Daily Monitor
Sunday April 25 2021
Over the years, many local anthologies have been published about different themes. Some have been strong critiques of the lifestyle, patriarchy, Uganda’s own democracy and relationships.
Unlike different poetry communities that always try to fix their anthologies in a box of a single theme, Ugandans seem to have escaped that, sometimes an author will put out a book that is indeed bankrupt of a theme but just a bunch of well written enjoyable poems thrown allover the place.
But that does not mean the pearl has not produced books that stayed true to a theme, we have actually had a good number of them, many of these had strong political undertones they remained faithful to.