Select Forthcoming Articles and Book Chapters
- “Maya Angelou’s Worldmaking in Egypt and Ghana (1961-1965)”
- “Between African and Black: Literary Activism Beyond Transition Magazine’s Middle Passage”
- “The Happening of Manchester: The Intimacies of Class, Gender, Nationalism, Race, and Indigeneity”
- “An Afro-Nationalist History of Ghanaian Women Writing: From the Colonial Beyond the Neoliberal”
- “Writing Songs for Nawal El-Saadawi: Education as a Practice of Community Building”
Select Recent Publications (2016 -)
- “Jimmy Spire Ssentongo’s Malaki Shoes”, Afterword to the second edition of Quarantined: My Ordeal in Uganda’s Covid-19 Isolation Centers by Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, Makerere University Press, Kampala (2024).
- With Ainomugisha M. “#WeAreRemovingADictator: The 2021 Uganda Election Crisis and the Possibilities and Limits of Youth, Diaspora and Digital Activism”, in Handbook on Youth Activism, edited by Jerusha Conner, (2024) Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Book Review: Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East African Literature by Peter Leman, Journal of the African Literature Association, (2023) Vol 17, No. 1, pp. 229 – 231.
- “What is Literary Activism? (Or Who keeps the housekeepers’ house?)”, Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, (2021) Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2, pp. 10 – 22.
- With Madhu Krishnan “Creative Writing as Literary Activism: Decolonial Perspectives on the Writing Workshop”, Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, (2020) Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2, pp. 97 – 115.
- Book Review Forum: Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa by Carli Coetzee, “The Bloods of Literary Activists”, Journal of the African Literature Association, (2020) Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 146 – 148.
- With E.M Mirembe “Introduction”, in No Roses from my Mouth: Poems from Prison, Ubuntu Reading Group, Kampala, (2020) pp. vii – xiii.
- “Beyond the Afropolitan Postnation: The Contemporaneity of Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu”, Research in African Literatures, (2018) Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 103 – 116.
- With Madhu Krishnan (2018) “Introduction”, in Odokonyero: A Writivism Anthology of Short Fiction by Emerging Ugandan Writers, Black Letter Media, Yeoville, p. ix.
- “Righting land wrongs with the pen: The leadership of Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ken Saro Wiwa“, The Journal of Leadership and Developing Societies, (2016) Vol 1, No. 1, pp. 29 – 57.
Select Recent Popular Writing (2017 -)
- Faith in native consciousness, Africa is a Country, February 22, 2023.
- “What is the role of radical intellectuals in Uganda?” Review of African Political Economy Online blog, February 13, 2023.
- With Kuukuwa Manful, “A poem about the president gets you jailed in Uganda,” Africa is a Country, June 16, 2019.
- “Why, exactly, are Ugandans so proud of Daniel Kaluuya’s Oscar nomination?” Quartz, February 6, 2018.
- “What happened to Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Makerere University?” This is Africa, March 17, 2017.
- “The Strong Breed: The Rise and Fall of Africa’s great literary leaders,” African Arguments, February 13, 2017.
