Whenever I have spoken to some of my colleagues and friends about South Sudan- the most optimistic ones have tended to be
One of Uganda’s most famous literary minds is the poet Okot P’Bitek. A nationalist, pan-Africanist and avid lover of song, word and
Excuse the long sentences. One of the final acts of the organisation that sustained the era of Emperor Haile Selassie was its
All the dancing on the graves of dictators being so fashionable nowadays has conjured up a merry scene of a gathering in
“brilliant polemicist” in reference not to Christopher Hitchens, who is dead now, but to another man of letters, Uganda’s own, Professor Mahmood
Before he put his seal on the Bukenya papers, Rafael Baku (his name in Madi means literally “not a human being” or
Perhaps the great grand daughter of the fabled anti-colonialist and violently insurgent King Cwa Kabalega, would not have anticipated a year ago
It has been an incredibly busy few weeks. I have traded Kampala’s grey (it’s been a record 6 months of rain in