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“We got Abokalam and he agreed to know the boy. We are now looking for transport to collect our son!”

Yes, The Humanist View is delighted to have contributed towards reuniting a young man with his long lost military father. A young man who found and read our blog posts on Karamoja and reached out to us for help. Read more in:

“Literacy reunited a boy with his long lost military father.”

Powerful qualitative feedback that confirms that The Humanist View is being read.

Top Posts

Over the last five years, the best performing post, in terms of total views, was “People of Africa – The Mongo of Central Africa,” consecutively featuring among top five posts for 2024, 2023 and 2022.

Annual top posts for the last five years on The Humanist View were:

• 2024 – Tips for writing and giving the ’employer’s speech’ at marriage ceremonies. Read it here.
• 2023 – Hilda Baigana and George Barenzi are mourning daughter Georgette. Read it here.
• 2022 – The Teso biking grandma. Read it here.
• 2021 – Tragic saga of late lawyer Kasango send off. Read it here.
• 2020 – Papa Owaraga’s burial – Aipuduno. Read it here.

As it is to be expected, the annual top posts on The Humanist View, in terms of views, were all human interest stories; and on milestones of human life – marriage ceremony; funeral rites and ceremonies; and longevity.

Views and Visitors

Quantitatively, 2024 was a good year for The Humanist View, with increased reach in terms of views and visitors.

17,023 views in 2024; an increase of 29 percent as compared to the previous year. Overall, over a five year period ended 31st December 2024, The Humanist View received 61,164 views, of which 28 percent were in 2024.

12,913 visitors in 2024; an increase of 30 percent as compared to the previous year. Overall, over a five year period ended 31st December 2024, The Humanist View received 45,784 visitors, of which 30 percent were in 2024.

Top Countries

The top three countries from which The Humanist View receives views and visitors remained Uganda, United States, and United Kingdom, in that order.

Of note is the entry of India as fourth top country from which The Humanist View receives views and visitors.

Three countries – France, Germany and Netherlands – that in the past five years featured in the top five countries from which The Humanist View received views and visitors, did not make it to the 2024 top five countries. Food for thought, going forward.

Top Referrers

Over the last five years, two referrers have consistently made it among the annual top five referrers of The Humanist View; and they are: Google.com search engine and X (formerly Twitter). This was the case also in 2024.

Of note and concern is how Facebook dropped from being the top most, 80 percent referrer, in 2020 to number four referrer in 2024, contributing only six percent of the referrals.

A valid explanation of the huge reduction in referrals to The Humanist View from Facebook is the continuing ban of Facebook by President Museveni’s National Resistance Movement administration. Learn more in “Uganda’s president bans Facebook for being ‘arrogant’.”

The Humanist View indeed identifies with small businesses in Uganda that are experiencing the crippling effects of the Facebook ban in Uganda. We add our voice to the plea that the ban is lifted. Learn more in “Lift Facebook ban – Uganda entrepreneurs ask government.”

Ending on a positive note, we celebrate the marked increase of referrals from the WordPress.com Reader, from less than two hundred in 2020 to over a thousand in 2024. Explanation likely being The Humanist View now more frequently writes blogs in response to the WordPress daily writing prompt.

To more positive impact blogging in 2025!