Demere Kitunga, Readership for Learning and Development—Soma ‘kalamu ndogo’ creative writing workshop in session BackgroundThe Soma Book Café was invited by the Alliance Française to participate in a Book and Writing Festival from 21st and 24th November 2020, to launch its library in Arusha. We shared the Soma story and experience in promoting reading and […]
Author Archives: Demere Kitunga
Readership for Learning and Development, otherwise known as Soma, with support from Women Fund Tanzania (WFT) is proud to announce the Feminist Legislature Documentation and Archiving Research Project. This initiative is under the Multimedia Feminist Storytelling, Archiving and Documentation Project. The purpose of this particular endeavor is to uncover the hidden dynamics that have led to the […]
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Greetings everyone, Hope you are well in your various abodes within and outside Dar es Salaam. We met once again on Tuesday 12th at Soma Book Cafe for UWAKE. Present were Jasper, Clara, Calister, Caroline, Pauline and Lola. A cozy six the theme was ‘Circle’ and we heard four poems on the theme. Namely ‘Everlasting […]
Hello Ladies and Gents, Hope you’re well and kicking. Our last meet on the 29th of November was with Jasper, Chris, Roohi, Jolson, Pauline, Carol and Danstan. The theme explored was ‘Joy’ and we had four poems on theme by Carol. Jasper, Chris and Pauline. As well a couple more out of theme. We also […]
Please join us in celebrating the publication by Cambridge University Press of RACE, NATION, AND CITIZENSHIP IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA: THE CASE OF TANZANIA By Professor Ron Aminzade On TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH AT 6:30 PM At SOMA BOOK CAFÉ Home Q4 2018 53 Mlingotini Close, Regent Estate, Dar es Salaam A brief presentation by the author […]
Mabibi na Mabwana, Salaam! Greetings Ladies and Gents, Hope you’ve had a good two weeks. Karibuni tena kesho pale Soma Book cafe kwa usiku wa mashairi mwanana. Mada ni ‘Joy’-‘Furaha’. Apologies for not sending the moots of our last session earlier… On our last meet on the 15th of Oct, present were Demere, Jasper, Happy, […]
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At the UWAKE poetry meet up at Soma Book Cafe on 20th August, teased by ‘Call Me’ for a theme three poets responded with:’What you’re thinking’ by Lisa; ‘Nipigie Call me by Demere and ‘Common Thread’ by Caroline. We also heard Two poems with no titles dedicated to ‘Father and Mother’ respectively from Steven as […]
Heyloe Ladies and Gents, We met again last Tuesday at Soma Book Cafe, we had four new members (Ngasuma, Esther, Eliya and Lisa) and together (Carol, Pauline, Kido) seven of us made the session. The theme was ‘The hand that feeds you’ we heard three poems on theme and two others. Namely ‘Lost in the […]
Hello Ladies and Gents, We met again this Tuesday at Soma Book Cafe in Dar es Salaam. Six of us were present, namely Paulina, Caroline, Demere, Tendai, Jasper and Bandele. You’d think we’d leave early but we made till 10pm. The theme for this session was ‘Sexism’. We were pleased to also receive poems via […]
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