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TAREMWAKelly Taremwa is the 3rd Prize Winner of the BN Poetry Award. She is 28 years of age and studied Mathematics and Statistics at Makerere University. She now works as a data analyst in NSSF Uganda.

Kelly is currently writing two story books. Nkwanzi The Raw Jewel is a story about a Rwandese girl who is raised by a Ugandan family after the genocide and rises through many challenges to be an engineer and  CEO in Uganda . The second, The Hidden Passion is a story of two lovers – a Kigezi Princess and a Ugandan Indian man – and the challenges they face as a result of their different cultures.

She writes regularly for The Observer.

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