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The award-winning satirical writer suffered extreme brutality for his work and now smuggles his latest banned book into Uganda to ensure it is read. Yet he dreams of one day being able to return

Rukirabashaija, also a journalist and lawyer, was recognised by English PEN in 2021 as a Writer of Courage.

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General Muhoozi Kainerugaba has been positioning himself as Uganda’s next leader. But his provocative tweets have unnerved Ugandans and put his father in a bind.

The attack on Salman Rushdie in New York state on August 12 highlights the plight of other writers threatened with death, who are forced to live every moment in a state of fear. FRANCE 24 takes a look…

Following a phenomenally successful 2021 for African writers, this year is also shaping up as another bumper harvest season. Gail Collins reviews works from seasoned pens as well as those fresh to publication

The difficult plight of writers living under authoritarian rule has been well-documented over decades, with some enduring impossibly harsh treatment for their truth-telling and resistance to repression. Frequent targets to be silenced through arrest, torture, prison and even death, writers, says Karin Deutsch Karlekar of Pen America, “are paying a very heavy price for free expression, which of course is not a crime.”

We spoke with the Ugandan author, activist, and lawyer about his tumultuous relationship with a governing body that has no interest in maintaining law and order.

A Ugandan court has allowed an arrest warrant to be issued for an international award-winning author who fled to Germany last month. Kakwenza Rukirabashaija ju