Kiguli, Robinswood Middle School in poetry collabo
-
Loading... - Dembe Matovu
- 15 Mar 2023
- 52 Views
- 0 Like
- 0 Comment
A few years ago, a rural Ugandan primary school and an urban American middle school broke bread through a series of letters under a pen pal project.
Then, as their epistolary conversations were in leaf, the two schools decided to write a poetry anthology entitled, “The Songs of Kiguli International Edition.”
The two schools, Kiguli Army Primary School of Nakasongola District, and Robinswood Middle School of Orlando, US, set their precision passions on the head of a pin and their words burst the bubbles of those who doubted such a collaboration was even possible.
This anthology was originated by the Kiguli Army Primary Poetry Project.
Teachers of Robinswood Middle School, Cindy Camp and Katherine Rascoe, reached out to Kiguli Army Primary School, which is a school for the wards and orphans of Ugandan soldiers, in order to turn the authorial dreams of the pupils of both schools into reality. In the process, the marked cultural diversities of Uganda and US were incarnated and projected in primary colours.
The Ugandan poets favoured a more post-modernist free verse style with clear elements of form while the American poets wrote their verse in Haikus, found poems and free verse. Read More…
