Wasike, Chris J.C2019-09-252019-09-252011-05-1920091705-9100http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/178361"This article focuses on what I consider to be John Ruganda’s three most recognized, studied and politically engaging plays namely The Floods, The Burdens and Black Mamba. It is also the premise of this essay that the three plays by far represent the most sustained dramatic exposition of the political turmoil and decline that characterized the Ugandan nation in 1970s and 1980s. I am keen to illustrate how the playwright uses the female characters’ voices, bodies and their sexuality as a metaphor for reading the complexities, contradictions and constructions of the Ugandan nation especially during Idi Amin’s dictatorship. Fully aware that different scholars have pointed out the ambivalent reality of attempting to read the post-colonial African nation within the ambit of motherhood, I am not unproblematically seeking to oversimplify this trope into a stable monolithic concept that can easily be identified in literary works."(pg 1)engWith permission of the license/copyright holderfeminist ethicsCommunity ethicsLifestyle ethicsSocial ethicsFamily ethicsSexual orientation/genderArticle