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  • People online that I have never met

    I think that increasingly I spend more time with people that I have never physically met. People from around the world who contribute to online discourse in a way that keeps me interested and engaged for hours. Like this past couple of days, from a cultural anthropological perspective, I am entranced with chatter generated by…

  • “Life is like a box of chocolates …”

    In the logic of the line from the movie “Forest Gump”: “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” In my childhood, I remember when the only chocolate bars we knew off and dreamed of were Cadbury Chocolates. It is all we had on the market. And even then…

  • On fibroids I speak out against medical misogyny

    ON FIBROIDS, I comment as one who had to go through surgery to remove a fibroid and who suffered the devastating effects of being afflicted with one that colonized my uterus for years. Under the fabulous care of Dr. David Ndawula, a Ugandan medical doctor specialized as a GP – General Practitioner. Thereafter, the surgical…

  • Books that have had a huge impact on my life

    Three books are on my mind. For decades, I have read them over and over again; and each time it benefits me a self-liberation. Okot pBitek’s Song of Lawino, a poem set in Uganda in the 1960s and remains relevant today as Uganda grapples with the interaction of legacies of colonialism and knowledge systems of its…