Tag: Banana Republic
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Kakwenza, will you survive this time round?
Dear Kakwenza, In 2020, your “The Greedy Barbarian” rubbed the handlers of our head of state the wrong way; as did Denis Cecil Hills’ “The White Pumpkin”, rub handlers of another of our heads of state the wrong way, for in it Hills likened the head of state to a “Village Tyrant.” Like Hills you […]
Norah Owaraga
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Banana republic politics & Kakwenza-type writers
Banana republic is a derogatory noun to describe “a small state that is politically unstable as a result of the domination of its economy by a single export controlled by foreign capital” (definitions from Oxford Languages). While, one has not yet read either of Kakwenza Rukirabashaija’s books for which he has been arrested twice, one […]
Norah Owaraga