A REVIEW OF THE BURDEN BOOK
The burden it’s a play book written by John Ruganda about Wamala a politician who had
successfully managed to accumulate wealth as a minister in a post-independence Africa. He was
detained for plotting to overthrow the government with the foreigners and later he was set
free. After Wamala is pardoned, he finds out that he has been stripped of everything making
him fails to meet family obligations. Making him realizes that those on top find hunger and
poverty. He relives his former situation by living a life of illusions and dreams. This is evident in
the book when he tries to sell the idea of producing match sticks with two ends side to Vincent,
as well as the idea of selling slogans to political movements (p 21-30). He results to being
alcoholic addict and a regular customer of Republic Bar.
His wife Tinka accepts the reality and agrees to descend the ladder. Her wife who lives with their
only two children, namely Kaija and Nyakake brews traditional alcohol and makes mats and sell
them in the slum they live in.
The book contains three parts. Part 1 poses the problem deceptively, as if the argument going
on is the familiar one of the neglected wife exploiting sympathy from her two children and using
it to fight his husband. She tells stories and songs to her children to indirectly narrates about the
past as well as spreading hatred against her husband (p 10-15). In part 2, there is a lot of
tensions in the family bringing up their past and end which was marked by the greatest
confrontation. At the end of act 2, Wamala exhibited an impression which was an indication of
his last moment choice, to find his feet as a man or to under finally (P 65) Act 3 reveals the
aftermath of his choice.
The burden it’s a play book written by John Ruganda about Wamala a politician who had
successfully managed to accumulate wealth as a minister in a post-independence Africa. He was
detained for plotting to overthrow the government with the foreigners and later he was set
free. After Wamala is pardoned, he finds out that he has been stripped of everything making
him fails to meet family obligations. Making him realizes that those on top find hunger and
poverty. He relives his former situation by living a life of illusions and dreams. This is evident in
the book when he tries to sell the idea of producing match sticks with two ends side to Vincent,
as well as the idea of selling slogans to political movements (p 21-30). He results to being
alcoholic addict and a regular customer of Republic Bar.
His wife Tinka accepts the reality and agrees to descend the ladder. Her wife who lives with their
only two children, namely Kaija and Nyakake brews traditional alcohol and makes mats and sell
them in the slum they live in.
The book contains three parts. Part 1 poses the problem deceptively, as if the argument going
on is the familiar one of the neglected wife exploiting sympathy from her two children and using
it to fight his husband. She tells stories and songs to her children to indirectly narrates about the
past as well as spreading hatred against her husband (p 10-15). In part 2, there is a lot of
tensions in the family bringing up their past and end which was marked by the greatest
confrontation. At the end of act 2, Wamala exhibited an impression which was an indication of
his last moment choice, to find his feet as a man or to under finally (P 65) Act 3 reveals the
aftermath of his choice.
