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A Year of Voices, Growth, and Community: The Journey of Lira Kreativ Kave .
This year has been nothing short of transformative for Lira Kreativ Kave. What began as a simple idea — a small space where young creatives could meet, share, and express […] More
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in Business and Entrepreneurship, Cinema, Competitions and Challenges, Events, Identity & Culture, Movies and Television, Music and Dance, Photography, Poetry, Theatre, Visual Art, Writing and LiteratureLira Kreativ Kave: 2025 Year In Review
2025 has been one of those years that quietly changes you. When the year began, Lira Kreativ Kave was still more of an idea than a structure — a small, […] More
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in Education and Academia, Family, Friends and Relationships, Finance, Markets and Economics, Identity & Culture, Law, Crime and Justice, Politics and GovernmentWhen Theft Becomes Survival: Who Will Save Uganda?
Three years ago, I walked through a beautiful eco-resort hotel in Uganda with a European friend of mine who owned it. It was the kind of place any country would […] More
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RECLAIMING THE FUTURE OF BUSOGA
Submitted to the Joint Abasoga Nseete National Students Association Conference held in Conjunction with the Balunywa Leadership This article is a vital piece of scholarship – a compelling synthesis of […] More
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Spice Diana and Uncle Chumi saved my life
I was unwell. So I took a break from everything. On one of the darkest days, I ran into Spice Diana and Uncle Chumi’s song, Gwokute Gwobba. I was enthralled […] More
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Why Uganda Needs the Old and Elderly towards the 22nd Century: Safeguarding Ecological Identity Against the Politics of Interests
Abstract As Uganda commemorates the 60th anniversary of its formation from 15 ancient traditional nations on 9th October 2026, this article argues that the nation is committing a slow, silent […] More
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in Education and Academia, Identity & Culture, Innovation, Science and Technology, Music and Dance, 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 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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ACTION IS POLLINATION
What if your power isn’t in what you create alone, but in what your creation triggers in others? I believe the act of sharing is the root of human progress. […] More
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The Girl in The Yellow Jumper : A movie shouting impunity, mob justice, child sexual abuse and torture in Uganda.
Movie Review : The Girl in The Yellow Jumper. Dorothy, a Medical officer attends to a 12-year-girl old rushed to the hospital after a botched abortion. Before the child dies, […] More
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Bye Donnas: Call Me Ojok Okello!
On 26th June 1986 at 07.30AM EAT I transitioned from my mother’s womb at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya into this cosmos. She named me Steven Ojok. Ojok, my paternal uncle […] More
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What is Joseph Kabuleta exactly saying?
I have always loved Joseph Kabuleta’s writing. He earned my respect as a humane being when I learnt that he boycotts Shell products because the company is stained with the […] More
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Drawing insights into human traits from wondering at the Cycle.
During my morning walks, I see an old man every day with a florescent raincoat on top slightly hunching riding a classic cycle and delivering the newspapers to the houses […] More
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The Police Cell Felt Like Home.
I cannot wait to make some parts of my life into a television series. I’m still quite young and there’s more to experience, so who knows how many seasons it […] More
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WHY THE OLD AND ELDERLY SHOULD MATTER IN UGANDA TODAY AND TOMORROW
The past, present and future are interconnected. In this interconnection, the elderly are a critical, essential and central factor. Without the elderly being well looked after, a nation loses its […] More
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Let Decolonization Go Beyond Street Names
The decolonization question on dismantling colonial symbols in Uganda is dangerously producing two intellectual camps – the nativist pundits whose history is of only a glorifiable past despite the well-intentioned […] More
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ON SOUTHERN PRIVILEGE AND THE ESSENTIAL THING…
2006 was the first time I crossed Karuma Falls. A school trip by the Institute of Psychology, MUK. We were visiting IDP camps. I never told my parents I was […] More
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Balding Is My Privilege!
Most Batswana struggle to think of a Setswana word for balding that is not understood as ridicule. I, like many balding Batswana men, know just how great the fear of […] More
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