Muwado – Africa's Storytelling Platform | Jimmy Spire Ssentongo | Activity https://muwado.com/members/jimmy-ssentongo/activity/ Activity feed for Jimmy Spire Ssentongo. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:57:48 +0300 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 09e0e7989fb3bab8beb59e47356840d5 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the Profile Complete badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37235/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:05 +0300 0 0097fec68a04de4b6e4e49bb6c509079 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the 500 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37233/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:04 +0300 0 0097fec68a04de4b6e4e49bb6c509079 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the 100 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37231/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:04 +0300 0 43a3413607e6867f918a54706125455a Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the Profile Complete badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37230/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:03 +0300 0 43a3413607e6867f918a54706125455a Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the Monthly Consistent badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37229/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:03 +0300 0 43a3413607e6867f918a54706125455a Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the 500 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37228/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:03 +0300 0 43a3413607e6867f918a54706125455a Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the Marathon Writer badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37227/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:03 +0300 0 238b96d1851ab12ab351a8233c2ff81a Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the 100 Views badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37226/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:02 +0300 0 238b96d1851ab12ab351a8233c2ff81a Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the Storyteller badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37225/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:02 +0300 0 238b96d1851ab12ab351a8233c2ff81a Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the Monthly Consistent badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37224/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:02 +0300 0 12cf36536949453ad0bbb6447045b71f Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the First Story badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37223/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:01 +0300 0 12cf36536949453ad0bbb6447045b71f Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the Marathon Writer badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37222/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:01 +0300 0 12cf36536949453ad0bbb6447045b71f Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the Storyteller badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37220/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:01 +0300 0 94a48a2b06beda15d600d8007182e893 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo just earned the First Story badge on Muwado! https://muwado.com/activity/p/37218/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:00 +0300 0 3341bfe70d2a0ab7845784247d002c0d Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post https://muwado.com/?p=47537 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:23:52 +0300 Navigating the path between politics and religion: Lessons from Archbishop Joseph Kiwanuka Archbishop Joseph Nakabaale Kiwanuka Memorial Lecture delivered on 6th March 2025 at Pope Paul VI Memorial Hotel-Ndeeba under the theme: “Religion and […]

]]> 932a517c15cd24f238bcd87ae7e35538 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=28123 Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:45:00 +0300 I last had such a dream about three years ago. I had died, that way I was able to rub shoulders with the earth’s mighty and great that had earlier passed on. Among the dead, life’s conversations seemed to con […]

]]> 3ddd2a83a900654233209530581c912e Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=28119 Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:27:47 +0300 Kagame is typing …

UHURU: Guys, thanks for coming for Moi’s burial. Here Kenyans are still discussing his legacy. So much to learn and unlearn from this.

MZEE: Indeed, there is so much to learn.

Kagame is typ […]

]]> f9123fc6365d93b737394e2d09b8fbff Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=27489 Sat, 28 Dec 2019 14:18:25 +0300 7924d97a6ffe8d20e038a7869651bcf0 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo upvoted for The Still Wonder, Volume 2 – About Today https://muwado.com/activity/p/3873/ Sat, 28 Dec 2019 14:10:12 +0300 0 011930f5e454eca5a9e5b6e4280d3856 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=27308 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:45:19 +0300 ca1544f372a8661e1e266508369d5f7f Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=27305 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:34:02 +0300 304198e26ca0d7d363897e43526cfd31 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=27302 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:26:47 +0300 7a1112383ad7cea1d7b891bb7f7fa71a Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=27153 Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:28:44 +0300 3c51913b2ab598d04c567b6a19fb9171 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=27016 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:23:21 +0300 The more you think and learn about the world, the more you realize that it couldn’t have been a product of accident and that there are many bits that the evolutionary theory doesn’t really explain.

My view wou […]

]]> fc0bfdbc885c34fc419c9c8366a018a0 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=26391 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:25:34 +0300 Back in our childhood, our younger brothers used to get many favours from our parents. Our dad would always return from work with some special eats for them, and this often attracted our envy.We came up with a […]

]]> dbdb2b107ea5a907ac1b425c3fe824d8 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=26321 Fri, 25 Oct 2019 06:53:00 +0300 The subject of decolonisation pre-occupied Africa in most of the 1950s to the 1980s.Much attention went into shaping the postcolonial state, whose umbilical cords had not really been properly cut from their […]

]]> 798cb315edf4cedbdeaa3981f574bf71 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=25466 Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:59:16 +0300 In a speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1992, Bill Clinton said: “Frankly, I am fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our g […]

]]> 2f9032e6d93b5aab481a3099ec0dc061 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=25403 Fri, 20 Sep 2019 06:52:07 +0300 Every time I travel outside Africa, and sometimes within, two nagging feelings preoccupy me.First, there are many things one may easily take for granted about this small country that can only be appreciated while […]

]]> 2a1b7051f7f3a6d731ebf86b816acf6f Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=25301 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 16:13:17 +0300 Among other things that distinguish us as Ugandans is how we spend our income, or money we don’t earn, and the expectations we have on other people’s monies. As some people have argued, these tendencies are par […]

]]> 4fc2dbc5b5a7a664142a2f18157f7716 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo's profile was updated https://muwado.com/activity/p/3087/ Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:17:57 +0300 0 bd495e0c99441a06f41840c935e3500a Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=20408 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 14:20:13 +0300 It is fun in Uganda, in all senses of the word. Uganda will sometimes annoy you so intensively, and you find yourself desperately laughing.As I wrote a while ago, humor is one of the devices that enable us to get […]

