About the author

Mar'Kata Rhaimes

<p>Mar'Kata Rhaimes is a Computer Science granduate from Makerere University (Kampala - Uganda). He co-authored with 7 other writers in a poetry-and prose anthology titled "The River Banks", published under a writers' initiative called PENit, in August 2016. He's since featured on several performance-poetry platforms in and around Kampala. So far he's been performing spoken word poetry under different poetry groups like PENit, Ladu Poetry, WordSmiths UG, The Brush, and currently Engelo420. Lately he started attempting to add motivational speaking, song writing&#160;and music recording to his literary adventures.</p><p>When his glare is not stuck onto a laptop or smartphone screen, he's either hanging out with old friends and/or acquaintances, laughing profusely at another silly joke crafted or narrated by one or both of his 2 young brothers, melting off a long week's heavy heart with a Friday-evening 10KM run, fantasizing about the future or his secret crush, or just quietly figuring out what next to do with his time.</p>