Beverley Nambozo

**Beverley Nambozo** Nsengiyunva munayuganda omuwandiisi, w'ebitontome,  muzannyi wa firimu, mulwanirizi w'eddembe ng'ayita mu kuwandiika, n'okuwandiika ebikwatagana ku bantu. Yeeyatandikawo ekibiina kya Babishai Niwe (BN) Poetry Foundation ekyayitibwa nga abakyala okuva mu Uganda  nga kyatandikibwawo mu mwaka gwa 2008 ng'akatuuti n'okulaba ng'okuwandiika ebitontome kugenda mu maaso era kukulakulana. Kikuze era nekibeermu abawandiisi b'ebitontome okuva ku semazinga wa Afrika, ng'era kidukannyizibwa ng'ekigaba engule eri abo ababeera basinze okuwandiika ebitontome buli  mwaka.Mu mwaka gwa 2014, engule eno yayongerezebwayo neebuna semazinga yenna, ng'esira eritadde ku basajja n'abakazi. Mu mwaka gwegumu, ekibiina kino kyagenda mu maaso nekifulumya engero ezaali ziwerako nga ziri mu bungi okuva mu bawandiisi mu Afrika abaali bawerako. Era yeeyatandikawo etendekero lya Babishai Niwe Womenengero enyiimpi. Yalondebwa ku ky, engule eyasookera ddala nga yakuweebwa mukyala okuva mu Uganda. 

Nambozo yakolerako mu kitongle kya Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Institute, ku by'enkulakulana by'omukyala n'okulaba ng'agenda mu maaso (EASSI), mu kakiiko ka Bungereza, nga pulogulaamu eyali nga kuleediyo gyeyaweereza ng'okumala emyaka 2 ku mukutu gwa 104.1 Power FM mu Kampala. Yawerezaako ng'era y'akulira oba nga ye maneja ng'ow'ensonga z'abawuliriza, ng'ayita mukukola okunoonyereza okw'enjawulomu bantu. Nga  tanaba kukola ebyo, yaliko omusoma era eyali ayigiriza amazina kusomero lya Rainbow International School mu  Kampala. Okuva mu mwaka gwa 1999, abadde mu kibiinja ky'abazinyi b'amazina ekibadde kitegeka ebivulu mu makanisa ne mu bitundu eby'enjawulo. Nambozo abadde yeenyigira mu kakuyege w'okulaba ng'abavubuka mu masomero ga siniya ne yunivasite galwanyisa ekirwadde kya siriimu oba akawuka kamukenenya.

## Obulamu bwe n'eby'enjigiriza
Nambozo yazaalibwa omwamu Herbert Mugoya n'omukyala  Betty Mugoya. Kitaawe yali mukungu, ng'era yali abeera mu ggwanga lya Bungereza okumala emyaka 8 nga Nambozo akyali mwana muto. Yasomera ku Kampala parents school, Gayaza High School ne Makerere College School, nga tanaba kwegata ku setendekero ly'e Makerere gyeyafunira diguli mu byokusomesa n'okuwandiika mu luzungu. Alina ne satifikeeti mu lulimi olufalansa gyeyafunira kutendekero lya Alliance Française de Kampala, ssaako ne diguli ey'okubiri eyawukana mu kuyiiya ng'owandiika gyeyafunira kutendekero lya Lancaster University.

Nambozo yali mwana weyatandikira okwegwanyiza okuwandiika ebitontome. Kitaawe yali musajja muyiiya nnyo, engeri gyeyali omukungu eyali atambuddeko engeedo ezaali ziwerako.Yavunula okulambula kwe okw'ensi ez'enjawulo nga amaka, ekintu ekyamusikiriza. Esomero gyeyagenda nga nalyo lyamukwatira ngako mu kuwandiika kwe, wamu n'okubisoma mubiseera by'enkuungaana z'abayizi bane, mu kibiina, wamu ne mubisulo gyebaali basula. Yatera ng'okuyiiya ebitontome oba ebigambo byebaali boogera nga balinga abafubutuka nga bino yabikolera ng'ebisulo gyebaali basula, oba ebibiina, nga baabifuula nga nebabiteeka mu mpaka z'amazina.

## Okuwandiika
Nambozo ya'omu kubali oba memba wa FEMRITE, ng, akatabo akajudde ebitontome nga kaafulumizibwa erbacce-press mu mwaka gwa 2010, oluvannyuma lw'okubeera nga yali akutte kifo kyakubiri mu mpaka z'okuwandiika ebitontome eza buli mwaka.Omuzannyo gwe ogwalimu ebintu eby'enjawulo nga gwai guyitibwa *GA-ad*, gweyawandiika gwegwatibwamu omuwandiisi w'emizannyo okuva mu Uganda Judith Adong, eyalondebwa ng'omuzannyi w'omwezi mu kifo gyebagizannyira ekya New York National Black Theater mu mwezi ogw'omunaana, mu mwaka gwa 2013. Olugero lwe olwali luyitibwa "The Best Non-crier ku Purley Avenue", lwafulumizibwa ku mikutu gya postcolonial.org. Yeetaba mu Blogathon.

