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In Fashion: Uganda's Doreen Baingana (Interview)

by Jani on August 20th, 2009

Twice nominated for the Caine Prize in African Writing, Ugandan author Doreen Baingana shares her insights in this Q&A with fashion site BellaNaija.com:

Three adjectives that best describe you:

What I think I am or want to be or what I really am? What I am reaching towards: Creative, a seeker, a mother, a sister. Those aren’t adjectives. Three aren’t enough.

When and why did you decide to become a writer?

It didn’t happen all at once. When I first left home – for Italy, 1989 – I wrote lots of letters home and loved doing it. Started writing poetry a couple of years later, then fiction.

Why do you write?

To explore issues. Because I enjoy it. To portray what hasn’t been portrayed much: all the details, possibilities, imaginings of an “African” life.

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• Tropical Fish : Tales from Entebbe by Doreen Baingana
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  EAN: 9780767925105
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