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Nov
20

Podcast: Trump disapprovingly branded African nations as S-Hole nations. Look who is acting like despots from some of those nations now.

An Alex McCrae illustration

So we now know for sure that an election loss is not after all a bitter pill to swallow for disgruntled African Politicians only. By refusing to concede defeat to Joe Biden in what US authorities are calling one of the most secure elections in US history, Trump has shown the world that he has something in common with some of the third world's paria...

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Nov
04

Podcast: It's the Climax: Trump or Biden, who will emerge victor of the 2020 US Presidential Election?

Casino Connection Picture

In this Podcast, I cast an eye on the most important day in the American electoral process, which dawned yesterday. It coincided with the nomination of firebrand Ugandan Politician /Musician, Bobi Wine as a Presidential candidate.As the day progresses, many global citizens, myself included, will be watching keenly as one of the most ...

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Nov
04

Podcast: Its the Climax: Trump or Biden, who will emerge victor of the 2020 US Presidential Election?

In this Podcast, I cast an eye on the most important day in the American electoral process, which dawned yesterday. As the day progresses, many global citizens, myself included, will be watching keenly as one of the most momentous Presidential elections in American history reaches a climax. The world is waiting to see how the scales will tip. Plug-...

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Oct
27

The purpose of mudding swamps in the traditional circumcision ritual of Eastern Uganda

Wetaya Richard Picture

Very early in the morning on the 10th of September, three elders from Bunanyuma village in Bushika sub-county in Bududa district in the East of Uganda silently stomped a sacred waterlogged ground, until it was reduced to mire.The mire, which was being readied for one of the most sacred Imbalu or traditional circumcision rituals, known in ...

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Oct
24

Podcast: Trump or Biden, who will win the 2020 US Presidential Election? Part one

Gage Skidmore photo

Cast your mind back to 2016, when almost every pollster predicted that Hillary Clinton would win the US Presidential election. It was, of course, an anticlimax for the Dems and glee for the Reps.  Fast forward to 2020 and here we are, Trump is again behind in the Polls, just days to the election.Will the pollsters...

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Oct
01

Ugandan police arrest activists demanding climate

The activists started their strike from the Lake Victoria shore in Ggaba, Kampala

Ugandan police arrest activists demanding climate action - Alliance for Science Enter some description here... https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/09/ugandan-police-arrest-activists-demanding-climate-action/?fbclid=IwAR1XVGZm85jgglrOv3TrGelmhsJHGIlbYheASMeJTegF7SGfvg4bIvqMIaI

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Sep
03

Podcast: African security forces brutality during Covid-19 lock-downs-Part 2

Violators of the Covid-19 curfew being arrested in Kampala, Uganda

In part two of this Podcast, I disabuse some of the false impressions created by some western media outlets on the heavy-handedness of some African security forces during COVID-19 lockdowns. Some headlines in western media like the [France 24] April story headline entitled-" Curfew crackdowns in several African countries kill more people than ...

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Aug
29

The longer COVID-19 rears it's ugly head-The longer the Devil dances in the empty pockets of Ugandan musicians

Photo montage of Uganda's leading male musicians-Jose Chameleone, Bobi Wine and Bebe Coolsicians-

Looking into my crystal ball, I can ably predict that the longer COVID-19 keeps rearing its ugly head, the scarier it will likely get for Ugandan musicians, specializing in genres, where getting appreciated, however hardworking one is, is akin to casting pearls before swine. For the Ugandan music industry in general and am just an innocent crystal ...

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Aug
28

Podcast: African security forces brutality during Covid-19 lock-downs-Part 1

A member of the Ugandan Police enforcing the COVID-19 Curfew in Kampala

In part one of this Podcast, I speak at length about the brutality of Ugandan and other African security forces during the COVID-19 lockdowns. I sounded out seasoned Ugandan lawyers on the issue and also spoke to Felix Okia, a social worker in Bukedea, Eastern Uganda, who was wrongly arrested for ostensibly moving past the 7 p.m curf...

