The show celebrated the art of poetry in the best ways possible and of course, cemented Mitchy’s place on the scene – a spoken word artist worth the title
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.
Horror inside a kidnap drone
February 10, 2021 A numberless drone van and the author (L)
Drones, not aerial ones, but Super Custom-type road delivery vans, have become a darling of security service-men kidnapping young men across the country nowadays.
They bring a chill of fear at every sighting. The unlucky ones who have been arrested and transported to torture chambers in these drones have scary stories to tell about their road experience.
Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, a novelist and human rights activist, has had several run-ins with state agents, rattled by his razor-sharp literary works that are highly critical of the ruling hierarchy. He has been arrested several times, transported in drone vans and brutalized in various detention facilities. Below is one of many testimonies of his torment in and outside of a drone.