Engero zze ezaali ennyimpi, ebitontome, ne byeyawandiika ng'eby'enjawulo babifulumizaa mu butabo bw]'enajwulo okuli;  *Drumvoices Review*, Femrite, *Kwani?*, *Enkare Review*, *Copperfield Review*, *Postcolonial text*, *Feast, Famine ne Potluck* anthology, n'obutabo obulala mu  Uganda n'ensi yonna.  Ebisinga byazze awandiika kungendo zze z'abaddeko ng'olwomu Mexico, Lamu, Kenya, Misiri, ekuumiro ly'ebisolo erya Lake Mburo National Park, Kingfisher Resort, ekuumiro ly'ebisolo erya Queen Elizabeth National Park, n'ebifo ebirala, bifulumiziddwa mu  *UGPulse, n'emu mpapula z'amawulire eza* *[[:en:New_Vision|New Vision]]*. Mu mwaka gwa 2013, yatekebwa ku lukalala lw'ekirabo kya  Poetry Foundation Ghana prize, eky'abazinse banaabwe mukuwandiika ebitontome,  olwolugero lwe olumpi. Emirimu gye gitereddwa ku butuuti bw'emikutu gya  Pan-African poetry platform egya  Badilisha Poetry Radio. Mu mwaka gwa 2013, yalabikako ku mikutu gya leediyo ya BBC Radio 3 mu pulogulaamu ya *Cabaret of the Word*. Ekitontome kye ekya "Lake Nalubaale. Lake she Uganda" oba omwaka 2014 mu mizannyo egyetabibwamu amawanga agali mu lubu olumu ne Bungereza.

## Obutabo bwe obwafulumizibwa

### Ebitontonme ebiwerako

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### Ebitontome

* "I baptize you with my child's blood", "Sseebo gwe Wange", "Lamu", in  *A thousand voices rising: An anthology of contemporary African poetry*. BN Poetry Foundation. ISBN&nbsp;.
* "Microwave", "I will never be you", in  *Reflections: An Anthology of New Work by African women poets*. Lynne Rienner Publications. ISBN&nbsp;.
* Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!, in  *The Butterfly Dance: words and sounds of colour*. Femrite Publications. ISBN&nbsp;.
* "Unjumping", in  Femrite Publications. 2009. ISBN&nbsp;.
* "Bujumbura", *[[:en:Wasafiri|Wasafiri]]*, 2015
* "I Baptize You with my Child's Blood", shortlisted for Poetry Foundation Ghana 2013 prize and will be published in the anthology, 2014
* "Nyali Beach-Mombasa, Please Boss", in revistamododeusar.blogspot.com, 2014
* "Lake Nalubaale. Lake she Uganda", Uganda poem, commonwealth games 2014
* Ga-AD, hybrid poetry and theatre with Judith Adong, performed during the 45th reading, Black Series, New York City, 2013.
* "At the Graveyard, Nyali Beach-Mombasa", New Black Magazine, 2011
* "Al Qaeda", "Eloped", "High heels" and "Nyali Beach-Mombasa", published in *Loamshire Review*, a UK magazine, 2010
* "Dance Partner", "In the Restaurant" and "Crocodile Farm in Mombasa", published in *Drumvoices Revue, A confluence of Literary, Cultural and Vision Arts*, published by Southern Illinois University English Department, 2007
* "Al Qaeda", published in *Kwani?* 4, an East African literary journal, 2006

### Engero ennyimpi

* "Looking", in *Feast, Famine and Potluck*. Shortstory day Africa. ISBN&nbsp;.
* "Miss Nandutu", in *Words from a Granary*. Femrite Publications. ISBN&nbsp;.
* *Kampala Kuyiiya*, upcoming US academic journal, 2014
* "The best non-crier on 50 Purley Avenue" in *Postcolonial Journal*, Vol. 8, no. 1 (2013)
* "A Writer is Never a Prisoner", Femrite, 2004
* "My Winter Life", in *Copperfield Review*, a U.S, publication, 2003
* "Splash", in a Water Anthology launched in Netherlands 2003
* "Samuka Island", in the *Dawn Magazine*, 2003
* "Writing From The Heart", *New Writer magazine*, 2003
* "My Winter Life", published in Copperfield Review, an online UK magazine, 2003
* "Splash", published in *Water Stories*, by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2003