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Reading well written,informative and entertaining posts, wets my appetite to learn and perfect the skill of fact-based and entertaining creative writing for civic activism.

It is the reason I have activated “Ajakait” to creatively do commentary on Uganda’s 2026 presidential, parliamentary and higher local government elections.

Ajakait is the kind of person who when she feels that those who are supposed to provide a service to tax-paying citizens are tossing the citizens about just like that, like that – her go to mode is best described as porcupine prickly. She has her own version of quills that she can instantly erect in defense against those she perceives as predators. She fits in the category of women that the Baganda describe as “akatula ak’ebisse” (meaning she looks smooth and beautiful on the surface, like certain small African eggplants, but within that smooth exterior resides bitter flesh). When her bile erupts from inside out and her quills are erect, she can be quite unpleasant to those she perceives as predators.

I first used “Ajakait” to do commentary on Driving Permit renewal processes in Uganda in 2016.

Read “Ajakait and her Driving Permit saga” to appreciate her beginnings

In Ateso, the language of my people, Iteso, the fourth largest first nation of Uganda, Ajakait is a respectful way of referring to a female (kind of like “madam”). A title in Ateso it is earned I have so far, authored two posts featuring “Ajakait” in my ongoing series of “Diary of an undecided voter on …”:

• Campaign Launch
• Presidential Candidates

I invite you to click on the links above, read and in comment, please share with me tips and advice on how I may learn and perfect the skill of creative writing for civic activism; and in a unique entertaining way of fact-based discourse.

Thank you!