For years, she wrote a column called The Secret Diary of Christina, about a young, single woman living in Kampala, which ran in Uganda's The New Vision. Then she started writing a series of children's stories, The Adventures of Tema, which were published in the Sunday Vision for several years, and proved to be very popular. Now all that writing has come to fruition. Last week, Susan Mugizi Kajura was announced the winner of the $3,000 (Sh 240,000) Most Promising New Children's Writer Award at the Macmillan Children's Literature Awards, 2002.