By Aaron Aroriza, Uganda: I was preparing to write about this whole general thing in my country – I mean the general situation we are having with this general letter. But then I happened to espy something on my facebook wall about our current representative in the Big Brother Africa house – Denzel, God bless him. Judging from the comments […]
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By Emmanuel Ssebaggala, Uganda: From as early as I can remember, I knew I didn't fit the pigeonholes. Dad would take me to play football and I hardly could ever wait for it to end. I loved sitting with the girls to talk about fashion and make-up, while the boys played whatever games they preferred. It felt natural for me […]
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By Solomon Manzi, Uganda: The rain fell rhythmically, beating out a musical clatter upon the tin roof. As if in unspoken concordance, the woman's belly rose and fell in slight motions. Slight, yet the child's eyes followed the ebbs intently, like a feline in the dark. Then suddenly, as if in a deliberate attempt to break the rhythm, the woman […]
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By David Tumusiime, Uganda: I had been living a year in Entebbe when I started meeting her in a taxi. We did not talk at first. There was a problem. She was a woman and I was a man. In taxis that does not just happen; random conversations that is. Unless the taxi nearly has an accident (which is rare), […]
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By Robert Ssempande, Uganda: I arrived early at the Entebbe International Airport yesterday, ready to catch my flight to a new land: America. “I am heading home!” I kept telling myself. I had decided to leave for good. The morning was sunny, but under that thick roof of the passenger terminal, I barely noticed the heat. I sat there on […]
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By Edger Kasunsu, Uganda: It's a lesson that has probably taken me too long to learn. I have come to the realisation that ‘it is not good to be too good to people’, it's a disease. That's a lesson I learnt from a person I least expected to learn it from. I had never given it much thought before, but […]
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By Aaron Aroriza, Uganda: I met Helga with a kid a few days ago. Yes – her kid. And no I had no hand in that. She is married…er cohabiting. You see, I was too slow. And she was quite fast. So she moved on. I too moved on, quite slowly, in the opposite direction. But it's such a small […]
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By Kathryn Kazibwe, Uganda: You know that moment when you look back and try to find something of meaning that you have done since you last got a flood of birthday wall-posts? The one that comes after the “IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, YAY ME!” moment? It's happening to me. And it's cranked up like twenty decibels (or are they knots?) higher […]
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By David Tumusiime, Uganda: His smell announced his presence before he got onto our taxi. It was the smell of shoes that had tramped miles in the sun and the rain and the mud. Shoes that had been in such long tramps, the feet sweated through the socks. It was an unforgettable smell every boarding school student knows as “carbon […]
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By Inet Morudu, South Africa: If only shouting “help!” would truly help. My treasure box filled with living jewels is under attack. Last time a dazzling diamond out of five was stolen right before my tear filled eyes. This thief is so cruel. Attacker of my treasure box, have you no shame? To take my only joking ruby in broad […]
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