Eighty thousand illegal copies of books, worth about Shs1.8b or $750,000 U.S., have been seized in Uganda. This is an effort to take unlicensed copies from bookshops and printers, part… Read more »

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize was awarded last week to Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a writer from Uganda currently living and teaching at Lancaster University in the UK. Established in 2012 alongside… Read more »

Political protests in Uganda are taking a turn toward the literary, and meeting with censorship from the government, Rodney Muhumuza reports for the Associated Press. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has… Read more »