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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