Category: Social Commentary
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Languages of first nations of Uganda should be among official languages of Uganda
On Kiswahili as an official language of Uganda, I am not game. I would much rather that the languages of the 10 largest first nations of Uganda are taught in school and are included as official languages of Uganda, with provision for translation services for the other 45 languages of the first nations of Uganda.…
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Why is Tusker welcoming visitors to Gulu City?
“Why is it that Tusker is the one that is welcoming visitors to Gulu City?” That is the question to which some of the leaders attending the Northern Uganda Accountability Conference in Gulu City on Thursday, 30th June 2022, demanded answered. I am not quite sure that the answers that were given satisfied those offended.…
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Africa’s problem is quality of citizen participation in national debates
Remember when President Museveni and many other leaders authored, in the name of the African Union, a communiqué to ‘world leaders’ that please do not intervene in Libya the way you want to intervene. The ‘world leaders’ just ignored them, went ahead and bombarded Libya. Fixating on red herrings, such as term limits, for example,…
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Promote domestic tourism for self-education on indigenous knowledge
On this 26th day of January 2022, the NRM Liberation Day remembrance, my thoughts are dominated by what liberation actually means to us in our day to day lives in Uganda. I am especially concerned by the way in which we “modernise” or more accurately “global-westernise” by losing a lot of our good food and…
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Household food planning is needed to stop food scarcity in Uganda
The problem of food insecurity in Uganda is more about food distribution than the actual lack of food. To allege that Ugandans prefer feeding their kids on food supplements is to tell us that Ugandans have majority elite. What does a food supplement mean to a poor woman living in Loro in Oyam District in…
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