I detail the workings of Uganda’s National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC). More in particular, I focus on the attempts of three native language devotes of Lusoga to produce teaching materials for primary, secondary and tertiary education. No matter that two of these colleagues obtained a PhD in African languages (one in literature/culture, the other in linguistics), no matter that all three of them funded literally years of literature/culture and language research in Busoga from their own pockets, no matter that one of them frequently publishes research on Lusoga in top linguistics journals, no matter that all three went as far as producing and actually having their teaching materials published at own cost, … – whenever their books are submitted for ‘evaluation’ to the NCDC, they are rejected.