Mao’s Dialectic
Norbert Mao is a frantic democrat at fifty-six, a political freak. But is he betting on something?
Essays
Similar Fruit
A road trip to a hill range in northern Uganda provokes meditation on yesterday’s ugliness as well as today’s beauty.
Two Poems
The Weight of a Rocking Chair (2023) The rocking chair is wobblynever by the carpenter’s bladebut by its occupant’s agitation.Thoughts never aligned but hidden.Feelings ever boiling but tightly capped.Energy often drained and not boosted.Countless words unspoken. So, his rocking chair…
Self-Entitlement
Corruption has become so rampant in Uganda today that we ought to find another word for what is happening.
Full Circle
As some of us grow older, it’s to the friendships made as primary schoolers that we must return, seeking the warmth others can’t give.
Housekeeping
Diary of a Juice Bartender, Oct. - Dec. 2023
The First Takeaway
Just as kids of a certain generation were urged to delay their first sex act, can today’s children delay their first taste of junk food?
Shades of Water
Weganda Expression is a regular feature of TWR. It is a photograph in the possession of the editor that is judged to come closest to pinpointing one or another aspect of the Ugandan condition.
Waiting in the Frangipani Tree
My two sisters and I sat perched on branches in the frangipani tree and watched the neighbors. Their compound bustled with activity. Through the chain-link fence that separated the two homes we observed, entranced, as the neighbors reached for the…
Digging Deep
To be easily accessible to the other it helps, first and foremost, to be easily accessible to oneself