Author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija is in the limelight again, this time for winning the 2023 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent.
Rukirabashaija, a fierce critic of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, has shown defiance despite being imprisoned and tortured three times since 2020 for his books, including The Greedy Barbarian, a satirical political fiction novel about corruption and dictatorship in a fictitious African country, and Banana Republic: Where Writing is Treasonous, an account of the torture he was subjected to while in detention in 2020 for the publication of his first book.
