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Why the world I was prepared for no longer exists.
I Was Raised For a World That No Longer Exists As a child, the world that I was raised to face when grown, the one I was promised, prepared, and […] More
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The Storyteller’s Evolving Mind: A Glimpse into a Year of Writing “Dear Darling” Short Film
What is one to do when you are not enough? I always wanted to bite a dog. Fight a storm, bribe my God or find a soul. The heart of […] More
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Scaffolding
Scaffolding What is the skeleton of your dream? What holds your ideas together? And what is hope built on? Our homes are made of rocks, sand, wood and metal. Engineers […] More
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Hair, Faith, and Freedom – A Reflection on African Bodies and Christian Judgment
At one point, I had the opportunity to spend time with Nnedi Okorafor, a storyteller I deeply admire, during a storytellers’ conference in Germany where we served together on a […] 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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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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Life 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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in Business and Entrepreneurship, Education and Academia, Family, Friends and Relationships, Health and Medicine, 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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Gay or not Gay, Activist or not Activist: There is Nothing “In-between”.
As a young Ugandan storyteller, I have always thought, though naively, that there would never come a time when I have to address a sect of activists who do not […] More
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Dealing with social media for a stress-free life
In order to live a stress-free life, if you see a post on social media that infuriates you, rather than arguing and insulting the poster, it’s best you just scroll […] More
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She’s 22. She wants to be President, then quit to run the UN. And she’s dead serious.
I Sat With a 22-Year-Old Who Made Me Believe Uganda will be okay After years of reading policy papers, sitting through conferences, and watching the same problems recycled into the […] More
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South Africa’s Xenophobia Problem — Let’s Stop Pretending
Here’s a tell: call almost any South African and they’ll ask you “How is Africa?” — as if their country somehow floats off the southern tip of the continent on […] More
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Visible Yet So Invisible.
On Valentine’s Day, a couple of friends and I sat down to watch ‘Set It Up’, a romantic comedy, because that’s not the cheesiest thing one might do on V-Day! […] More
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Uganda’s homophobic madness
So, Uganda’s parliament once again passed a law to hang homosexuals. This was done in the most democratic manner possible: 400 out of 557 MPs (73%) overwhelmingly voted for the […] More
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All for one, one for all: We can learn from Boda boda riders’ solidarity of reaching out to one another when in trouble
RECENTLY, the big man Dj Nimrod put me up for sale on his Facebook page under the banner ‘for sale’. We happen to have many common friends and at the […] More
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How Not to Fight Tribalism
The debate on tribalism in Uganda has headlined recent national conversations. Police summons and arrests of creative artists critiquing the reality of tribalism, have rather popularised the issue. In a […] More
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Common Western Myths About Africa
Africa is a beautiful continent full of warm receptive people from the many different countries which you can easily access. Most countries, unlike what you see on the media are […] More
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#CindyVsSheebah, What Was The Real Issue?
Unfortunately, this #CindyVsSheebah battle was not about the music. We knew from the get go that Cindy Sanyu is the musical talent. Whilst, Sheeba Samali Karungi is the creative genius. […] More
