Life as it comes.
On nights when sleep evades me, I lie awake dreaming of all the things I could become. Some nights I'm a model for Coca-Cola. There's a billboard with a picture of me drinking straight from the bottle. The billboards hung in cities and village town centers. The billboard picture is taken at a beach. It's... Continue Reading →
Towards the end of 2018, I wrote a post quite similar to what's required of today's prompt. It was part of the Blog of the Year challenge which was probably one of the first blogging challenges I ever did. It's always exciting reading posts on this prompt because you get lots of new people to... Continue Reading →
As an African content creator, I'm writing this for myself as much as for other content creators. There are a couple of things I'd like us to avoid; the commonest of them being the need to over explain things we think readers won't understand instead of telling the story and trusting the reader to make... Continue Reading →
Over the weekend, I spent time catching up with different bloggers participating in the Afrobloggers' Winter blogging challenge. It was a beautiful adventure. An adventure which made today's challenge easier to write on. Here is a list of my top 5 bloggers in my country Uganda. (Do click on their highlighted names to check out... Continue Reading →
Being on social media is like being in a house full of talking people. The rooms may be painted in different colours but in each of them, everyone holds a microphone whose size is dependent on one's follower count. Some people are looking for love, others are trying to market products they've never tried, some... Continue Reading →
When I'm typing a text, I'll occasionally stop and read out a sentence to my siblings and ask if it makes sense. One of them always says, "but you're the teacher of English, you're supposed to know these things." I laugh. I laugh because they don't know why I ask. I ask because I know... Continue Reading →
Lisa Romans Awori was born on 3rd September, 1996. That Tuesday night, it rained heavily. Her father got soaked trying to get to the hospital. She is the second born child of two teachers. She has one brother and two sisters, all of whom she loves dearly. Lisa didn't attend nursery school. She joined primary... Continue Reading →
Food and I have a healthy relationship; in the sense that it is a relationship that keeps me healthy. I admit I love food. I wake up thinking about it. I smile each time I get a whiff of its scent (what normal people call aroma.) Then there are the occasional butterflies when I walk... Continue Reading →
When I first hit the publish button, I had no idea where that road would lead, but I was an enthusiastic traveller carrying a huge bag of faith. That was in the October of 2015. I was a second year student who ocassionally wrote. A friend, Andy, liked my writing and suggested I start a... Continue Reading →
Hello reader, Happy new month! 💛 I'm excited about this month because a couple of people I love were born in it but also because I get to exercise my writing muscle thanks to this winter blogging challenge courtesy of Afrobloggers. Let's take it from the top. My name is Elizabeth Awori. I go by... Continue Reading →
