Danson Kahyana

• Makerere University

My article contributes to the current debates on travel, with special emphasis on Africans’ travels to China. I theorize travel writing from a South-South perspective, thereby bypassing the European colonial era, which is usually considered the watershed of travel writing. Besides, I interrogate the uncritical praise of China by the Ugandan travell...

In Uganda’s Katikiro in England (a record of the journey that Sir Apolo Kagwa and his personal secretary, Ham Mukasa, made to England to attend the coronation of Edward VII) there are several instances where Mukasa and Kagwa seem to occupy a marginal position as colonized subjects. Yet there are also moments when Kagwa and Mukasa are not marginal a...

The essay explores the centrality of place and space in the Ugandan Michael David Kyazze's Zimbabwe-set Rustlings of the Mulberry Tree (2014), a novel which details the fight against pederasty of some Pentecostal Church pastors. One of the issues examined is why this novel, which is a fictionalized account of real-life events that happened in Ugand...

This article explores the portrayal of one aspect of the theme of dictatorship and misrule in Susan Nalugwa Kiguli’s first collection of poems, The African Saga, that is, the cruel leadership that is blind to the humanity of the ruled. I argue that Kiguli’s writing of post-independence leadership in Uganda is unique in its use of vivid images that...

This essay attempts an experimental reading of a folktale in order to demonstrate how Orature can be deployed to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS . The essay also highlights the contribution other literary genres like songs and fiction have made to the same cause, placing them alongside oral forms of many kinds within the larger social frame of the com...

The paper examines the crucial question of postcolonial identity in East African nation states, with particular reference to the Asian experience in East Africa. It attempts an examination of the conflict between citizenship and descent, par- ticularly as regards the identity of East African Asians. It argues that descent and race are considered mo...