The Weavings of Life;
a collection of stories
(pub. Dec’25)
Two girls form a friendship and in that cave of tenderness find the freedom to confront the lingering ghosts of surviving a war that has shrouded everything they know about themselves and the world they live in. A young woman arrives at the job of her dreams, in a city far from home and there the haunting memories of her childhood demand to be felt. Soon to be married, a modern woman negotiates with herself through evolving reminders of socio-cultural expectations and limitations that conflict with her own sense of identity.
Lacing eleven stories from the colourfully chaotic streets of Kampala; the historic happenings that characterise Gulu; the forgotten legends of Ankole land; and the carryings of home that travel with us all over the world;
The Weavings of Life lends a reflective tableau into the lives of Ugandan women existing in contemporary times as they shuttle between feelings and experiences of loss and yearning, triumph and grief and face the contradictions of home, belonging, culture and faith.
ebyabandizeho (the first ones)
poems and liturgies
(pub. Dec’23), (Aug’24), (Jan’25)
ebyeshongoro bya Debra (songs of Debra) and okwetonganira kwa Stefie (Stefie’s speech) and ebirooto bya Josie (Josie’s dream) are collections of poems offering political and social commentary that reflects the state of our worlds and our lives in it.
The collections present and merge the past, present and future, writing to the sufferings, joys and hopes of our times. Through the poems, we go 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 books are written with the intention of preserving collective memory and reconstructing the world and our lives in it. 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. The books are written primarily in english and runyankore.
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“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” -Toni Cade Bambara
okwetonganira kwa Stefie cover art painting by Twasiima
Medusa; to mean; a woman who refuses to be tamed painting by Twasiima