]]> 29e19ef12ec64cd29349b446fa16af3e Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=14746 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 07:14:41 +0300 The Acholi say, latin ki cwinyo pwony kii ba ddero (an orphan hears good advice from behind the granary).Honourable Bobi Wine, wherever you are, hear this and understand it unequivocally – kindly consider l […]

]]> 20c0e26aa9667fc00a5a7dd8f3cf706b Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13752 Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:18:09 +0300 Every time her mum was mad about her actions, she would shout at her: ‘Mbwa ggwe’ (you dog).It was indeed the case that Nakato was cantankerous, but she was never comfortable with being related to a canine by her […]

]]> 58b85cc10e1ff7f95bde5ba4098694ea Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13619 Thu, 05 Jul 2018 09:00:20 +0300 It is Sunday morning, where one leg is out of bed while the rest of the body is rebelling.Eventually, I am pulled out by a phone call. It had been ringing repeatedly. I had ignored it, thinking it was the guy that […]

]]> 67c42bf2a14a2aab17c7fbbe062b6eeb Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13595 Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:26:25 +0300 One of the most cited quotes in the history of philosophy is a dictum attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates; that is, ‘an unexamined life is not worth living.’This statement borders on the obv […]

]]> e471a04f54bda09faa05406d192d7c46 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13478 Sun, 15 Apr 2018 01:55:22 +0300 Two weeks ago, I went to one of my Makerere University classes with Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks.Both are old and considerably popular books you […]

]]> 5ef2b11f144f8dfffcd83905155d32a2 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13388 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:07:23 +0300 Some time ago, I wrote suggesting that, given our trying circumstances in Uganda, we need more alcohol and jokes to keep us going.It is difficult to be both sober and happy at the same time about what happens in […]

]]> 4f86935e2236d3c33e9da3a923097dd3 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13363 Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:49:24 +0300 On January 24, 2018, Uganda Martyrs University held its Annual Research Conference.Prof John Opuda-Asibo, the executive director of the National Council for Higher Education, was the guest speaker. He talked at […]

]]> 238d3878711d1056a00a4ccce3f7382c Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13361 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:37:44 +0300 I am writing in application for a job in your esteemed association. I believe I have all the credentials to qualify for the highly-respectable jobs your gang does for our country.Before I go into the gist of this […]

]]> 55bc50d0c61c3bab948052976d58f7a7 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13139 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:53:20 +0300 Erma Bombeck, an American humorist, observes that “the odds of going to the store [supermarket] for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one”.Money available, chances are […]

]]> 38c6808a0432af0a741f49984e579d8f Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13120 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:09:46 +0300 On December 15, 2017, the Society for Justice and National Unity (SoJNU) – a national think-tank composed of public-interested Ugandans – held a symposium on ‘The political and economic consequences of presi […]

]]> 499e86a48753ffb0bcb1445cee2e278a Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13092 Sat, 06 Jan 2018 17:02:21 +0300 You must have seen the awesome picture that has been traversing social media lately.Yes, that of our president playing cards with his grandchildren. It was the kind that every child would envy. There is always […]

]]> 8f51f316585a7288c3a55c14c8e0597c Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13034 Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:40:28 +0300 Sectarianism is one of the forbidden practices under our laws.But it appears we have failed to really understand the spirit and interpretation of this noble law, hence its constant mis-reference.It is, therefore, […]

]]> 7e141b1dde2dec4d9c622fed7f7b0547 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=13019 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:42:43 +0300 Greek philosopher Plato said that “the measure of a man [woman] is what he does with power”.Abraham Lincoln would later re-echo Plato, saying: “Nearly all men [women] can stand adversity, but if you want to test […]

]]> 312085428c9d94ea324747f7483ca917 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=12886 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 22:29:26 +0300 One of the oldest disciplines in formal education is philosophy. Most other disciplines are known to have been birthed by philosophy.

It is partly in recognition/acknowledgement of the fact that philosophy […]

]]> 47422e6b021ff3c54e20f3385e09eb09 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=12798 Thu, 02 Nov 2017 06:07:02 +0300 Sometime in the 1980s, a dream went around causing a lot of excitement in the Animal farm that had lived under teary times of one Man after the other. The dream painted a rosy picture of the great times that lay […]

]]> 020e60ddb8649e29754d82a1a9d90357 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=12822 Tue, 31 Oct 2017 06:01:40 +0300 A few months ago, I had a chat with a Makerere University literature lecturer about satirical writing.He had earlier told me that he uses my writings in his classes and had got many recurrent questions from […]

]]> 7c5069baeeaa82f0fb6815e1b028dd38 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=12795 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:45:47 +0300 Having observed what is going on in the consultations held so far, as a patriot, I find it important to issue some guidelines to be followed.First of all, both sides should keep in mind that this is not meant to […]

]]> 627543548bcf67a9541ca87027ce246e Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=12721 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:03:58 +0300 Your Excellency, once again I thank you for the humility and democratic spirit that allows you to respond to people like Bobi Wine (Robert Kyagulanyi) that you would ignore without losing anything.

I hope he […]

]]> cfa56255fd55e87345e3ef1eeb12acb5 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo wrote a new post http://muwado.com/?p=12671 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 09:05:15 +0300 One of the people whose brilliance, boldness, resolve, and charisma I really admire is the South African legendary anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko.

He was the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, […]

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