The African Saga

{{short description|1998 book by Susan Nalugwa Kiguli}}

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| language = English

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| publisher =Femrite Publications

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The African Saga is a collection of poems by Ugandan poet Susan Nalugwa Kiguli.{{cite web|author=Alex Smith|title=Susan Kiguli’s formative reading experiences|url=http://littlehands.bookslive.co.za/blog/2009/03/17/susan-kiguli%E2%80%99s-formative-reading-experiences/|work=Books Live|date=17 March 2009|accessdate=12 January 2015}}{{cite web|title=Susan Nalugwa Kiguli|url=http://www.theistanbulreview.com/susan-nalugwa-kiguli/|accessdate=12 January 2015}} Published in 1998, it won the National Book Trust of Uganda Poetry Award (1999),[http://www.femriteug.org/?view=7 "FEMRITE Achievements and Milestones."] FEMRITE – Uganda Women Writers' Association. Retrieved 22 August 2011. It is a collection of 95 poems in four sections: “Poems of Protest”, “Relational Poems”, “Poems of Nature” and “Existential Poems”.{{cite web|title=Poetry night II Africa|url=http://archiv2.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/archiv/festivals2008/06_literaturfestival08/ilb_08_programm/ilb_08_gesamt_programm/ilb_08_ProgrammlisteDetailSeite_9940.php|publisher=Berliner Festspiele|accessdate=12 January 2015}}

Awards and recognition

  • Won the National Book Trust of Uganda Poetry Award, 1999.{{cite web|title=Dr. Kiguli to recite poems at Literature festival in Berlin|url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/25/649574|work=New Vision|accessdate=12 January 2015}}

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