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