Emotional Rollercoaster
By Paul Kisakye, Uganda: A loud knock on the door startled me. With frenzied keystrokes, I typed out a reply to my boyfriend, Joel. “Get back to you. Someone’s at the door.” I logged out of Facebook....
View ArticleGrandpa’s Story
By Muhwezi Simpson, Uganda: I have been thinking about the story about a girl, which my grandpa told me. Once upon a time in Grandpa’s village, he had said, there was a young and beautiful girl called...
View ArticleI Know Who I Am
By Gloria Kembabazi, Uganda: “A man without an identity does not belong”, were the words I had heard. They had been said by the grey haired man with a wrinkled face who lived a few meters from home. I...
View ArticleOf Love and Sisyphean Tasks
By Kirabo Nora, Uganda: “I’m good at forgetting,” I said, my voice shaking, pleading for him. I finally had him. My mind was racing, but sense and reason were losing out to my feelings for James. “This...
View ArticlePicture Frames
By Anthea Paelo The picture frame stood empty on the bedside. Rose had been staring at it for the last half hour, tears running down her face. She held a picture of her husband. He was a big man: tall,...
View ArticleThe New Politician
By Angella Sandra Namwase, Uganda: Your fingers are tucked into the mini pockets of your grey striped dress, your “Sunday best” as you call it, it is all you have to wear that you think suitable for a...
View ArticleStolen Innocence
By Nadweny Faith Naome, Uganda: I have had all but a century’s existence on Earth, lived a life buoyed by pride and characterised by surrender to fate’s whims. My envious surrogate of a mother who only...
View ArticleThe Shadow
By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: ‘How could you, Danny?’ I felt a lump rise to my throat, choking me. ‘Tell me, what has she got that I haven’t? Is she more of a woman? Prettier?’ He paced the floor of...
View ArticleThe Side Walk
By Nassanga Rashidah Sarah, Uganda: It had begun that morning when albino Kima got up from what had been her bed for a year. The sun was already peeping out from behind the clouds over the top of a...
View ArticleTogether
By Kathryn Kazibwe, Uganda: Mixed feelings whirl around within me as I step into my sister’s living room. I am swamped by nostalgia so potent I can almost hear the laughter. My sister is nestled in...
View ArticleTrue to Nothing
By Mildred Apenyo, Uganda: Half of Atim’s body is already out of the taxi when she snags her sandal on a piece of metal jutting out of its floor. She throws her hands out for balance, or luck, and...
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