Tag: #RolexFestivalUganda
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Food sovereignty versus food security
Uganda, once again, should learn from Cuba on matters agriculture for food. Particularly, so, the importance of advocating for food sovereignty versus simply advocating for food security. One can be food secure albeit not being in control of the production of the food that one consumes (food security). BUT if one is not in control […]
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Uganda ‘rolex festival’ and myth of ‘development’
Uganda is importing significant quantities of wheat, hence the factoids in branding ‘Rolex’ (egg omelette wrapped in chapati) as a Ugandan food. Parke (2016), for example, in a story titled: “Delicious African foods you should try” that was published by CNN, claimed ‘Rolex’ as an “African food” that is prepared by “Ugandan men all over […]