Rodney Muhumuza

"Literature is pleasure and knowledge ... It's useful only so long as one doesn't set out to make it useful." -- Javier Cercas

Risdel Kasasira, the Ugandan journalist who was killed in a senseless road accident yesterday, was extremely kind and humble, the only person I know who never kept a grudge. To convince him of the evil in others was very hard. It just made him laugh. He will be long remembered. https://t.co/cm3BJyNSYj

RT @sindika_dokolo: Dear All, As we mark the 4th anniversary of Sindika Dokolo’s passing, a memorial mass will be held to honour his memory…

"[B]ooks, if they need to be written, will always find their moment." -- Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage

Shared once a year: the awesome Rundi-kazi Khadja Nin performing the timeless "Wale Watu" in Brussels in 1992. A great song of our time and a strong pillar of her legacy: https://t.co/aexuWIAfQl

On Oct. 15, 1924 - a century ago - the writer Andre Breton published the 'first' Manifesto of Surrealism. But his friend Yvan Goll had published his own manifesto days earlier, angering Breton. Their quarrel was over the right to be called the founder of an idea, a worthy fight.

RT @BrianInganga: Burundi 🇧🇮 Avocado Country ⁦@BrianInganga⁩ 📸📸 with ⁦@Roduza⁩ ✍️ How farmers in Burundi banded together to get fair pric…

RT @WegandaReview: The cover of the 6th issue of @WegandaReview, set to be published on Oct. 10, with essays on protesters in Kenya, Anita…

"I suppose it is submerged memories that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality." -- W.G. Sebald/The Rings of Saturn

RT @CraryAP: The church was named Good News. Hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors (a powerful story from ⁦@Rod…

RT @historyinmemes: https://t.co/Lml2HvqwUw

"It takes just one awful second, I often think, and an entire epoch passes." -- W.G. Sebald/The Rings of Saturn

RT @AP: In Uganda's chaotic capital, boda-boda motorcycle taxis are a source of life and death https://t.co/O5ZtwgadUs

RT @CraryAP: In a remote Ugandan region, a sacred circumcision ritual faces a contentious test of purity (from @AP) https://t.co/qUxeBiGrgr

Today my brother Ivan defended his doctorate at the University of Antwerp. After six years of hard work and many years of suffering, he becomes the first PhD in our family. He is almost certainly going places as a political ecologist with a distinct perspective. https://t.co/tMVovCZ4Kt

RT @WegandaReview: The 5th issue of @WegandaReview: essays, fiction, diary, poetry & art. This issue features art portfolios by Leonard Kat…

"Any life is laughable if one knows it well enough. It is something serious and terrible if one knows it even better." -- Elias Canetti (in the book-length essay 'Kafka's Other Trial,' about Franz Kafka's suffering as a man, a lover and, a writer)