Nyana Kakoma

Nyana Kakoma
Born	Nyana Kakoma Kampala, Uganda
Nationality	Ugandan
Other names	Hellen Nyana
Alma mater	Makerere University
Occupation(s)	Author, editor, blogger, publisher
Website	somanystories.ug

Nyana Kakoma is a Ugandan writer,[1] editor, blogger,[2] and publisher[3] from Kampala. She created the online platform Sooo Many Stories that promotes Ugandan literature.[4] She formerly wrote under her maiden name Hellen Nyana.[5][6] She is one of the facilitators of Writivism in Kampala 2015.[7] She took part in "Bremen & Kampala – Spaces of Transcultural Writing", a collaboration between writers from Uganda and Bremen.[8] She is a member of Femrite. In February 2015, she was awarded an editorial fellowship at Modjaji Books by the African Writers Trust and Commonwealth Writers. A number of her articles have appeared in newspapers.[9][10][11] She attended the Caine Prize workshop 2013,[12] and her story "Chief Mourner" was published in the Caine Prize anthology A Memory This Size and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013.[13]

Early life and education

Nyana attended Gayaza High School for secondary education. She graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Literature and Communication Skills.^[citation needed]

Published works

Short stories

• "Chief Mourner" in A Memory This Size and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013. Jakana media. 2013. ISBN 9781431408382.[14]
• "Just because you didn't win"
• "Fringes" in Storymoja blog, 2014
• "Waiting" in The Suubi Collection (2013)

References

1. "MEET THE AUTHOR: Telling 'sooo' many stories from Uganda". The Citizen. 30 September 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
2. "Interview with Ugandan blogger Nyana Kakoma". Commonwealth Writers. 12 June 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
3. "You do not have to have big offices in a big building to have a publishing house.' An Interview with Nyana Kakoma", shortstorydayafrica.org, 14 September 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
4. "Interview: Nyana Kakoma on Sooo Many Stories, women writers and Modjaji Books". Mon pi Mon. 11 February 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
5. "Granta Magazine's Best of Young British Novelists – the Nairobi Launch with Kwani Trust". Retrieved 12 February 2015.
6. "authors". Retrieved 12 February 2015.
7. "2015 Facilitators". Archived from the original on February 21, 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
8. "Upcoming Ugandan and German writers sharing writing experiences online". Retrieved 12 February 2015.
9. "Stop letting them get away with it". Daily Monitor. 1 November 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
10. "Why youths can choose next president and why they probably will not". 13 February 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
11. "Writing My Truth: Hellen Nyana". African Writers Trust. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
12. "Uganda 2013". The Caine Prize for African Writing. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
13. "Caine prize anthology launched". Daily Monitor. 27 April 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
14. A memory this size and other stories : the Caine Prize for African writing 2013. Oxford, England. 2013. ISBN 978-1-78026-120-1. OCLC 900886531.

External links

• "Makumbi lives, breathes writing"