Nous venons de signer cette lettre ouverte pour demander aux chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement de faire de l’école gratuite pour tous les enfants un droit humain universel.
Beatrice is the chair of PEN International Women Writers Committee in Uganda. The General Secretary Treasurer of Uganda Women’s Writers Association (FEMRITE), its member and a freelance writer with Monitor Newspaper, UGPulse and the Global Press Institute.
She was shortlisted for 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing and finalist for the PEN/Studzinski Literary Award 2009, and a fellow for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in 2011 and 2009.
“My short story was shortlisted for the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing and was first published in the anthology, Butterfly Dreams and Other New Short Stories from Uganda, published by CCC Press, Nottingham, UK“.
Beatrice Lamwaka
Middle English parlai speech, probably from Middle French parlee, from Medieval Latin parabolare, from Late Latin parabola speech, parable
First Known Use: 1580*
“Parley” is a discussion or conference, especially one between enemies over terms of a truce or points in dispute or other matters; mutual discourse.
The root of the word parley is parler, which is the French verb “to speak”.
Beginning in the High Middle Ages with the expansion of monarchs, a parley, or “talk”, was a meeting held between kings and their Chief Retainers. Parleys were part of the many changes in Europe, especially regarding governments. These meetings can be attributed to the formation of parliaments, which are derived from a similar root, parliamentum, simply meaning “talking”.**
Act V Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Drum. Enter BRUTUS, CASSIUS, and their Army; LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, and others
BRUTUS: They stand, and would have parley.
Nous venons de signer cette lettre ouverte pour demander aux chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement de faire de l’école gratuite pour tous les enfants un droit humain universel.
Thank you for the reference to Uganda.