of us to sit with both the contradictions and un-comfortabilities that emerge. She writes with the intention of teaching and inspiring others to imagine and work towards liberation.
ebyeshongoro bya Debra is set out in five chapters dubbed Epistemologies.
ISBN: 978-9913-9727-0-3
okwetonganira kwa Stefie (Stefie’s speech)
okwetonganira kwa Stefie is the second set in a trilogy coming after ebyeshongoro bya Debra.
The collection is a going back through our histories to confront the ways in which our societies have been formed while weaving for how we can form new ways of being. The book presents and merges the past, present and future; writing to the sufferings, joys and hopes of our times. As she writes, Twasiima uses honest reflections to call attention to questions of identity, loss, freedom and other related themes that form the fabric of how we experience life. She writes with the intention of preserving collective memory and reconstructing the world and our lives in it.
okwetonganira kwa Stefie is set out in five chapters dubbed The Canonical Books.
ISBN: 978-9913-645-90-4