Even the strongest of men, writes the poet, fire their last shot and sleep.

Erotic but apt, the statement by Sam Mugumya, a Ugandan poet, captures the vanity of power in its ephemeral element; excitement, fleeting, deceiving.

Mugumya is not just a poet.

He is a political activist who has braved eight-year imprisonment in the Democratic Republic of Congo's prison, Militaire de Ndolo, courtesy of his political activism in Uganda.