By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: I guess I have told this side of the story from the middle and haven't really explained how we got here. It has been running through my head, the beginning, the prelude to this pain and all I can think is: did you ever love me? Was this ever real for you or was the whole […]
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By Khuthadzo Malinda, South Africa: The year is coming to an end. I spend a lot of time listening to the radio and the last few days before the year ends, many radio stations are doing a review of what was big in social media. These are the things that they consider to have made a big hoo-hah for nothing […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: It's the conversations in my head that I hate the most. They remind me too much of our fights, where I tried to save something and it was like having a conversation with myself or worse still, with a wall. You certainly nailed how not to have a conversation however urgent it was. I've been evaluating […]
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By Denise Kavuma, Uganda: Aggression is one of those deplorable attributes and one never proudly admits to being violent…unless, of course, one is from an oddly specific Ugandan tribe that's nation-wide famous for exactly that sort of behavior. Sometimes though, you barely have enough time to try and find out which part of the country somebody comes from before s/he […]
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By Emmanuel Adebayo, Nigeria: Sometime ago, a man made a statement that was reiterated to me by a friend, this statement was meant to be funny, but it made me sad. The statement was: “If Nigerians were all moved from Nigeria to America and all Americans were moved down to Nigeria, in a short while, Nigeria would become America and […]
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