At the start of July, a new journal called The Weganda Review launched in Kampala. It should have been a more remarked event than it was because it was the first launch in print of such a journal in East Africa in over 50 years.
One could sniff elements of Kwani? which was founded in Kenya in 2000 and had a fabulously famous run until its life ended with a whimper on Nairobi’s unforgiving alleys in 2015.
