There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
-- Plato

“For most of history, the challenge of technology lay in creating and unleashing its power. That has now flipped: the challenge of technology today is about containing its unleashed power, ensuring it continues to serve us and our planet.”

- Mustafa Suleyman, The Coming Wave:

A LéO Africa Network LéO Africa Institute shout out to Allan Manzi featured in this report by Jackson M'vunganyi and expressing our confidence in African film. There is an Oscar in this journey and we can’t wait.

Kenya - Uganda Media Briefing, State House, Nairobi. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Happy big 5-0 Samson Kasumba-Mulun !

Was about time… they didn’t innovate enough. Would always ask customers to leave contacts behind so they can call when a book is in store—which almost always never happened! Online booksellers ate their lunch!

There’s a strange irony to this “revelation”. Ugandans think healthcare services in their country do not work…and that hospitals like Aga Khan Nairobi have become Uganda’s national referral. At the same time, fellow East Africans flock to Uganda to receive treatment in the

Interesting you bring this up Daniel. I was reflecting on Magazine culture in Uganda (for some writing I might do later in the year--)... about 10 years ago we had long debates that would go deep into the night on who between The Economist and Time magazine had the best cover

Worth Reading. Ken Opalo argues for state capacity in response to crisis in the #Sahel ( 'States and regimes are not the same thing' and ' add elections and stir' strategy won't work in -Making lasting peace in the Sahel Kwezi Tabaro open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo/p…

Much better showing this second half. I think a draw would be well deserved.

Interesting takes on the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union at 60 by two of my favorite TEA columnists. While in parts of our East African Community (mostly liberation regimes) Mzee Nyerere enjoys the rarefied company of philosopher kings, in his own TZ his legacy is being questioned…or so it seems!

... Enjoy your weekend

No. Batuku are only resident in Butuku (present-day Ntoroko district). What they share in common is that they are all Bahuma (the Congolese corruption of the word is “Bahema”).

Harnessed well, the Semliki valley can feed the entire East African Community (that is what that witch from Kiburara Asuman Bisiika told me years ago when I approached him for an assignment I was doing on DRC!). Uganda needs to up efforts to reconnect with a neighbor with whom we share a lot in

Some naysayers (wachochezi) who said UR was “out on a wing and a prayer” will have to eat their words…

Uganda Airlines Leases an A320 to Enhance Operational Efficiency ubc.go.ug/2024/05/09/uga… via @Uganda Broadcasting Corporation

Hearing the president talk to traders about imports vs. value-addition one would be mistaken to think Mu7 came to office only 2 years ago. True, the traders have turned Uganda into a supermarket for foreign goods…but what to make of a government whose policies have enabled the

Looks like it’s an impasse between the traders and the president who has asked to meet them again on June 20. Join me on the 933 KFM Hot Seat as I speak to a tax expert, Simon Kaheru, Dr. Ruth Biyinzika Kasolo and KACITA Uganda representative on the traders concerns. Live on air and online!

🎦Video highlights from the #Huduma Fellowship weekend for the Class of 2024.

It was the second meeting of the Class for their first Workshop, building on from the Inaugural seminar in March.

Not to be cynical, but they all start like that… and then end up with nieces and nephews in State House! 😏