This article audits the literary creative, and criticism careers of a special cohort of six Makerere University alumni. It claims that the creative oeuvre and literary critical scholarship of these Makerere University–trained writers and critics represents the finest turnout of the department. While their literary criticism and creativity started in the Department of Literature’s literary publication outlets of Penpoint and Dhana, we demonstrate how their careers grew both in and outside Makerere University. This is perhaps why our reading focuses on the public and critical reception of their creative publications and their contributions to literary critical scholarship of the continent. Our primary reading methodology is textual and content analysis of the literary creative and criticism archive produced by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Timothy Wangusa, Mary Karooro Okurut, Dominica Dipio, Susan Kiguli, and Evelyn Cindy Magara. Our selection is aware that Makerere University’s Department of Literature has produced many writers and critics. However, our subjective selection of the six focuses on the selected six’s creative and critical outputs over a period of 60 years.