From a Commonwealth short story prizewinner comes a masterful epic that examines Uganda’s history through generations of a cursed family This Ugandan debut novel begins in 2004 with the death of a man ...

Referees in football or umpires in basketball and cricket rarely make headlines unless they have made wrong calls. Actually, professional sport continues to minimise or unwind their errors by ...

Hours after graduating students, the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) has come out to clarify that Kayiwa International University (KINTU) does not have a valid license and is operating ...

The book Sapoba Legacy, co-authored by former ministers Jaberi Bidandi Ssali, Ali Kirunda Kivejinja and Kintu Musoke chronicles their personal journeys through life. In this last part of our ...

Ugandan author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi was meant to appear at Durban’s Time of the Writer festival this past week, before its physical iteration was cancelled. Literary festivals are a “nice to ...

This epic about Uganda’s history from a debut author who grew up in the country and now lives in Manchester starts with a man beaten to death outside Kampala in 2004. Then we wind back to the mid-18th ...

Kampala — You have come to the battlefield. You have come to fight against those, who wish you wrong, poverty, barrenness and sickness THE cave believed to have been Kintu and Nambi's home, is ...

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s ambitious new novel has notes of Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. By Randy Boyagoda Two books that immediately come to mind, in trying ...