Dr. Crispus Walter Kiyonga could have been president. The medical doctor is a towering figure in the Movement of President Yoweri Museveni. He was responsible for supervising Uganda’s successful response to the Ebola crisis in 2000, the same year a religious fire claimed
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Drug dealers in Uganda’s capital city are the Uber generation. Attentive to the mood and movement of society they offer their services to fit the city’s hopes and nightmares. There is cocaine for the mid-level bank manager who wants a high to keep plugging away at her job – trying to keep rivals at bay.
One of the theories now “dismissed” in explaining the relationship between the
Garbage truck drivers and their crews may appear the least likely to
One of Uganda’s most famous literary minds is the poet Okot P’Bitek. A nationalist, pan-Africanist and avid lover of song, word and
Excuse the long sentences. One of the final acts of the organisation that sustained the era of Emperor Haile Selassie was its
All the dancing on the graves of dictators being so fashionable nowadays has conjured up a merry scene of a gathering in
“brilliant polemicist” in reference not to Christopher Hitchens, who is dead now, but to another man of letters, Uganda’s own, Professor Mahmood
Before he put his seal on the Bukenya papers, Rafael Baku (his name in Madi means literally “not a human being” or
Perhaps the great grand daughter of the fabled anti-colonialist and violently insurgent King Cwa Kabalega, would not have anticipated a year ago
It has been an incredibly busy few weeks. I have traded Kampala’s grey (it’s been a record 6 months of rain in
Pssssst Our future will probably be determined by politicians but it would be wise to worry about what effect their politics would
Today, Tullow put out an interim statement saying amongst others that ” In Uganda, despite further delays, final approval from the Government is
Our last correspondence on this blog, was about the Tullow farm down being just hours away from conclusion. That was at the