Essay on Ugandan Literary Activism
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“Tales from Here and There: On Ugandan Literary Culture,” which appeared in the Millions, was one of my all-time favorite essays to research and write: “All of this pioneering activity in Kampala might seem to have laid fertile ground for the emergence in the 1960s and 1970s of a powerful Ugandan writerly tradition. Certainly, the Ugandan landscape offers rich poetic inspiration and its history a surfeit of dramatic material. But politics can both feed literary output and obstruct it.”
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