Essays

We Are the Elders Now

Elderhood is a graduation into deeper purpose for the adult who loses both parents.

Mass Wasting

Negligence by Kampala authorities was not the determining cause of the landslide at Kiteezi.

Muntu

Mugisha Muntu’s doomed presidential campaign is an urgent cautionary tale for us all.

Artewikidoc, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

A Mouthful for Absent Nights (2025) Nights sit on my chest till/ I regurgitate the hunger I consumed/ Like a vulture tearing at the carcasses/ Of an elephant and her calf I become Water – flowing Into the emptiness…

Pedro Ribeiro Simões from Lisboa, Portugal, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

One Poem

Ballet Proscovia

Theo van Doesburg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Two Poems

Abubakar Ibrahim

Domestic worker Medina Azikuru photographed at the home where she works. © Rodney Muhumuza for TWR

Homemaking

Diary of Medina Azikuru, house girl, June to July 2025

A pilgrim holds onto the statue of a saint while immersed in deep prayer at Namugongo, an area just outside Kampala where pilgrims converge around the Basilica of Uganda Martyrs. The annual pilgrimage has long been a mark of faith for tens of thousands of people who trek there. © Badru Katumba for TWR

Faith

A flooded plain somewhere in West Africa (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Afram Plains

On the morning the water swallowed the plains, Boateng dreamt he was walking across the branches of baobab trees under the moonlight. He could see the ground far below as he passed above clay and thatch and little zinc rooftops,…

Junctions

Illustrated stories of survival by Congolese refugees in Uganda.