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Stories

The Wrong Train

Three passengers on a Uganda Railways train trip to Mombasa miraculously escape from a merciless soulsucking monster named Onzi [Lugbara Translate: Bad]...


Ojapi

Have you seen that red beast that hides behind Mt. Liru? It only comes out after dusk and even lions are afraid of it. However, there is also a building where it is afraid to step into...


She Wore A Green Attire

Also entitled SWAGA, this is the electric story of Peace Asindriza (aka Pisi) and Samuel Andrew Mawa (SAM) plus the elusive Wolf who steals, kills and destroys; it's a modern Ugandan rendition of the European "Little Red Riding Hood" fable. Set in Arua (West Nile) during Twenty19, the wolfhunter falls in love with Green Hood...


Doctor Luke (Iron Grasshopper)

Depression is a choice! Pain is inevitable, the Devil's test is guaranteed, sadness will come but suffering is a decision. From Maracha to the rest of the world, Dr. Luke Ise heals people who are hurt. Are you feeling low and cursed? Is your heart damaged by the events (or negative moments) in your life: Cheating, Separation, Loss, Hate, Rejection, Lack, Failure, Hunger, Accident, Loneliness, Despair, Rebuke, Unemployment, Disappointment, Mockery, Grief, Hopelessness, Sickness, Poverty, Boredom, etc? Do you lack money? Are you ill with one of the 39 diseases? Then mindhop; turn to GOD: Be healed in the name of JESUS...

Arua Boys

Two homeboys - Digi (Musa Munguleni aka 22) and Lynx (John "Black" Draku) want to quit smuggling from DR Congo because of the ruthless URA Enforcement Division (2005) that has shot dead some of their fellow smugglers, but Lord Of Bangi (L.O.B.) known to them as Big Leaf whom they still owe money paid in advance wants his oil. Life is a beautiful struggle...


Love Consultants

Who do you ask for advice about love? Money cannot buy love but it improves the chances by 21 percent...


Ovakedo

Welcome to Anzi Amvu [Lugbara Translate: Children's Garden] in Vegetarua...


Ditch 

This is a short story about rejection, bouncing back and using your time to move forward instead of committing suicide. Walking with her workmate on Tuesday 28th July 2026 along Weatherhead Park Lane (in Lugbaratown) as they go for breakfast, brownskinned Lekuru (who had just returned from South Africa) asks Ini [Translated from Lugbara: Darkness or Gloom] if he can teach her how to play pool which he refers to as snooker from computer games he played. Ini says Yes even when he doesn't know the physical sport well, but believes he can polish up quickly and get a chance to feel Lekuru's voluptuous behind while training her. Ini has a crush on his workmate whose home he visits intentionally every month in two years to make her get used to him without revealing his deepest want upfront, but then utilises Lekuru's pool request as a passcode to stealthily touch her right bum near the backpocket before the actual training day. Furious and feeling sexually assaulted plus wronged, Lekuru (clad in a smart khaki suit) spitefully pushes Ini like a punk into the filthy ditch on his left. She remorselessly crosses the road and gets into a car going in the opposite direction; on board are three men who laugh at a shocked Ini struggling to get up from the drainage rainwater like a drunkard. (One woman passing by wonders: Do you want to die? Meanwhile, a man calls him a destitute. For almost one year before both leave their workplace due to end of contracts, Ini never visits Lekuru at home again.) The car drives away and some minutes later, a supercalm woman (whose name Ini does not know) clad in a skyblue blouse as well as white skirt comes around and reaches out to pull Ini from the ditch. People around cannot believe her: She hugs him and rubs his back healing his wrecked heart instantly, then takes Ini to her perfumed home plus buys him brunch (matoke, cow intestines and NRM-yellow orange juice). Ini becomes her friend and occasionally sends MTN Momo as appreciation; Liru assures him that his friendship boosts her self esteem. He labels her a supershero and cherishes Liru's courtesy though some people who know both of them say she only dates men in the galactic league. Others malign her as a slut, but Ini doesn't care (Nobody is perfect); she tells him not to worry because she reduced her drinking and only goes to bars to watch people. Liru (who recognises Ini's natural brightness) asks him to write for her a statement of intent for a Masters degree at Hippo Campus and recommends him for a city job. After over three years, Lekuru apologises "for being a bitch" and treating Ini unkindly in the past, confesses that she cried and wondered how it could have been if they hadn't grown apart, but he tells Lekuru that he forgave her a long time ago and detached his heart from chasing after her for peace of mind. Rejection is redirection. If you can't get what you want, then stop wanting it, but instead want what you get. Depression is a choice, not a monster!


