#poetmeup by The Swala Tribe
Hello! My name is Annick Gisele Umuliza, I'm a poetry fanatic. This December I’ll be the host for #PoetMeUp. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. This is the 20th Episode. This episode we bring you Lise Nova Berwadushime.
Hello! My name is Sandra Nadege, and welcome to the 19th episode of #PoetMeUp. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today we have Natacha MUZIRAMAKENGA.
Hello again! I'm Ganza Moise, standing in for Sandra Nagede as the host for this week’s 18th episode of #PoetMeUp. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today we have Brian Bazimya.
Hello, and welcome to the 17th episode of #PoetMeUp podcast. I'm Sandra Nadege, a poet, author, and editor, and I’m the guest host for the month of November. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today we have Mbabazi Diane.
Hello dear listeners, welcome to episode 16 of #PoetMeUp. I’m Ganza Moise, your host for the month of October. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today we have Sandrine Mignonne Iradukunda. Sandrine Mignonne Iradukunda is a communications practitioner, screenwriter, voice-over artist, narrator, editor and events coordinator. She is an Afro-feminist who values the safety of women justice through education and correct information about their rights and ways they can be well and more informed about their bodies. She uses her social media platforms to inform and engage about mental health, women’s rights, and advocate for the less fortunate. Sandrine holds a diploma in information systems and another one in Multimedia with the focus on storytelling, screenwriting, copywriting and video production. She'll be reading a piece titled "How to be a Culturally Appropriate Woman"
Hello and welcome to the 15th episode of #PoetMeUp. I’m Ganza Moise, your host for the month of October. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today we have Mxnzi le Poete.
Hello and welcome to the 14th episode of #PoetMeUp. I’m Ganza Moise, poet, writer and filmmaker, and I'm your host for the month of October. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today we have Kenny Nyamulinda.
Hello, dear listeners of #poetMeUp, which is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today is episode 13, you're with me Claudine Karangwa Ingabire, and today we have a special poet. Her name is Mukazi Délice. She's a platform officer under corporate banking in Access Bank Rwanda. But her soul belongs to words. To writing and reading. She enjoys travelling, hiking, and nature in general. Délice Mukazi loves taking care of things and people she loves, and spending quality time with them. Poetry is a way of expressing her feelings. It is a language of her soul. Today she's going to read for us a poem titled You're Not My Friend.
Hello, dear listeners of #PoetMeUp Podcast! This is episode 12, and my name is Claudine Karangwa Ingabire. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today we have a poet whose name is Joselyne Nzisabira. She uses the pen name "TheMedPoetess”. She is a medical student, author, and spoken word poet based in Rwanda. She is the author of “Urukundo Nanze”, an IAfrica co-author, and has published some of her works in the IAfrica 2020 Vaw Magazine entitled “The Voice of African Women". Joselyne won the 2020 Gender Equity Issues during Pandemics writing competition prepared by the Center for Gender Equity and therefore holds the 2020 UGHE-VC Equity award. She is also the founder of Write and Inspires Series, which is an organization aiming at impacting writing through experience and opportunity sharing. Joselyne is currently part of the Writers Space Africa, Rwanda chapter.
Hello, beautiful listeners of #PoetMeUp Podcast! My name is Claudine Karangwa Ingabire, I'm today's host of #PoetMeUp, which is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today we have a poet whose name, her name is Sharon Urusaro Kalimba. She is a Rwandese poet, award-winning filmmaker, producer and director. She focuses on educational storytelling through art, film and short stories. She is an enthusiast and member of the poetry and spoken word community in Rwanda and she's also passionate about stylistic and inclusive creative work.
Hello beautiful people! My name is Claudine Karangwa Ingabire, I'm the host of today's 10th episode of #PoetMeUp, which is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today we have a poet whose name is Doris Mugisha. He's also known as Doris the Poet as the penname, he's a spoken word artist from Kigali, Rwanda. He started this career in the last 2 years, he was driven by the passion that can’t let him sleep without scripting. When he's writing, he makes sure to capture all the things related to changing society positively via his poetry. He now has five poems on his YouTube channel, Doris the Poet, namely Dear God, Nkiri Muto, AMARIRA Y'ABIRABURA, Mi Vida, and Umwana wo mu Nkambi. On today's episode, he's going to read for us two pieces titled “Dear God" and "Amarira y'Abirabura“.
