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Moses Isegawa


Born
in Kawempe, Uganda
August 10, 1963


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. His debut novel, Abyssinian Chronicles, was first published in Amsterdam in 1998, selling more than 100,000 copies and gaining him widespread national attention. It was also very well reviewed when published in English in the United Kingdom and United States, in 2001. Isegawa became a naturalized Dutch citizen, but he returned to live in Uganda in 2006.

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“Each jubilating hand hand the potential to vivisect, each hailing mouth had the power to condemn someone to death.”
― Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles
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“The skyline, gawking with architectural indigence, towered over the bowl like a row of stained, gap-toothed jawbones.”
― Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles: A Novel
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“To me, life was lived day by day, and the actions of yesterday might have nothing to do with what happened the following day. 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.”
― Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles
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