Jackie

Spoken word

The Poetry

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The signature piece

The Silenced Villain

Her most-watched performance, delivered at the Africa's Campus Battle finals in Nairobi against competitors drawn from universities across the continent. She was the only one representing Tanzania.

The set was built around Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger. The brief every finalist was given, and the reason the competition exists. It is the clearest demonstration of what she does: an argument you would normally read in a report, delivered so that a room actually feels it.

It won Season 6, a USD 2,000 prize, a fully paid trip to London, and the Anthony Athaide Trophy for MUHAS.

Faith

Written for worship

A child of God is the first line of her bio, and these are the pieces where that shows up on the page rather than around it.

Kiswahili

Kwa lugha ya nyumbani

She performs in both languages by choice, not as a translation exercise. These are the pieces written in Kiswahili first.

More

The rest of the catalogue

On social media

Short-form work

She uses social media to start conversations worth having, through poetry and storytelling. These are the recent pieces.

Mrembo Asilia

Nafasi

The Screen

Money

Bodaboda

Watch these on TikTok and Instagram.

Commission a poem

A wedding, a launch, a memorial, a campaign. She writes to the brief and performs it herself, in English, Kiswahili, or both.