Investigation

A bicycle bodaman is investigated by jealous Police on suspicion of pedalling drugs simply because he rents a house worth 600,000 UgX per month and has a beautiful wife...

Arua Leopardman

Jaremy [Hebrew meaning "GOD will uplift"] is a suicide-prevention vigilante and fisherman who saves people from killing themselves: Depression is a choice. Nobody knows who his father is (Rumours claim his mother was raped); Oduo became born again and changed his name to Simon Odu [Leopardman] on Thursday 9th April 2026 from the one given by his dying mother's Nigerian midwife after she asked her what a leopard is in Lugbara (because of the unusual spots on her baby); he adopted the first name of his maternal uncle who brought him up. The older Simon used to fish in Madiland and sometimes took Odu with him before committing suicide by drowning in Lake Rokoze (Maracha). In his first suicide rescue, Leila (a mother of three by three different fathers) attempts to drown herself in River Enyau. In Episode 2, Maritini (12-year-old boy) almost hangs himself with a belt in the bathroom because his parents are too busy to check nor help him with school-given homework; he feels neglected. E3 is about Esita who cannot find school fees to complete Senior 6; she drinks poison. E4 features Idi who wants to burn himself inside his hut after being rejected by four women he loved. During Episode 5, Odu finds love in Sosa Aleru whom he saves from jumping off a four-storeyed building in Osu Village. E6 is about a student while E7 is about a mother. In E8, a farmer sees no way out and wants to consume pesticide while E9 is about a youth who thinks no one understands her. In E10, an elder feels like a burden. E11 features a suicide survivor sueing Odu in court for saving him yet he wants to depart from Earth while E12 is a failed rescue (Second in his vigilante career) after victim shoots himself through the mouth with his honourable father's pistol. E13 is the Rise of the Dog. E14 is about a couple planning to wed who attempt suicide after a man who owed the bride's father refuses to pay off a loan on which interest had accrued. E15 is about a South Sudanese campuser who tries to hang himself after losing his laptop. E16 is about a businessman who loses everything. E17 features a teen girl who feels ugly and worthless. E18 is about a hardworking teacher who sees no changes. E19 is on a jilted young man drowning his pain of rejection in alcohol while E20 is about an addict who uses syringes...


Kubaku

An egg-ceptional supershero from United Gombololas (UG) who studied with the Arua Leopardman at Muni Oasis; Fullname: Amina Kubakurungi...


Return of Legion

A Ugandan studying in Mexico is arrested by Federales after being spotted at a Sombrero Restaurant talking to a mysterious woman under investigation...


6:66 AM

Based on a True Story about an early morning encounter with the Devil...


My Green Island

What four items would you take if cast away or abandoned on a lonely island?


Dragon Man

Do you believe people who say that they have seen the Devil?


Mama Butunda

Her campus friends disown her because she sells passion fruits in the market...


Shield of Faith

My name is Paul. When we began, we were only three, but the Devil took two away from me (my daughter and then my wife). Now am going to hunt him down with my son... In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the Evil One (Ephesians 6:16)... (290423)


Americanese

A halfbreed foreigner donning a hat and walking in the hood while minding his own business is scrutinised by locals with plenty of curiosity; they half surround him trying to figure out if he's American or Chinese. He lights a cigar and walks back to the direction he came from...


Savana

Ama nga a'du nya; ama nga aa ngoa; ama nga a'du su? Ase; grass by grace... (221124)


Binman

When trash is thrown at you, sort it! Then break, burn or decompose...


[Written by Aiko for Arua Comics (2014-Now)]