About Me

Writer, Editor, Translator, Performer, Author of A Nation in Labour. Also, 2018 joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa; shortlistee, Commonwealth Short Story Prize + two-time nominee for Short Story Day Africa Prize. Currently in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University.

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Published work (selected)

JOURNALISM

Child Labour should be a concern for all —http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Child-labour-should-be-a-concern-for-all/-/689844/1734666/-/djgal4/-/index.html

Let the north hold the hoe to break the soil and not break away from Uganda– http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Let-the-north-hold-the-hoe-to-break-the-soil-and-not-from-Uganda/-/689364/1705324/-/xgep2fz/-/index.html

If Uganda ‘divorced’ colonialism, why are we on our knees over aid cuts?– http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/If-Uganda–divorced–colonialism–why-are-we-on/-/689364/1629784/-/113668rz/-/index.htm

Govt must live up to its mandate and tackle the nodding disease —http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/-/689364/1314454/-/129lu16z/-/index.html

 

 

[The Articles]

Acholi traditional dance attire faces extinction

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/710904/-/vvc430/-/index.html

Life out of IDP camps not any better

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/710906/-/vvc432/-/index.html

Hepatitis E deaths, infections increase

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/690186/-/vh6if9/-/index.html

Three main reasons Candida won’t go away

http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Health—Living/-/689846/823434/-/quotlx/-/index.html

MUSEVENI 24 YEARS LATER: All I knew were gunshots and nights in the cold

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/-/688342/851106/-/ff1oer/-/index.html

Landslide victims find home away from home

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/-/688342/1038452/-/u91qxx/-/index.html

Gulu today and 100 years ago

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/-/688342/1061058/-/uaqfa1/-/index.html

The untold cruelty of life as a fisherman

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/-/688342/1114692/-/uqsoat/-/index.html

Hundreds need counselling, but can we meet the needs?

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/-/688342/1198712/-/uvssbe/-/index.html

Sex trade: At 17 years, I have slept with more than 400 men

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1329478/-/b0pavfz/-/index.html

Queries linger as Health ministry establishes treatment centres

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1331438/-/b09bn1z/-/index.html

Patients to continue nodding as funds delay

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1331790/-/b0995kz/-/index.html

Assessing the nodding disease dilemma

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1335816/-/b06gacz/-/index.html

Each child’s nodding head eats at Ocitti’s pride

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/-/688342/1357980/-/vwhgmi/-/index.html

I watched three of my children nod to death – mother

http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1377046/-/capdga/-/index.html

Mwanga: Sweet sinner or savage saint?

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/ugandaat50/-/1370466/1383906/-/uj03v5z/-/index.html

What it means to suffer from Nodding Disease

http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/-/691232/1383952/-/dfh45/-/index.html

He dropped technology for poetry

http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/He-dropped-technology-for-poetry/-/691232/1403780/-/q2pbfx/-/index.html

Despair as mental symptoms take toll on nodding children

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Despair-as-mental-symptoms-take-toll-on-nodding-children/-/688334/1410888/-/t2s84mz/-/index.html

Livelihoods at risk as nodding disease takes toll on adults

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1412120/-/ahe1r8z/-/index.html

Woman fights double war of nodding and HIV/Aids

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Woman-fights-double-war-of-nodding-and-HIV-Aids/-/688334/1412886/-/by5gui/-/index.html

The Nakulabye Massacre – 1964

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/ugandaat50/The-Nakulabye-Massacre—1964/-/1370466/1477828/-/ho74li/-/index.html

Daudi Ochieng motion and the Congo gold ‘loot’

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/ugandaat50/Daudi-Ochieng-motion-and-the-Congo-gold–loot-/-/1370466/1479352/-/lfavnt/-/index.html

Buganda expels Uganda as Obote abolishes the 1962 Constitution

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/ugandaat50/Buganda-expels-Uganda-as-Obote-abolishes-the-1962-Constitution/-/1370466/1480464/-/quq060z/-/index.html

1966 Crisis was a bubble bound to burst

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/ugandaat50/1966-Crisis-was-a-bubble-bound-to-burst/-/1370466/1481642/-/3hxabqz/-/index.html

The abolition of kingdoms in Uganda

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/The-abolition-of-kingdoms-in-Uganda/-/688334/1483110/-/yuwdtwz/-/index.html

Obote’s attempt at nationalism and the rise of Idi Amin

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Obote-s-attempt–at-nationalism-and–the-rise-of-Idi-Amin-/-/688334/1485210/-/h576tb/-/index.html

Amin shows early political cunning

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/ugandaat50/Amin-shows-early-political-cunning/-/1370466/1501382/-/kdx2dbz/-/index.html

How many people did Amin really kill?

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/ugandaat50/How-many-people-did-Amin-really-kill-/-/1370466/1519550/-/3ok7pg/-/index.html

Israeli invasion of Entebbe and Amin’s consolidation of power

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/ugandaat50/Israeli-invasion-of-Entebbe-and-Amin-s-consolidation-of-power/-/1370466/1525304/-/s3pdayz/-/index.html

When the doctor gives you the wrong medicine

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/When-the-doctor-gives-you-the—-wrong-medicine/-/688334/1695086/-/umn9ulz/-/index.html

Choosing singlehood

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/Choosing-singlehood/-/688342/1727454/-/6ayv00/-/index.html