Essays

Knowledge

Writings by Kaddu Wasswa/Introduction by TWR

Sons of the Resistance

Now that the likes of Muhoozi Kainerugaba have come of age, can they find their range?

Shit (2023) The above is: Note: All answers are correct but choose the most correct one! Kibooko1: Luganda word for a whip. It can also be a stick one picks up to beat another person. Akello (2021) Of things I…

Poems

Hit and Run (2021) Do you not hear the angry car horns?The incessant sound slowly dragging sanity out of your mind?Busy working-class motorists, delayed by the unfortunate luck of the poor victim.The men at the boda stage scream like they’re…

Office of the Aunt

Among the Banyole people of eastern Uganda, feared by others for their uncanny ability to impose curses, aunts are decisive figures.

Pushing the Gate

Diary of a Gateman, Early 2023

Among the Poachers

Hunting isn't how the Banyaruguru people of western Uganda misbehave. It’s how they behave.

The Weganda Imperative

Uganda was producing intellectual journals by 1962. How could there be nothing to speak of in 2023?

Shadow Within

Weganda Expression shall be a regular feature of TWR. It is a documentary photograph in the possession of the journal’s editors that is judged to come closest to pinpointing one or another aspect of the Ugandan condition. The image is…