Hello beautiful people! This is #PoetMeUp, which is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. My name is Claudine Karangwa Ingabire, I'm the host for this month of September. This is the ninth episode, we're going to feature a poet whose name is Umurungi Gisèle. She's a student pursuing Biomedical Laboratory Sciences at Ines Ruhengeri. She writes poetry and short stories drawing inspiration from life and everything that occurs during a lifetime. She's also a former journalist at Izuba Radio/Tv and nikaflix.com
Hellooo! Welcome once again! My name is Tom Patrick Nzabonimpa, and I am the guest host of #PoetMeUp for the month of August. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today, we're going to host Sandra Nadege, a writer/poet based in Kigali. She is the author of three books, including ‘Light in the Dark, a Memoir', and two poetry collections including ‘First Creation’ and ‘Sense and Sensation’. She is also the editor of 5 Rwandan published books, including 2 novels, 2 poetry collections, and an inspirational book. Apart from that, her artistic ventures include poetry performances, theatre performances, and singing. Her hobbies range from creating handcrafts to hiking to travelling to environment and wildlife conservation. For more of her works, you can visit her website www.sandra-nadege.com to read short stories, poems, articles, and travelogues. She's going to read for us a poem called 'Real Blackness.' Enjoy it!
Hellooo! My name is Tom Patrick Nzabonimpa, and I am the guest host for #PoetMeUp for the month of August. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today, we're going to host Nina Salim, a Rwandan young artist, screenwriter, poet, theater writer, and actress. She has been writing short stories, poems, theater scripts, and quotes for 17 years and has also attended literature classes in Burundi and learned some technics for writing novels and stage play poetry in Rwanda.
Hellooo! My name is Tom Patrick Nzabonimpa, and I'm a poet, an editor, and a journalist, and I'm your guest host for #PoetMeUp for the month of August. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today, we're going to host Ganza Moise, a published picturebook author, poet, and independent filmmaker based in Kigali, Rwanda. He is also the co-founder of Kiruri MFN, an independent production company based in Kigali, Rwanda. His films have been screened in various film festivals worldwide. He recently premiered his latest film Muzunga in the 2022 edition of the Oberhausen international short film festival. He's going to read for us four poems titled "Enter Pain", "Mask", "Guilty", and "I Feel". Enjoy the poems!
Hellooo! My name is Tom Patrick Nzabonimpa, and I'm your guest host for #PoetMeUp for the month of August. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today we're going to host Divine Ukwishatse. She started writing a while back; 3 years ago. She is currently working on improving her skills on flash fiction literature. She enjoys solving Math equations, video-making, talking and comforting people. She dreams of pursuing Aviation in the university. She loves family, friends, and unbelievable laughs. So we're going to listen to her piece named "Color Me". Enjoy this piece!
Hello beautiful people, my name is Claudine Karangwa Ingabire. I’m the host of today’s fourth episode of #PoetMeUp, which is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and well-renowned Rwandan poets. Today we have a poet who’s called Dusenge Jean de La Croix. He is a 23 years old Rwandan who fell in love with poetry and other forms of art. He's a poet and signs his poems as JDC_Kimirantare. He does free verse poetry and other poetry styles and he's also a spoken word poet. He has a poem to recite for us which is titled Tomorrow Without Us.
Hello, Welcome back to #PoetMeUp. This is episode 3, and I'm Delice Mukazi. #PoetMeUp is a weekly series of poetry readings featuring new and renowned Rwandan poets. Today we're with Ingabire Gisele. Gisele is a young passionate female writer. She's currently pursuing her bachelor's degree in law at Ines Ruhengeri. Apart from writing, she enjoys reading books and watching movies. She's friendly and loves being around people. In this episode, Gisele reads for us her piece Secret Tears.
TRANSCRIPT
In this first episode of our weekly reading series #PoetMeUp, Sandra Nadege hosts Tom Patrick as he reads "Death...Love". Enjoy!
