Young Ugandan Wins International Writing Competition
A young Ugandan school student, Lydia Adero, has won the top international prize in this year’s Commonwealth Essay Competition.
The seventeen year old, who attends Iganga Secondary School, was awarded the first prize in the prestigious writing contest for a captivating essay in which she explores life in a ‘traditional polygamous family’.
Lydia Adero and other Ugandan winners of the Competition will be presented with their prizes by the Hon. G.N. Bitamazire, Minister of Education & Sports, Republic of Uganda , at a Commonwealth ceremony in Kampala on 19 November.
Scooping the top prize from amongst 6,300 final entries submitted by 1,350 schools across the Commonwealth, Lydia ’s triumph reflects the exceptionally high standard of Ugandan entries for the 2007 Competition.
Lydia’s delightful portrait of a type of family which she believes to be “too rare and truly African”, contains a depth of perception and subtlety which impressed the Commonwealth Essay Competition’s judges.
The competition’s Chief Examiner, Charles Kemp , said: “ Lydia ’s writing demonstrates a remarkable talent for observation and a wonderful storyteller’s gift for sharing information with her audience. As a writer, she has a lightness and sureness of touch which enables the reader to step over the cultural boundaries which frame all our lives. In so doing, we are able to glimpse without judgement or criticism another family’s very different realities and values.”
Ugandan participation in the Essay Competition reached a record-breaking high this year ahead of the Kampala Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Some 30,000 students took part in the national competition and an impressive 215 final entries were received by the Royal Commonwealth Society in London .
The awards ceremony will take place on Monday 19 November 2007 from 6.30pm, at the Africana Hotel, Kampala , Uganda , as part of the Commonwealth Foundation’s “Friends of the Commonwealth” reception.
A writing workshop with the Ugandan winners will take place at the People’s Space, Africana Hotel, on Monday 19 November, from 1pm-3pm.
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