The authorVictor Lugala is a South Sudanese journalist, poet and short story writer. He was educated in Sudan, Tanzania and Kenya where he received a master's degree in Communications from Daystar University. Among his self-published works are Pot of Tears, Beating the Drums of War, collection of poems and Vomiting Stolen Food, a satire about corruption in his home country, South Sudan.Lugala's fame rests mainly with his long running humour column, "The Shoeshiner, which began in 2003 on the pages of the Sudan Mirror, a weekly publication for Sudan, based at the time in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. After the Mirror folded several years later, the popular column resurfaced in the Pioneer, another weekly that was launched in South Sudan in 2010. The Pioneer ceased publication in 2013.
- | Author: Victor Lugala
- | Publisher: Africa World Books Pty Ltd
- | Publication Date: Jul 13, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 76 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 098761410X
- | ISBN-13: 9780987614100