Prarie Schooner’s Fusion :: Uganda

Fusion is Prarie Schooner’s online series, which Editor Kwame Dawes says, “is an opportunity to create dialog across geographical spaces and cultures through the sharing of art and writing. It represents an effort to create bridges between the many silos that separate us, and to do so by asking writers to think about the very things that connect us and distinguish us in different parts of the world.” Issue #11 is a collaboration with Ugandan poetry and art on the theme “Shoes.”

In her essay, “Ngato! Ngato! Shoes!” Ugandan Poet Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva [pictured] writes, “It’s often the most silent shoes that are the strongest. It’s the shoes that allow thieves to stalk upon unsuspecting people and the shoes that enable a cheetah to pounce on its prey. The silent shoes do not desire unnecessary attention to detract them from their mission.”

Read the full issue here.