Rajat Neogy, Transition magazine and the “Asian Question” in Post-Independent Uganda

Abstract

One afternoon in November 1961, a young man with a “[b]ig beard, lots of hair [and] huge black brooding eyes” (Hume 1967, 35), walked into a bar in Kampala carrying copies of an English-language magazine. As the young man pushed through the lunchtime crowd, an Englishman tore a copy, stomped on it, and shouted: “That’s what I think of your magazine!” (Hume 1967, 35).