Ugandans are book-poor, and getting more hungry

There is an old stereotypical, even racist, saying that if you want to hide something from an African, put it in a book. It is nonsense because the main problem is that many of the books out there are not interesting to Africans. Once there are books that speak to them,  they read in record numbers as they, especially African women, have with the works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

However, among Africans, there are those who read more than others. Or, at least, who buy and own more books than others. In the countries of the  Original East African Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)…