Uganda, Feb. 27 -- DEBUNK, a quarterly magazine of "non-fiction and reportage" launched in Nairobi. In Ugandan terms, consider it a sibling of the wonderful Weganda Review.

There is a meaty offering in it by Ugandan writer and journalist AK Kaiza (aka David Kaiza). If he had been born in 16th-century Europe, Kaiza would have been an enlightened explorer. He's never learned how to take life less seriously. Restless, questioning, and always poking in dark corners, Kaiza delivers a mind-bending, provocative, and unsettling essay titled "The Violent Birth of Kampala". It is a snippet from seven years, 2014 to 2021, spent cycling or walking every street, back street, slum, and crossing filthy drains in and around Kampala. The little novel det...