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Maama NAKI’s TALES
TITLE ; MAAMA NAKI’S TALES Meet maama naki the woman of few words HELLO everyone I am maama Nakiggudde. I enjoy conversations if you need any updates about my village […] More
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KAMPALA PHOTOWALK DISCOVERS HIDDEN CHAMPIONS IN KAMWOKYA
What began as a routine photowalk through the streets of Kamwokya by photographers Hoonigrapher, Bryan Odong, and Alvin Tonda evolved into an inspiring encounter with a youth chess club led […] More
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General O: The Pubunngu Files
The archive in Bombo was not meant to be remembered. It was a place built to contained top military secrets, especially those labeled as Rated Externally Dangerous files or R.E.D. […] More
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General O: The Curse of Qashqash’s Staff
General Okello had gone to Area 56 and returned, bringing with him something people did not have a name for, so they called it the elixir of life, which he […] More
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in Fiction, Identity & Culture, Journalism and Media, Law, Crime and Justice, Politics and Government, Travel and AdventureLife in Exile: ACT ONE; THE BREAKING OF A MAN
Chapter Three: Zeitgeist After receiving words from Oburu—who claimed to have once known Peter Kaburu’s parents—I felt that familiar stirring that every journalist recognizes but rarely trusts: instinct. It did […] More
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Life in Exile: Act One; The Breaking of a Man
CHAPTER TWO: THE HEADLINE THAT WEEK That week did not unfold. It collided—unreasonably. Not in a single moment that could be pointed at and named,but in overlapping fragments. Things that […] More
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Dear Old flame,
It was the jackfruit tree that took my virginity. I lied, it wasn’t you. I am the first child and only girl to my parents, followed by five boys. I […] More
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RECLAIMING THE FUTURE OF UGANDA: THE PRAXIS OF INTELLECTUAL LIBERATION
A Manifesto for a New Liberation in the 21st Century and Beyond Introduction: The Giant Prison and the Occupied Mind Uganda is not merely in a political crisis. It […] More
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WHY I DON’T HAVE A STRONG AFFINITY TOWARDS CONSTITUTIONALLY CREATED CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN UGANDA.
Article Marking My Birthday – 27 July 2025 WHY I DON’T HAVE A STRONG AFFINITY TOWARDS CONSTITUTIONALLY CREATED CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN UGANDA By Oweyegha-Afunaduula Conservation Biologist, Center for Critical Thinking […] More
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in Education and Academia, Identity & Culture, Innovation, Science and Technology, Music and Dance, Politics and Government, Visual Art, Writing and LiteratureWhy Uganda Needs the Arts and Social Sciences Towards the 22nd Century: Reclaiming Integrated Knowledge
Introduction A dangerous and short-sighted intellectual apartheid is being engineered in Uganda today. The NRM regime, with President Tibuhaburwa Museveni as its most vocal proponent, has openly declared an unprincipled […] More
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in History & Heritage, Identity & Culture, Law, Crime and Justice, Politics and Government, War and ConflictGulu’s Golden Handshake: Has the Hawk Agreed to Live Together with the Eagle?
In this analytical piece, I try to look in between the lines on last week’s Handshake and what it could mean to Acholi. If you are a short text reader, […] More
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in Fiction, Identity & Culture, Land, Law, Crime and Justice, Politics and Government, Thrillers and Horrors, War and ConflictLife in Exile: Act 1; The Breaking of a Man
CHAPTER ONE: THE TRAJECTORY OF PETER KABURU Peter Kaburu did not understand the scale of the conflict he had already entered. To him, the summons delivered to him in Kampala […] More
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Life in Exile: Act Two – The Bridge of Silence
Chapter Nine: Untamed Judgment Untamed judgment is a dangerous thing. Once it escapes the boundaries of reason, it hunts every shadow as though it were the truth. It no longer […] More
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in Finance, Markets and Economics, Identity & Culture, Law, Crime and Justice, Politics and GovernmentWhen human rights are not trendy
Once upon a time, human rights were the bare minimum that every human being would expect. Universality. Inalienability. Indivisibility. When, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set down […] More
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in Business and Entrepreneurship, Education and Academia, Family, Friends and Relationships, Health and Medicine, History & Heritage, Identity & CultureThe legacy of grandpa.
Penning my journal. Stumbled in this pic of grandpa Ezekiel Omkhulu on my maternal side back taken in his sunset years in the 1970s’. In the 1920s he worked in King […] More
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LIFE IN EXILE: ACT ONE: THE BREAKING OF A MAN
Chapter Four: A Network of Ghost Roads I woke that morning inside a room that looked less like a bedroom and more like the preserved memory of a man who […] More
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“THE PROBLEM OF AFRICA” AND OTHER DELUSIONS
There are many people-some Black Africans- that would have us believe that the institutional and nation-building failures we face across the continent are uniquely African. That there is something particularly […] More
