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404:(25 April 1938 β 4 March 2023) was a Ugandan writer, political figure, and sportsman. In the 1960s, he pioneered post-colonial English literature in East Africa. He lived in exile in the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 1980s before returning to Uganda in 1986. He subsequently became a senior advisor to President
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Museveni's ascension to the presidency. In the same year, he was appointed to the Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights (commonly known as the Ugandan Truth Commission), with a mandate to investigate human rights violations under Museveni's predecessors
542:, Nagenda was "one of the pioneers of writing in East Africa" and wrote "at the transitional moment in East African literature in English", when local writers raised in the colonial period sought to apply British forms of prose and poetry to the East African landscape.
432:. He was the oldest of six surviving children born to William Kyanjo Nagenda and Sala Maliamu Bakaluba. His parents were Christian missionaries, and the family returned to Uganda when he was a small child. His father's family belongs to the Mmamba clan of the
626:, portraying him as a front for deposed president Milton Obote. Nagenda had a complicated working relationship with Museveni, making public criticisms of him on several occasions. In 2010, he condemned the government's seizure of
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In 1989, Nagenda was appointed by
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as "a very extreme woman". However, Nagenda and
Museveni later reconciled, and in 2020 he stated that Museveni had "done a fantastic job" as president.
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Quinn, Joanna R. (2004). "Constraints: The Un-Doing of the
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Nagenda died at
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Nagenda lived in exile in the United
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After the end of his playing career, Nagenda served as chairman of the
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In the 1980s, Nagenda became a member of the external wing of the
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became president. In the same year, he published his first novel,
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Nagenda was among the first students in the literature program at
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