“Susan Kiguli, a Ugandan poet published here for the first time in Italy, has a peculiarity: she talks about horrors – such as the 1994 genocide in Rwanda or the violence in her country – with a severe gaze that at the same time rejects blind anger. A look and a word that remain tender and enveloping: «I observed you / with the curious interest of a confused child / while you embodied the survive and win philosophy / I am convinced that / if I learned these lessons and learned them well / a revolution / a revolution to support / the splendid in which I was born”.
Edition for the prize of the international civil poetry festival of Vercelli edited by Antonella Sinopoli with translation by Marta Zonca.