Rodney Muhumuza
@Roduza
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Uganda-based correspondent @AP. At work on 'Sister Caldonia,' a nonfiction novel. Founder & Editor @WegandaReview and curator of https://t.co/v30nY7f22e
Kampala
Joined February 2010
The Weganda Review is produced at the intersection of art and ideas, by and for those interested in African stories. It aspires to be the most instructive journal of its kind south of Khartoum, a world-class periodical right here in Kampala. This is the inaugural cover:
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RT @CraryAP: Rising school fees dismay many Africans. Some expect the Catholic Church to do more to help (From @roduza and @MutsakaFarai fo….
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RT @WegandaReview: Weganda Gallery in Bugolobi, Kampala, was launched on Saturday with the unveiling of the Roduza Collection. The art exhi….
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RT @WegandaReview: The Weganda Foundation is pleased to announce that it will launch the Weganda Gallery in Bugolobi, Kampala, on May 10, 2….
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RT @WegandaReview: The cover of the eighth issue of @WegandaReview, set to be published in mid-April. As always, the issue features a wonde….
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"The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes." -- Michel Houellebecq/Atomised.
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"Literature is pleasure and knowledge . It's useful only so long as one doesn't set out to make it useful." -- Javier Cercas.
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Risdel Kasasira, the Ugandan journalist who was killed in a senseless road accident yesterday, was extremely kind and humble, the only person I know who never kept a grudge. To convince him of the evil in others was very hard. It just made him laugh. He will be long remembered.
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RT @sindika_dokolo: Dear All,.As we mark the 4th anniversary of Sindika Dokolo’s passing, a memorial mass will be held to honour his memory….
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"[B]ooks, if they need to be written, will always find their moment." -- Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage.
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Shared once a year: the awesome Rundi-kazi Khadja Nin performing the timeless "Wale Watu" in Brussels in 1992. A great song of our time and a strong pillar of her legacy:
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On Oct. 15, 1924 - a century ago - the writer Andre Breton published the 'first' Manifesto of Surrealism. But his friend Yvan Goll had published his own manifesto days earlier, angering Breton. Their quarrel was over the right to be called the founder of an idea, a worthy fight.
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RT @BrianInganga: Burundi 🇧🇮 Avocado Country @BrianInganga 📸📸 with @Roduza ✍️ . How farmers in Burundi banded together to get fair pric….
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RT @WegandaReview: The cover of the 6th issue of @WegandaReview, set to be published on Oct. 10, with essays on protesters in Kenya, Anita….
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"I suppose it is submerged memories that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality." -- W.G. Sebald/The Rings of Saturn.
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"It takes just one awful second, I often think, and an entire epoch passes." -- W.G. Sebald/The Rings of Saturn.
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