We Refuse To Be Victims - Mugumya, Sam
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WE REFUSE TO BE VICTIMS is a collection of prison poems, written by Sam Mugumya, a Ugandan political activist who has narrowly survived the abyss of the crunching injustice he has opposed for about a quarter of a century. The poet paints a lucid and lurid picture with not just words, but with blood, wrath and excruciating suffering. The 80 poems published in this collection for the first time were written by him in a tiny prison cell in the Democratic Republic of Congo, far from his home and family. When Mugumya fled his home country via the Democratic Republic of Congo, he ended up being…mehr

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WE REFUSE TO BE VICTIMS is a collection of prison poems, written by Sam Mugumya, a Ugandan political activist who has narrowly survived the abyss of the crunching injustice he has opposed for about a quarter of a century. The poet paints a lucid and lurid picture with not just words, but with blood, wrath and excruciating suffering. The 80 poems published in this collection for the first time were written by him in a tiny prison cell in the Democratic Republic of Congo, far from his home and family. When Mugumya fled his home country via the Democratic Republic of Congo, he ended up being arrested there after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni informed his Congolese counterpart, President Joseph Kabila, that Sam Mugumya was a terrorist who should be arrested. Paradoxically, Mugumya was more secure in his cell than he would have been in Uganda, where the dissident activist would most likely have been eliminated. As the poet mirrors his life on paper secretly in his prison cell, he almost gives up, as one day in his sixth year of his incarceration the prison wardens confiscate his manuscripts, crippling his spirit. But with the encouragement from his inmates, he starts afresh, thus the rebirth of this collection, which entirely describes dictatorial regimes and ruthlessness in the most vivid manner, and the harsh realities of any political prisoner, especially in jail out of his home country.
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Sam Mugumya is a political activist who has stood up against the dictatorship of Uganda's long-term president Yoweri Museveni. Mugumya has been detained in Ugandan jails countless times since the early 2000s and charged with various cases, including unlawful assembly, robbery, and treason, among many other cases. In 2014, he attempted to flee to exile through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where he was arrested by the Joseph Kabila regime and detained in the infamous Prison Militaire de Ndolo for eight years. It is during this stint in prison that most of the poems contained in this volume were written, as the only way of escaping from his miserable self.