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16/01/2023

We are back! After a much needed break, we are back in the office. To start off our year, we are calling for submissions to Bold Continental Call 2023. The theme for this year is Climate Change. We want your short stories and poems on the effects of climate change in Africa.

Submit your story or poem to https://journal.ibuapublishing.com/continental-calls/

22/08/2022

Ever wondered Why Sunflowers Follow The Sun? Join us this Saturday, the 27th of August, as we find out. Buy a ticket or sponsor a child for a day of fun, games, book reading, face painting and so much more...

Call 0781879137 to buy a ticket.

15/04/2022

Call for submissions!

Ibua Publishing announces the Bold 2022 Continental Call under the theme: Food. For more details on the theme and submission guidelines, please check out the link in the bio



https://ibuajournal.com/continental-calls/

Bold Continental Call 2022 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Theme: FOOD Ibua Publishing invites writers to send submissions for the Bold 2022 Continental Call under the theme Food. Our various cultures boast of rich food traditions. But beyond its sustenance, food is a complex element of life on this continent....

25/10/2021

MANY TIMES people have asked us who we are. We prefer to tell them why we are:

There is a fire that lights when an African writes a story. It's effects reverberate with endless possibilities; Franchises, Careers, Livelihoods, Box-office successes.🔥

But this fire is a flickering flame. Threatened by many circumstances of the times. A lot goes into protecting this aspiring inferno, discovering, training and much more.

All that, you can leave to us. Ibua publishing will play the role of keeping the fire of the African story burning and alive.🔥

Our efforts notwithstanding, we ask that YOU, be a part of it. Help us give value back to the writers and the team that runs this initiative. How?

Subscribe to ibuajournal.com and unlock an assortment of African stories from cultures and writers all over the continent.🔥

You can subscribe here: https://ibuajournal.com/product/annual-subscription/

22/09/2021

Packlight: Memoirs of Growing Up In Africa was released in September 2020. In this article, Racheal Kizza reviewed the issue and showed why you'll need to read it yourself.

You can read the Packlight Collection (together with two other issues) for just $15 or 52000UGX.

https://rachealkizza.com/book-review-pack-light-memoirs-of-growing-up-in-africa/

Pack Light is a collection of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by writers across continental Africa. The collection was launched on 3rd September 2020 by Ibua Publishing. I love collections/antholo…

17/08/2021

The Golden Stars of Sebei.
Peruth Chemutai
Joshua Cheptegei
Jacob Kiplimo

Ibua Journal joins Uganda in honouring your outstanding achievement . We celebrate your unfailing commitment to seeing your dream through.

15/08/2021

The future will look like vaccine passports and antivaxers and the so many politics surrounding Covid-19 are sure to not stop. How do we, as a developing nation, deal with this?

09/08/2021

Did you start yet? Writing? A week has gone by like a flash. The time’s never right it seems but the opportunity still stands.

Today, write; during your lunch break, just before bed, even while you have breakfast. Write, on your phone, in your journal, on your laptop, wherever you must, just write.

Is the idea stuck in your head with no outlet? Did you start writing and now it is a thousand words in and nowhere to go? Here is a technique we learned in our short fiction lab.

Make a Story Map
Who are you characters? What are they doing? Where is your story happening? What are the key events in your story? What is the crisis? How is it resolved? Is the crisis resolved?

Prompt 1: It is 4 am in the morning. The car won't start.
Prompt 2: Someone you haven't seen in many years texts you. A secret is revealed.
Prompt 3: Your cat dies from a mysterious illness. There is wailing at your window in the night.
Write a 2000- 3000 word story. DM it to Ibua socials or [email protected] under the heading 'August: I shall write'. Ibua reviewers' best selected story will be shared on Facebook.

07/08/2021

Times have changed, life is different. While we would have loved to host this play in person, we can't. So we bring this production to your screens at a subsidized price. See the poster for details and support the arts.

04/08/2021

Hey you, are you ready for this? KILLING TIME is coming to your screen (mobile or otherwise) this August.

