Monica Arac de Nyeko

When Ugandan fiction writer and poet, Monica Arac de Nyeko, was recently declared the winner of the 2007 Caine Prize for African Writing, her first reaction was a feeling of triumph.

Her many years of trying to bring the Ugandan woes to the ‘conscience of the world’ had finally paid off.

“From the early 1970s, there were hardly any writings from Uganda because of wars and conflicts in our country,” Nyeko told the Sunday Standard in an interview.