Prime Bush
Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park is not just a wide expanse of bush. It has a political story to tell.
Essays
One Poem
Blood in the Water (2018) (With a line from Dave Matthews Band’s song Don’t Drink the Water, 1998) As the others,the Africans, said prayers,hosted, protected, protested As seven-year-oldsschemed: surelyif we all march from Dar es Salaamto Robben Island surely they…
Guilt
How does a conscientious writer overcome the burden of responsibility for past misdeeds?
Mercy
Joshua Muwanguzi
Ubumwe
Rwanda is more united than ever, but unqualified reconciliation remains elusive.
Something
“If Jacob Zuma’s enduring strength as a South African leader testifies to something, anything, what is it?”
A Recipe for Resistance
“Cooking this, eating this, you are declaring that your foods and way of life are worthy.”
Tunji
My girlfriend cannot eat cereal because of her ex Tunji. We have been talking about Tunji more than I want to. He keeps coming up in conversations, rearing his head, making things difficult. She says Tunji scarred her but, from…
One Poem
Hypothesizing an Invading Battalionafter the 1989 Mukura massacre (2023) It can be said that in sleek transformation welet the wild dog of the semi-arid land knitinto our bodies: we came through the fieldswhere squat orange trees danced in the haze,…
Waiting
Diary of Irene Birungi, Waitress, March - May 2024