CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FESTIVAL & 5TH BOOK BAZAAR

SUMMARY BRIEF Readership for Learning and Development—Soma in collaboration with The Sweden Embassy and Mkuki na Nyota Publishers will be organizing a Children’s Literature Festival from 16th to 19th November 2021 in multiple locations. Soma Book Café will host the festival on November 17. Among others, the event will engage children in storytelling and innovation […]

Uani Kunani?

Uani Is a backyard , often with an enclosure traditionally designated as women’s space of exclusion and safety from men’s spying eyes , It is often associated with homes. There are many variants of exclusively women’s spaces equivalent to uani in many homes settling in Tanzania and the rest of Africa, some not enlcosed.soma’s uani […]

From the backyard: Proposition

ua n (nyua), U-N-, mzizi mauaNyuma ya Nyumba, Uzio Context: Relating to Swahili Homes. Traditionally a backyard, often with an enclosure, and designated as women’s space (of ‘seclusion’ and ‘safety’ from men’s straying eyes who occupy the front patio and open public spaces). Notes on the proposition. To frame this exhibition conceptually, I start these […]

Kutoka Uani: Pendekezo

ua n (nyua), U-N-, mzizi mauaNyuma ya Nyumba, Uzio Muktadha: Inahusu nyumbani Uswahilini. Kimila, uani kawaida kuna uzio, na pametengwa kama sehemu maalum ya wanawake (ya ‘faragha’ na ‘salama’ mbali na ‘macho (ku mchuzi)’ ya wanaume ambao wao hukaa barazani na maeneo ya wazi mitaani. Maelezo kuhusu mapendekezo: Ili kuunda dhana kuhusu maonyesho haya, ninaanza […]

Kutoka Uani/ From the Backyard Matamko ya Wasanii

Asteria Malinzi Baridi la Ufukweni, 2021Picha, video na sauti.(Video Poem was produced in collaboration with Ngollo Mlengeya) Umekwishaonywa. Mchecheto usiomithilika unaikodolea milele zote zinavyotiririka mithili ya vijito. Umekwishaonywa; kwa wepesi uliojaa hadaa mawimbi yamesheheni historia, yanazisomba ndani ya wimbi liendalo masafa ya mbali ya upotevu na kuzisambaratisha ndani ya sauti ya sahau. Umekwishaonywa; mawanda yasiyo […]

Meet the Hadithi Zetu Artists

Readership for Learning and Development–Soma with the support from Women Fund Tanzania Trust are proud to profile young promising female storytellers who will research and produce original works on feminist issues in Tanzania using any creative form (genre) and media tool of their choice. #HadithiZetuChallenge