Ungandan poet and novelist, Doreen Baingana, writes about the “duty of African writers…to give alternatives to the media’s negative narrative on the continent” in today’s Guardian.
Baingana’s latest book, Tropical Fish : Stories Out of Entebbe, published by the University of Massachusetts Press, “is a collection of linked short stories that explore the coming of age of three African sisters. Introspective and personal, the stories reveal the unexpected ambiguities of the young women's lives. The setting is the lush beauty of Uganda and the background is the aftermath of Idi Amin's dictatorship. But even in such trying circumstances, the stories show that people everywhere face the same basic human struggle to understand themselves, their world, and their place in it.” – The University of Massachusetts Press website