Uganda, April 20 -- When Makerere University opted to celebrate Prof Arthur Gakwandi and Prof Austin Bukenya on April 5, the performance of some of their literary works on stage was always a given. The literary luminaries turned 80 this year and their body of work seems just as limitless.

To celebrate their arrival on the eighth floor, presentations were culled out from Kosiya Kifefe, Prof Gakwandi's novel; A Hole in the Sky, Prof Bukenya's play; and Naturally, Prof Bukenya's poem.

Prof Gakwandi's novel is a chequered account of growing up in post-independence Africa, as profiled in the life and times of Kosiya Kifefe. Through Kosiya, the author traverses the years of the African youth with its dreams, uncertainties and escapades, while...