Quarantined: My Ordeal in Uganda’s Covid-19 Isolation Centers

by Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, Winnie Byanyima (Foreword)

An Inside Account from Uganda’s Coronavirus ‘Quarantine Prison Hotels' "This is a first-hand account of The Observer columnist and cartoonist, Dr Jimmy Spire Ssentongo who travelled from the UK, one of the high-risk coronavirus countries at the time." - The Observer "After 23 days in quarantine in Uganda — far longer than required — Jimmy Spire Ssentongo walked free in part because of a cartoon he drew." - AP News "Spire’s quarantine experience panned out like a short film." - Daily Monitor "Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, a cartoonist and university lecturer spoke up for people facing coronavirus injustice after he shared his quarantine experience on Facebook and criticised government unfairness in charging people in quarantine $100 a day." - The Guardian "First hand witnesses of Uganda’s quarantine system have their own horror story to tell." - The East African "A must read!" - Dr. Ekwaro A. Obuku, former president of Uganda Medical Association

132 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 24, 2021

Reviews

[Karen J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

A dramatic story in the time of COVID

I knew about Spire’s ordeal as it was happening, thanks to a mutual friend on Facebook. Here he adds life and personality to the account, in a memoir that reads like a novel. The story remains to be told of the privatizations other Ugandans suffered because of government’s heavy hand. Next, the movie?

[Henon Ataryeba · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enthralling, a tale of the plight of the quarantined. The injustices and sacrifices they went through. A wake up call to the government.

[Ivan Luyimbazi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good read

Spire clearly brought out the disorganisation and unpreparedness in MoH. Good they finally made it out of this brutal prison

[Lulu · Rating 4 out of 5]

You don't take away people's humanity in order to protect humanity otherwise you have really done nothing.