Uganda, April 28 -- Dear Arthur, I write to you from Kampala, Uganda, where you fled in the mid-80s to escape persecution as a soldier of a defeated government. Sadly, I have known you more when you're no more. How I wish I met you when you visited only once in 2016.

As a boxing fan, I would have asked you about your amateur career that is only defined by one fight. Your days as a UNLA private and boxer-like that day when you, Sarah Nabulya, your first wife, and many of your soldier colleagues hid in a church before the NRA soldiers dragged you out in a scene that smelt death. That you survived was nothing short of a miracle.

I would love have asked about your childhood dreams when you were at Kampala Modern SS; about your early life in...