7-year-old Keith Galiwango is a sickle cell patient.  In his hometown of Nsotoka in the central Ugandan district of Kayunga, as in many other resource-poor regions of Africa, access to healthcare, diagnosis and treatment for sickle cell disease is often limited. That status quo, in many ways, indicates that many young African sickle cell ...

Edward Sseremba, 46, speaks Ruruuli, the native language of the Baruuli and Banyala peoples, who live in the central Ugandan districts of Nakasongola, Kayunga, and Masindi, in mid-western Uganda. Sseremba, a teacher, lives with his three children and wife in Kangulumira County in Kayunga.  Recent reports naming his language among 23 Ugand...

On his farm in Bunashimolo parish, Bushiende sub-county, Mbale, eastern Uganda, 47-year-old Andrew Wangota uses small scale agrivoltaics technology—the combination of solar energy (raised photovoltaic (PV) solar panels) with agriculture. The technology, which is a critical component of the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus, has enabled Wangot...

William Ruto, Kenya's President recently reiterated his pro-GMO stance as he engaged in a wide-ranging roundtable discussion with Kenyan journalists. Ruto who has been in the cross hairs of anti-GMO groups and individuals, including some who claim he refuses to rely on science to determine the safety of GMO products, defended his government's decis...

Enter your text here ... Kampala, a city teeming with philophobes - New Vision Official Enter some description here... https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/love/kampala-a-city-teeming-with-philophobes-149439

If you haven't noticed by now, Kampala is a city teeming with young and middle-aged fancy-free philophobes who, due to past hurtful personal experiences, now view or paint love or relationships as things to avoid. For starters, philophobia is the fear of falling in love or being in love). Evidently, many of Kampala's singles are yet to heal from th...

The Imbalu Black Mud swamp  Richard Wetaya reporting for Masaabachronicle TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WETbIfugD6k

Kenyans of different persuasions went to the polls on August 9 to vote in a general election that the Brookings Institution, an American think tank, contends will provide an important bellwether for where the African continent is heading. The stakes are high, and the world is keenly watching what is already an edgy two-horse race bet...

Preaching to Africa's GMO-averse countries and publics about the long-term merits of GM technology to the continent's agriculture systems remains very much a work in progress. More often than not, ignorance of the virtues of GM technology and unwarranted anti-GMO lobby narratives have stood in the way of progress. In recent years, however, the tide...

Click on the link and have a read.  Strides being made in Uganda's adult learning and education sector  Enter some description here... https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/education/strides-being-made-in-ugandas-adult-learning-139347

Have a listen here to my song-"Shakwa". Loosely translated "Shakwa" means "Something has fallen". I am the pioneer of Luma-flow which is rap or Hip Hop in Lumaasaba, a dialect spoken in Mbale, Eastern Uganda.Shakwa is one of those songs that made me a household name in Mbale and its environs in the mid-2000s. I was already a legend on the Radi...

The 12th edition of the Inter-University Humanitarian Law Moot court competition for Uganda ended last week with Cavendish University taking the top prize.  Gulu University came second in the annual competition, which was adjudicated by eminent Ugandan lawyers, Mike Chibita, Kabumba Busingye, Suzan Okalany, Harriet Ssali, James Nkuubi and...

A recent performance by Fazil on Yu's Hip Hop dance theater ensemble filled Uganda's National Theatre showroom with an unsettling crescendo of dramatic percussion soundscapes and deadpan spoken word poetry about Uganda's precarious status quo. With the "False manifesto, history is not the past "  show, Award-winni...

“Chill with all that fuss about good looks,” a friend once quipped as we talked one weekend at one of Kampala’s quiet rendezvous places. 

A couple of young nice-looking females were parleying in our midst.

“I am for brains over beauty. In propositioning to a lady, I place a premium on her intellect,” he closed out. 

In my reverie at home, I thought about what he had said. I thought to myself, that writing about would not be a bad idea after all.

 Later, I did some online searches and came across information that seemed to connect with what he was saying.

There is indeed a world out there where brains hold sway over beauty; a world where real people, yes real people looking for people to date, look beyond skin deep beauty as their foremost dating attribute.

That world, which has been christened the Sapiosexual world, is a world where people are attracted to someone of the opposite sex on account of their brain power or call it their intellect.

Only your smarts will get you into a prospective lover’s good graces and get you laid for good measure in the sapiosexual world.

Sapiosexuality is not an indelicate sexual orientation; so, trust me moralists like Pastor Ssempa will lose no sleep if they hear about it.

Ghana farmers optimistic about GMO crops, survey finds - Alliance for Science Enter some description here... https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/04/ghana-farmers-optimistic-about-gmo-crops-survey-finds/

Blue economy seen as catalyst for Africa's economic resurgence - Alliance for Science Enter some description here... https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/02/blue-economy-seen-as-catalyst-for-africas-economic-resurgence/

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,  Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.Alexander Pope 1688-1744 

Whilst it didn't devastate Africa's health systems as some analysts in the west had anticipated it would, COVID-19 did offer and still offers a new window of opportunity for African scientists to develop and modernize novel COVID-19 therapeutic drugs from African medicinal plants. The World Health Organization recognizes traditional medicine, princ...

Uganda's elections are on the horizon and there are indications that the country will likely be a tinderbox as the country goes to the polls early next year. Will the country be a political risk hotspot? At present, its short term political risk index from Marsh, the World's global leader in risk management does not make for goo...

Health and forests suffer as East Africa continues to rely on biomass fuels - Alliance for Science Enter some description here... https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/11/health-and-forests-suffer-as-east-africa-continues-to-rely-on-biomass-fuels/