The Weganda Review
@WegandaReview
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Founded in Uganda in 2023, The Weganda Review is a literary journal produced at the intersection of art & ideas, by and for those interested in African stories.
Kampala, Uganda
Joined July 2023
The 9th issue of @WegandaReview was published in print last week and online today. Get copies from the usual stockists or visit our office and gallery space in Bugolobi, Kampala, where you can also view paintings by Ocom Adonias, JB Muramuzi, Ronex, Ismael Kateregga & others.
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The cover of the 9th issue of @wegandareview. As ever, the issue includes a terrific mix of essays, fiction & poetry. Art portfolios belong to Lilian Nabulime & JB Muramuzi. Cover art is a haunting “minimum portrait” by Waleed Mohammed, a Sudanese artist now based in Kampala.
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RT @CLMPorg: The Weganda Review (@WegandaReview) is a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! Celebrate with us on June….
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In Saturday Monitor -- today's paper -- the art critic Musinguzi Bamuturaki writes about Kampala’s Weganda Gallery and the vision of its founder. “Rehearsing the Future,” the much-loved art exhibition that launched the Bugolobi-based gallery, is on till June 28.
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RT @CLMPorg: Congratulations to The Weganda Review (@WegandaReview), a finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! htt….
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RT @writingafrica_: CLMP Firecracker Awards 2025 finalists announced.#LiteraryAwards #Fiction #Nonfiction @WegandaReview ..
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The finalists for the CLMP Firecracker Awards 2025, including Edwidge Danticat, Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Yalie Saweda Kamara, JoAnne McFarland, and The Weganda Review were announced on Wednesday, May...
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@WegandaReview has been named a finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Award in the category of Magazines/Best Debut. We are grateful for the recognition of our work. @CLMPorg @ahpetite
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RT @CLMPorg: Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! .
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Weganda Gallery in Bugolobi, Kampala, was launched on Saturday with the unveiling of the Roduza Collection. The art exhibition, titled "Rehearsing the Future," is open until June 15. If you are unable to go, check it out online:
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Some installation views of "Rehearsing the Future," an art exhibition that opens on May 10 to launch Weganda Gallery in Bugolobi, Kampala. All those who love art (and beautiful things generally) should come by on Saturday or later during the month-long show.
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The art-loving Ugandan is warmly invited to "Rehearsing the Future," an art show to launch Weganda Gallery, in Bugolobi, Kampala, on May 10. The Roduza Collection website will be accessible on the eve of the launch.
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RT @ajar_nalwadda: I'm thrilled to see my pictures featured in Issue 8 of @WegandaReview .#LayersOfTruth #HajarahNalwadda .📸 .
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@Roduza Muhumuza, who founded the Weganda Foundation in 2023 with a mission to be a superior force for intellectual culture in the region, is the editor of @WegandaReview, a quarterly journal of letters published in Kampala.
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@Roduza Muhumuza aims to build an art collection substantial and influential enough to be the bedrock of the envisaged RODUZA, a permanent and non-profit museum of art that would be the first (or among the first) of its kind in the east African country.
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@Roduza The artworks are, nearly all of them, masterpieces, curated with care and the knowledge that they are priceless works of art that must be kept in Uganda.
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@Roduza is a journalist, essayist, short story writer, editor, educator, art critic and collector. His growing collection includes paintings and sculptural works by important local artists, men and women whose pictures would hang in the national gallery if Uganda had one.
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The Weganda Foundation is pleased to announce that it will launch the Weganda Gallery in Bugolobi, Kampala, on May 10, 2025, with a show exhibiting the Roduza Collection, a treasure trove of artworks amassed over the years by Rodney Muhumuza.
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The cover of the eighth issue of @WegandaReview, set to be published in mid-April. As always, the issue features a wonderful mix of essays, poetry, fiction, photography and art. Cover art is titled "Wondering," a batik piece by the Ugandan artist Nuwa Wamala Nnyanzi.
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RT @araoameny: Book mail from Kampala, Uganda. Honored to have two poems “Spoon” and “Kitenge Dreams” published in issue 7 of The @Weganda….
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The important (and beautiful) work of the Kenyan conceptual artist Peterson Kamwathi is reviewed in the current issue of @WegandaReview. Subscribe to read this essay -- and more:
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