So you are back home for the festive season
This time of the year sees a lot of people return home after spending quite a while abroad. Making the transition from that country to here, several high-profile studies say, is usually daunting. Thing is, when you were away, you longed for home. The picture of home you had in mind was a bit played-up […]
For you who has just returned
The world comes home this time of year. For you who’s just returned from abroad, you find that a lot has changed. Your friends have gotten married. Isaac, who couldn’t say two words without cursing, now goes entire days without getting creative with expletives. Musisi has shaken up the city. Your little brother’s voice has […]
Let us create another eclipse
Last Sunday, a solar eclipse was viewable in parts of the country. You’d need heavy feet not to have been swept-up by all the hype that followed it. Talk of the eclipse crept stealthily into this country at the beginning of the year and asked if it could take a seat. “No!” we said. “The […]
The curse of carrying “big notes”
You wave down the boda boda speeding past you. Then, you ask to use the services the cyclist offers to make his daily bread. He initially speeds past you as though in a hurry to go get stuck in traffic jam somewhere. He pauses and seems to rethink. Being stuck in traffic is not very […]
That extra baggage in job contract
The unemployment rate in this country is what donor funds are to an unmonitored politician -bad. The joblessness has driven most graduates this columnist has spoken to, when asked what they’d like to do, to say ‘anything’. There are several manuals out there on how to ace your next interview. There are equally as many […]
A nation in waiting
This columnist has lived in this dusty Pearl for many, many years. So many, he has seen the Union Jack lowered and the Uganda Flag raised for the first time amidst overwhelming joy. The feeling that, “This is it. This is what our parents and grandparents died for. This is what Benedicto Kiwanuka and all […]
Skype session with Sejusa
A few months ago, General Sejusa, the national army’s representative in Parliament, said that there were plans to impose President Museveni’s son, Brig. Muhoozi Kainerugaba as the next head of state. Tempers flared, big words were thrown around, tables were turned searching for him until he made his location known; London. Not Alaska, just London. […]
Life is grim but hope is still alive
This column is generally about the sunny side of things. The new spin to old things. The “we could also look at it this way” side. The one that makes you hold the newspaper closer, squint and re-read the sentence, all the while wondering whether there isn’t a law against keyboards bringing to life such […]
Advice on graduating to university
Dear reader-who’s-going-to-join-university-very-soon, it is time to rejoice. Out with the shackles of wearing a school uniform to class; in with going to class in a durag, heavy jeans, an oversized T-shirt and beat-down flip-flops. A resounding boo to attempting to meet all your body’s nutritional requirements by eating posho and beans, hooray to the miracle […]
For Facebook and my country
In a recent report released by Facebook showing governments that had requested for user account information of some of its citizens in the first six months of this year, we were named. Our very own government of Uganda, the one we know and love, this one here, it made it into the report. We don’t […]