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This astonishing issue of TWR will be published in Jan. In any event, The Weganda Review No. 3 isn't one to be missed. Cover art is by Ronex Ahimbisibwe. Charles Onyango-Obbo, Barbara Barungi, B.P. Tabaire, Kwezi Tabaro, Cde. Robert Kabushenga, Don Wanyama, Odoki Jimmy Acellam, Dr Gerald Bareebe, bookishray, Jackee Batanda

A boozy banana drink in Uganda is under threat as authorities move to restrict home brewers apnews.com/article/uganda…

Things found at an open-air marketplace in downtown Kampala. You wouldn't find any of these titles in a large bookstore here.

The third issue of The Weganda Review was published this weekend. We encourage you to get yourself a copy:

This issue features a wonderful mix of prose, poetry, and art, with essays on Ugandan tribalism, the nettlesome legacy of Uganda’s ruling party, Sol Plaatje’s South Africa, Julius Nyerere’s faithless followers, and the homelessness of Ugandan modernist art:

In Uganda, refugees’ need for wood ravaged the forest. Now, they work to restore it apnews.com/article/uganda…

“The pleasure of hearing ill of the dead is not a negligible one, but it pales before the pleasure of hearing ill of the living.” — Janet Malcolm/ The Silent Woman

In Uganda, bamboo has government's backing as a crop with real growth potential apnews.com/article/uganda…

"In my experience, you can live with not knowing how a story begins, but not knowing how it ends? Now that's torture." -- Yu Hua, via The Paris Review

.The Associated Press Rodney Muhumuza - Facing pressure from rights groups, World Bank suspends funding for Tanzania tourism project: "Oakland Institute for years led calls for the Bank to stop funding the project known by the acronym REGROW, documenting serious rights abuses suffered by #Indigenous

"Any life is laughable if one knows it well enough. It is something serious and terrible if one knows it even better." -- Elias Canetti (in the book-length essay 'Kafka's Other Trial,' about Franz Kafka's suffering as a man, a lover and, a writer)

The 5th issue of The Weganda Review: essays, fiction, diary, poetry & art. This issue features art portfolios by Leonard Kateete (a living master & the most important Ugandan artist you've never heard of) & Bruno Sserunkuuma, a leading ceramist whose exquisite work graces the cover.

Today my brother Ivan defended his doctorate at the University of Antwerp. After six years of hard work and many years of suffering, he becomes the first PhD in our family. He is almost certainly going places as a political ecologist with a distinct perspective.

Yesterday Ivan Ashaba defended his PhD, which provides an extremely rich understanding of the past and present of militarised conservation in Uganda. Trailblazing research, that will be read widely. Dr. Ivan Ashaba, it has been a tremendous honour to join the ride (1/3)

In a remote Ugandan region, a sacred circumcision ritual faces a contentious test of purity (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/e2a29c…

In Uganda's chaotic capital, boda-boda motorcycle taxis are a source of life and death apnews.com/article/uganda…

"It takes just one awful second, I often think, and an entire epoch passes." -- W.G. Sebald/The Rings of Saturn

The church was named Good News. Hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors (a powerful story from ⁦Rodney Muhumuza⁩, with support from The Associated Press’s Religion Team) apnews.com/article/b2e998…

"I suppose it is submerged memories that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality." -- W.G. Sebald/The Rings of Saturn