The popular Conversations with Writers blog looks at the practical side of writing with Ugandan author Ulysses Chuka Kibuuka:
When did you start writing?
I started writing when I was a kid in p4 (Uganda) but first got published 1991 even though I had written For the Fairest in 1980.
Uganda had a real hell of a time and education and all that goes with it went to the dogs — hence the deficit in publishers or enthusiasts. The difference is not much today — not in terms of security but in terms of respect for literature, writing, etc.
With the coming of the current administration into state power — I was part of the guerrilla detail that captured the city Kampala and still serve in the armed forces aged 56! — it was relatively easy to get a publisher. Fountain Publishers are new having began in 1990. I am their first (fiction) published writer.
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