Uganda, March 16 -- A Ugandan author has received an honourable mention at this year's Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize.

Mildred Kiconco Barya's Ritual of Home has been hailed as a meditative prose piece about nature, and the fragile ecosystem we are entrusted to steward for our future by an esteemed panel.

DeLana RA Dameron, the final judge, also hailed Ritual of Home for providing a sense of "how we find home wherever we go."

Barya is a North Carolina-based writer and a Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet.

She teaches and lectures globally, and is the author of four full-length poetry collections. Her most recent body of work-The Animals of My Earth School-was published by Terrapin Books, 2023.

The Ugandan's prose, hybr...