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February 5, 2022

PEN Prize Winner Kakwenza Rukirabashaija Brutalized Again in Uganda

He was first arrested in 2020, and last year shared his story in an interview with us. He was rearrested this new year.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. Photograph - English PEN

October 26, 2021

Novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija on Being Jailed and Tortured in Uganda

PEN’s 2021 International Writer of Courage shares his story with Open Country Mag.
Otosirieze
Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. Photo credit: English PEN.

February 4, 2021

Hafsa Zayyan’s We Are All Birds of Uganda Revisits Idi Amin’s Expulsion of Asians

The Nigerian Pakistani lawyer’s debut novel, written in six months, moves between ’70s Uganda and present-day London.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Hafsa Zayyan's We Are All Birds of Uganda by Stuart Simpson/Penguin.

February 5, 2022

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. Photograph - English PEN

PEN Prize Winner Kakwenza Rukirabashaija Brutalized Again in Uganda

He was first arrested in 2020, and last year shared his story in an interview with us. He was rearrested this new year.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

October 26, 2021

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. Photo credit: English PEN.

Novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija on Being Jailed and Tortured in Uganda

PEN’s 2021 International Writer of Courage shares his story with Open Country Mag.
Otosirieze

February 4, 2021

Hafsa Zayyan's We Are All Birds of Uganda by Stuart Simpson/Penguin.

Hafsa Zayyan’s We Are All Birds of Uganda Revisits Idi Amin’s Expulsion of Asians

The Nigerian Pakistani lawyer’s debut novel, written in six months, moves between ’70s Uganda and present-day London.
Ernest Ogunyemi

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