If you hadn't already noticed, Kampala is teeming with young and middle-aged singles who are on the verge of developing philophobia (the fear of falling in love or being in love). Many of these single people are already unintentional philophobes; disillusioned with love as a result of painful prior encounters or the love-hardship stories of their f...
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.
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/
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/
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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...
