The Book of Foul Things
A psychiatrist recalls the tormented origins of her medical practice
Essays
A State of Grace
A personal history of news
Pilgrims
The primary motivation for many pilgrims to the Catholic shrine in Namugongo is to prolong life. How many more years do they want?
When Only Images Remain
The work of the Sudanese painter Waleed Mohammed forces us to interrogate the very picture of Sudan.
One Poem
Philip Matogo
One Poem
Necropolia II (2024) A country unveils her face and every green thing stops representing vigor. Halts its signification.You deliberate between Stheno and Saturn for how fast she eats up her young. The violence frothing in her mouth so dark it…
One Poem
The Decline of the English Language (2024) Decades after your English disintegrates to ashes I mould my sobs into melting matchsticks Ancestors borrowed adverbs for you from banks Purchased pronouns to pin on Polling Day Shoved trolleys…
Two Poems
Vermiculture (2025) you’re walking down a street and your phone picks up the wi-fi signal of an old haunt, a coffee shop you once visited with the person you were with then, the person you were, you…
Driving
Diary of Sam Tusemerirwe, a driver in Kampala, January – March 2025