Nairobi, April 22 -- Most Ugandans aged 100 years or less (which is about everybody) despise witchcraft (though some practise it secretly). They despise it because of the evils associated with it, suc... Read More
Nairobi, April 7 -- Information from two unconnected research emerged mid-March in Kampala identifying so much money flying around, being painfully extracted from ageing citizens by the youth. Repeat ... Read More
Nairobi, April 1 -- We hate them and love them in equal measure. The two-wheel taxis that started with a few manual bicycles half a century ago at the Kenya-Uganda border and today employ a couple of ... Read More
Nairobi, March 25 -- The big women of Uganda's energy sector were last week taken by surprise at the questions fired at them by teenage girls of St Mary's school Namagunga located between Kampala and ... Read More
Nairobi, March 18 -- From the day I maliciously bit mum's breast with my emerging milk teeth at six months of age and grinned happily as she winced in pain, as so I was told, I must have committed a m... Read More
Nairobi, March 11 -- For the last 3.5 years of the last century and the first 3.5 years in the new millennium, I sat on a committee that met weekly to plot the growth of the New Vision, Uganda's bigge... Read More
Nairobi, March 4 -- Uganda's "permament"minister of foreign affairs is a straight-talking man. Henry Oryem Okello has held office for two decades -probably the longest-serving unreshuffled minister in... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 26 -- You may have heard the story of the foreigner from a rich country who found a group of our brothers at the coast basking on the sand, enjoying their banter, sipping from freshly cu... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 19 -- So, Ethiopian Airlines, being an enduring international carrier, isn't an accident! As reported on January 30, the Ethiopians had already made their own airplane by 1935, nine deca... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 12 -- Almost three decades ago, when I was the Kampala bureau chief of The EastAfrican, I always had the luxury of working from home on Saturday up to midnight, while my boss in Nairobi ... Read More