# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/moses-isegawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:27:08.601Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/moses-isegawa"
name: "Moses Isegawa"
slug: "moses-isegawa"
description: "Moses Isegawa, also known as Sey Wava, is a Ugandan author. He has written novels set against the political turmoil of Uganda, which he left in the 1990s for the Netherlands. His debut novel, Abyssinian Chronicles, was first published in Amsterdam in 1998, selling more than 100,000 copies and gaining him widespread national attention. It was also very well reviewed when published in English in the United Kingdom and United States, in 2001. Isegawa became a naturalized Dutch citizen, but he returned to live in Uganda in 2006."
tagline: "Ugandan writer"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-08-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.27588266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Moses Isegawa"
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    title: "Moses Isegawa"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump