Moses Isegawa

Moses Isegawa also known as Sey Wava (born 10 August 1963), is a Ugandan author. He has written novels set against the political turmoil of Uganda, which he left in 1990 for the Netherlands. Quotes Abyssinian Chronicles (1998) Each jubilating hand had the potential to vivisect, each hailing mouth had the power to condemn someone to death. The skyline, gawking with architectural indigence, towered over the bowl like a row of stained, gap-toothed jawbones. Life was a journey of discovery, and character was a variable that kept veering left and right in search of the perfect way for a particular day. The lukewarm fingers of nostalgia stroked the hearts of the old, garnishing the smells and the sounds and the fires with old truths turned to dull uncertainties in today’s environment. Every migrant soul was now a compact little ghost captured in words, invoked from the lacuna by the oracle of Grandma and Grandpa and made to inject doses of old life into our present truncated existence. The narrator describing his grandfather's homestead All these white people believed they were scoring a point with the monkey thing, but they were not: they were just scratching their own assholes. Uganda was in a state of siege, writhing like a dying moth on the floor. The bugles of defeat were poised, waiting to blow the walls down. The inside of the country was like a grenade whose pin had already been drawn. p. 305 The razor crackled and filled with stubble as I dragged it across valleys and ridges. Birds chirped fussily in the tallest gray-skinned mtuba trees. They jumped up and down on one branch. Mugezi's grandfather asking for a shave External links Abyssinian Chronicles Category:Novelists from Uganda Category:1963 births Category:Living people