In Kampala in 1961, at the age of 22, he founded Transition Magazine, which went on to become one of the most influential literary journals in Africa.
[5] After returning to Uganda in 1961, Neogy founded Transition, which soon came to be considered the leading journal of free expression in Africa.
Neogy claimed that he had been unaware of the source of CCF funding, but he was strongly criticised by members of Uganda's ruling Obote regime.
[7] In 1968, after Transition published a long editorial critical of the Ugandan government's authoritarianism, he was charged with sedition and spent months in detention before being acquitted and released.
[8][9] Leaving Uganda, he moved to Ghana in 1970, where he resumed publishing Transition with Wole Soyinka taking over as editor.