Starting tomorrow, 5th August, the play will be showing on www.ibuajournal.com every week for the next 6 weeks, from Thursday to Saturday.

See poster for screening times and prices.

03/08/2021

Hey you, are you ready for this?

KILLING TIME is coming to your screen (mobile or otherwise) this August. Starting 5th August, the play will be showing on www.ibuajournal.com every weekend from Thursday to Saturday for a good six weeks. See poster for screening times.

02/08/2021

Stories come in all shapes, sizes and sounds. One of the best stories I ever heard was the retelling of a njogerere version of the lion king. It was 1999. We were hanging out in class during our lunch break. Someone asked about the lion king. Of course I, being the know it all, quickly said I had watched it but I couldn’t tell the story properly. At least not the way I had experienced it. But oi! Mary could. Her intonations, her tension filled pauses, and when she said, ‘Mufasa, kidemu!’ I fell over my desk in stitches! Whoopi Goldberg’s Shenzi had never been funnier.

Some of us instinctively know how to tell a good story but how do we translate these tales on to the page? How do the best storytellers continue to enthrall us year after year? Talent plays a part, yes, but you would be surprised to find that mastering the art of story telling is much like learning to bake or barbeque. It is a skill honed with long hours of practice until it comes to you like breath.
No amount of reading, watching, learning, talking to writers, researching will write your story.

So, step 1; Write.

Prompt 1: It is 4 am in the morning. The car won't start. You need to rush to the hospital.
Prompt 2: Someone you haven't seen in many years texts you. A secret is revealed.

Write a 2000- 3000 word story. Dm it to Ibua socials or [email protected] under heading August: I shall write. Ibua reviewers' best selected story will be shared on Facebook.

Kunihira Rachel Masinde
Publisher
Ibua Publishing

01/08/2021

We pray that August is a month of peace and rest from all the turmoil and uncertainty of the Covid-19 waves. We, at Ibua, are excited about this month.
We start the screening of Killing Time, a play written by Aganza Kisaka, to the wide internet audience for the very first time. We hope it makes you laugh and helps you reflect on the kind of world you want to create for the next generation to inherit.

Last year in the middle of the first wave of the pandemic, we dared to dream a new Africa and we tasked writers all over Africa to write poems and short-stories that captured the new Africa they dreamed about. We called it, Bold Series: Imagining a New Africa. We are excited for you to experience these stories and poems.

Happy August everybody.

15/07/2021

On 17th July 2021, Ugandan writer, Doreen Baingana whose story, Lucky, was shortlisted for the 2021 AKO Caine Prize, talks to writer and culture journalist, David Kaiza, about her story, writing, reading, literature, and what it means to be an African writer in today's global and local context. Join the conversation via all our social media spaces.

12/07/2021

This Wednesday, will be holding a conversation with the women on the Ako Caine Prize Shortlist and the inimitable JNM will be part of the panel. This is sure to be a very engaging conversation, please don't miss out.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvfu2urjkrG9Ehin2M7jSV456iO8KvL1RS

06/07/2021

Literary nonfiction Lab; Essays, Memoirs, and Biographies

Are you interested in writing your personal or family story? Is it a historical account you want to capture in a book? Join our nonfiction Lab and get equipped with the tools to construct your story from the ground up.

The duration of the lab is 6 months, with 3 months contact and 3 months grad story writing
The entry story that you submit should be 6000 words minimum.

Writers who successfully complete the lab will be published online and in print.

03/06/2021

Martyrs are people who lost their lives for what they believed in, politically and religiously.

The Uganda Martyrs are a group of 23 Anglican and 22 Catholic converts to Christianity in the Buganda Kingdom, who were executed between 31 January 1885 and 27 January 1887. They were killed on orders of Mwanga II, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda during a time when there was a religious struggle for political influence at the Buganda royal court.

We celebrate the Uganda Martyrs today and their sacrifice.

02/06/2021

We have exciting news to share! Doreen Baingana's story, Lucky, was shortlisted for the . Lucky, which was published by Ibua Journal, is about a boy that survives the unsurvivable.

Congratulations Doreen!!!!!!