Stories about home, memory and the places in between.
Essays and fiction by Denis Okot — author of “The River Remembers”.
Recent essays
The last bus to Lira
On leaving, returning and the road that holds both.
My grandmother’s radio
What a crackling transistor taught me about news.
Kampala at 5am
The city before it remembers to be loud.
Rain on iron roofs
A love letter to the sound of the wet season.
Books
The River Remembers
A novel about two brothers and the Nile that divides them. Shortlisted for the 2025 Jalada Prize.
Available in paperback
From bookshops across East Africa.
Audiobook
Narrated by the author.
A quiet, luminous debut that stays with you long after the last page.
The East African ReviewBooks of the year