.The Associated Press Rodney Muhumuza - Facing pressure from rights groups, World Bank suspends funding for Tanzania tourism project:

'Oakland Institute for years led calls for the Bank to stop funding the project known by the acronym REGROW, documenting serious rights abuses suffered by #Indigenous …

'In my experience, you can live with not knowing how a story begins, but not knowing how it ends? Now that's torture.' -- Yu Hua, via The Paris Review

In Uganda, bamboo has government's backing as a crop with real growth potential apnews.com/article/uganda…

“The pleasure of hearing ill of the dead is not a negligible one, but it pales before the pleasure of hearing ill of the living.” — Janet Malcolm/ The Silent Woman

In Uganda, refugees’ need for wood ravaged the forest. Now, they work to restore it apnews.com/article/uganda…

This issue features a wonderful mix of prose, poetry, and art, with essays on Ugandan tribalism, the nettlesome legacy of Uganda’s ruling party, Sol Plaatje’s South Africa, Julius Nyerere’s faithless followers, and the homelessness of Ugandan modernist art:

The third issue of The Weganda Review was published this weekend. We encourage you to get yourself a copy:

Things found at an open-air marketplace in downtown Kampala. You wouldn't find any of these titles in a large bookstore here.

A boozy banana drink in Uganda is under threat as authorities move to restrict home brewers apnews.com/article/uganda…

This astonishing issue of TWR will be published in Jan. In any event, The Weganda Review No. 3 isn't one to be missed. Cover art is by Ronex Ahimbisibwe. Charles Onyango-Obbo, Barbara Barungi, B.P. Tabaire, Kwezi Tabaro, Robert Kabushenga, Don Wanyama, Odoki Jimmy Acellam, Dr Gerald Bareebe, bookishray, Jackee Batanda

'My mother's wishes are simple but they are not negotiable. She experiences them as necessities. Right now she must have a cup of coffee.' -- Vivian Gornick/Fierce Attachments

Congratulations Rodney Muhumuza The Weganda Review on the second edition of your journal! You are stepping in to fill the gap in our cultural space. If you are looking for some wind down reading, this journal is a #1 recommendation. I've a short story: Waiting in the Frangipani Tree in it.

Henry Kyemba was a great Ugandan and a generous man. I'll never forget the ride in his vintage Volvo one afternoon in Jinja. The author of a book about Idi Amin's Uganda, he had a rich personal archive, into which I was once admitted. He should be remembered for many years.

This is very important….you don’t want to miss this course….worth every cent in 200k!

At a market for used books in Kampala it's now possible to find such. James Boswell, by the way, was a self-satisfied man of letters in 18th century London, a notable diarist and biographer 'who wanted to imprint his personality on the life he planned to write.'

The second issue of The Weganda Review was published today. It's as hefty and beautiful as the first issue, if not better. Special thanks to Barbara Barungi, Dr Anna Adima & Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/UGCS for financial support in the production of this issue:

.The Associated Press Rodney Muhumuza - 'Rights watchdog accuses the World Bank of complicity in rights abuses around Tanzanian national park.”

Must read coverage of new Oakland Institute report – Unaccountable & Complicit – that exposes role of the Bank in financing evictions & human rights abuses to…

Congrats to the The Weganda Review team on the release of their stunning inaugural issue! The issue features a diverse collection of genres including art, fiction, diary entries, poetry, and more. Find a link to the issue and its table of contents below.

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Sneak peek: The second issue of The Weganda Review will be published later this week. The Weganda Review is the hottest intellectual property in Uganda today. Read it and then spread the word:

“Power, of course, is vampiric. We enjoy it only because someone else does not. Power is what philosophers would call a positional good, meaning that its value is determined by how much of it one has in comparison to other people.” — Eula Biss/On Immunity