Freddy Macha short stories

Freddy Macha comes from Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. He has travelled, lived and worked in Brazil, Paraguay, Germany, Scandinavia, Canada, USA, most parts of Eastern Africa and Europe. He currently lives in London.

Originally trained as a joumalist, he worked for eight years as a reporter and columnist with the two Tanzanian Swahili and English newspapers. His Cultural Images weekly column in the Sunday News had a big impact on the cultural youth consciousness in Tanzania, creating controversy and discussion.

Some of his poems won a BBC Poetry Prize and published in the Heinemann anthology SUMMER FIRES, London 1983, he was also a runner-up in the Commonwealth short story competition in 1996. He also self-published a collection of poems PAPIERKRIEG, (German/English) with Multi-printer Cologne, Germany 1986. He has done freelance work for the BBC Swahili Service in Brazil as well as workshops, performances and festivals, radio and TV all over Europe and South America.