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.

Abyssinian Chronicles (1998)

 * Each jubilating hand hand 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