WoChiPoDa 2022 is coming to Tanzania with exciting news!!! The founder and the committee of coordinators for WoChiPoDa in Tanzania are inviting children aged 7 – 12 to a poetry...

World Children’s Poetry Day (WoChiPoDa) 2022 is on Saturday, 1 October. Besides the nationwide poetry competition we ran in Tanzania, we invite all children to participate through poetry writing. As...

In December 2022 and January 2023, I had an opportunity to donate books to the Tanzania Library Service Board (TLSB) through the Kilimanjaro Regional Library. For writers in the diaspora,...

A week ago, I attended the sixtieth Bologna Children’s Books Fair. The fair was a four-day event from Monday, 6 to Thursday, 9 March 2023, and I participated on Wednesday...

On Wednesday, 23 March 2022, Parenting Consultant and Educator Justine Kakoko represented children’s author Gloria D. Gonsalves at the handover ceremony of copies of the donated book Jai Albino Cow...

On Saturday, 2 September 2023, I was invited to read two of my books as part of the 10th anniversary of Lange Nacht der Literatur (Long Night of Literature) in...

On Saturday, 7 October 2023, World Children’s Poetry Day (WoChiPoDa) marked the ninth year since its founding. Three events were held in Pwani, Dar es Salaam, and Kilimanjaro regions in...

The founder of World Children’s Poetry Day invites children of age ten and below to celebrate WoChiPoDa 2024 on Saturday, 5 October. Our tradition has been to share a theme...