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Aug
21

Sexualized music videos debauching Uganda's young

Sheeba one of Uganda's premier female musicians performing

At their own free will and on occasion as a requirement from the music video directors, their bodies are used as props to eroticize the music videos, your children regularly watch and imitate. With skintight crop tops, rompers, and other provocative lingerie, the young women, with the approbation of video scriptwriters, engage in objectifying ...

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Aug
17

Uganda-pays-subsidies-to-improve-small-farm-productivity

https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/07/uganda-pays-subsidies-to-improve-small-farm-productivity/

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Jul
17

Divorce for pastors, marriage for Catholic clergy - a new normal?

Bill Kochman cartoon

Divorce For Pastors, Marriage For Catholic Clergy A New Normal? Biggest News Source for News in Uganda and the East African Region ,Breaking news in Uganda and Daily news and the latest from Uganda https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1511811/divorce-pastors-marriage-catholic-clergy-normal

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Jul
15

Death by COVID-19, a eulogy for journalism

Media-track picture

By David Lumu It had been coming for many years now. But the COVID-19 pandemic put a fine point on the impending Armageddon that hovers over the horizon of good old journalism as we have known it for ages. The pandemic struck the deathly blow to media house revenues that highlighted just how feeble our livelihoods are; it allowed the security force...

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Jul
12

Episode 2: Anti-racism/anti-police brutality songs.

Courtesy Photo

In episode two of this podcast, I present to you more flavours of some powerful anti-racism/anti-police brutality songs. The 2019 Ugandan anti-police brutality song "Afande" by the firebrand People Power President, Bobi Wine is included and also in one of the Africa anti-racism protests sound bytes I use, a Nigerian protestor tells a short sto...

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Jul
09

Music as a vehicle of protest against social injustice

While not all music genres take the liberty to speak out often against social injustices, there are those to whom it has become an incumbent duty, too. From the years of old, Hip Hop, Reggae and R&B have been the exception to the rule; using their musical platforms to speak out regularly against societal injustices.And it is not only in the Uni...

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Jul
09

Cassava diseases threaten the success of proposed ethanol plant in Uganda

Cassava Tubers

 https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1521143/cassava-diseases-threaten-success-proposed-ethanol-plant 

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Jun
19

Podcast: Anti-racism/Police brutality protest songs which have through the years resonated with downtrodden people in different parts of the world.

A Black Lives Matter protestor in the U.S

In recent weeks, the world has been gripped by racially diverse, anti-racism protests, following the deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks in the U.S. In part one of this podcast, I cast light upon a select few, thought-provoking, and conceptual anti-racism/anti-police brutality and social injustice protest songs, from across the globe, w...

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Jun
18

African and other global music stars who have fallen to COVID-19

Fallen musical legends

They were big musical names whose timeless music brought joy to millions. Sadly, however as COVID-19 continued on its destructive path, it claimed their lives. Fans of African musical genres like Afro Rhumba, Afro-pop, Soukous, Somali, grieved when its foremost venerable musicians such as Manu Dibango [Legendary Cameroonian Saxophonist] Aurlus Mabe...

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Jun
05

Lumaflow

Richard Wetaya performing Lumasaaba HipHop

A sampling of my hip-hop album. Take a listen there maybe something for you

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May
29

Podcast: In part 2 of this podcast, I continue shining a spotlight on the legacies of other music greats who have fallen during these COVID-19 times

renowned Guinean Great Mory Kante

In part 2 of this podcast, I continue shining a spotlight on the legacies of other music greats such as Tony Allen [Afrobeat co-creator], Mory Kanté [renowned Guinean vocalist and Kora player] Ahmed Ismail Hussein [Somali Music icon], Ty [acclaimed British/Nigerian Hip Hop star], Fred the Godson [New York Hip Hop star] Betty Wright [RNB legend], Little Richard [father of Modern Rock N Roll], who have fallen during these COVID-19 times.

 

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