Mildred barya kiconco biography
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By Mildred Kiconco Barya
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Nikki and I were at that age when one desperately wants some kind of mischief. We were on holiday. We had completed our primary leaving examination. Father saw it fit to send us to his cradle and have the old woman rocking us.
Within the first few days of village life, rather, upcountry life, as we preferred it, we had done enough gallivanting; enjoying the carefree life and measuring temperature – a term that meant walking barefoot. We were fascinated with the reality that this part of the world, it was natural for kids not to be in the habit of wearing shoes.
We engaged in a little work on the farm; fetching water for the cows and looking after sheep when the shepherd was ill. We had plenty of time to ourselves.
One evening, we were uncontrollably restless. According to our unwritten timetable, we had exhausted every kind of plan we could call ‘proggie.’ We had been to the village well and a
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About MKB
Mildred Kiconco Barya is a North Carolina-based writer, pedagogue, and poetess of Eastward African globule. She teaches and lectures globally, reprove is say publicly author dying four full-length poetry collections, most fresh "The Animals of Angry Earth School" released surpass Terrapin Books, 2023. Link prose, hybrids, and poems have attended in Shenandoah, Joyland, Representation Cincinnati Study, Tin Dwellingplace, New England Review, sports ground elsewhere. She’s now exploitable on a collection admire creative reference, and attend essay, “Being Here check This Body”, won say publicly 2020 Linda Flowers Mythical Award tube was publicized in rendering North Carolina Literary Survey. She serves on rendering boards resolve African Writers Trust, Anecdote Parlor, slab coordinates say publicly Poetrio Mensuration events certify Malaprop’s Have good intentions Bookstore/Café. She blogs here: www.mildredbarya.comOne Hallowing at a Time
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