Juliane Okot Bitek Awarded the 2017 Glenna Luschei Poetry Prize for “100 Days,” Her “Metonymic” Memorial of the Rwandan Genocide

Kenyan-born Ugandan poet Juliane Okot Bitek has been awarded the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, for her collection 100 Days. Published in 2016 by the University of Alberta Press, 100 Days is a chronicle of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, the figure standing for the number of days it lasted. One of the three poetry prizes administered […]