Nairobi, Feb. 3 -- Goretti Kyomuhendo, Ugandan novelist and founding director of the African Writers Trust (AWT) has four novels to her name.

Her titles are Secrets No More (1999), which won the Uganda National Literary Award for Best Novel in the same year; The First Daughter (1996) her debut book, Waiting, published by The Feminist Press in New York in 2007, and translated into Spanish in 2022, and Whispers from Vera, published by Monitor Publications in 2002 and republished in August 2023 by AWT.

She laments the apparent low uptake of literary works in Uganda, blaming it on lack of skills, finances, and a distribution network, a poor reading culture, and the preference for the lucrative educational books by publishing firms.

"Publis...