Abyssinian Chronicles

Isegawa's Uganda runs from a Catholic childhood in the Buganda countryside south of the capital, through the boarding seminary, and into Kampala itself: the seven hills, the markets and the slums, and the fear of the Amin and Obote years. The map holds to the real Ugandan geography the novel walks, before its narrator finally leaves for the Netherlands.

Mugezi

The village in the Buganda countryside

Childhood

The narrator's early life plays out in a Catholic peasant household in the banana-growing country south of the capital, under a harsh mother and the wider upheaval of Idi Amin's Uganda. The setting is invented, but it belongs to rural Buganda, the green district country around towns like Mpigi.

Opening chapters, the village childhood

inferred The narrator's childhood village is fictional and unnamed on any map. It reads as rural Buganda in the hills southwest of Kampala, so this marks Mpigi, a Central Region town in that countryside, as a representative point.

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