Field Notes II: It’s all hearsay

Week 4 of researching a historical novel in southwestern Uganda.

Since the last Field Notes, I’ve conducted two interviews – that sounds far more professional than the reality – plus many informal conversations; I discovered a chart of clans and sub-clans in a local museum; found myself drinking mildly alcoholic obusheera in a tiny one-room bar with wheezy men arguing about political posters; was recruited to join sa…