This journalist who was beaten by Ugandan state agents, believes they were the Special Forces Command soldiers he saw emerge from the State House compound earlier that day.

Always look forward to the witty headlines and captions 😅

Tariff Canada: Smart! Tariff Mexico: Super smart! Smaller tariffs on China: Super-duper smart! Pause Canadian & Mexican tariffs: Smarter! Tariffs back on Canada: Smartest! Tariffs back on Mexico: Smartester! Pause Mexican but not Canadian tariffs: Smartest-er-est! Pause Canadian tariffs: F**g smart!

Lord's truth

All Protocol Observed. Welcome to Issue 192 of The Continent. Botswana prepared for drought. Then it flooded. Climate chaos is the new normal. Get your copy here: bit.ly/TheContinent...

ha ha ha

it is official, the USA now prefers dictators, and is no longer a leader of the 'free world', which is probably no more.

Hear, hear 💪🏿

' ...they mostly live in wetlands... But the high demand for food is pushing farmers to cultivate in wetlands, leaving crested cranes with diminishing areas to call home'. www.bbc.com/news/article...

will just leave this here...

When America was 'Great' “The thought of black women as scientists, mathematicians and engineers was outside the frame of reference – and acceptance – of what society thought Black women could or should be.” www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Dayum! www.instagram.com/reel/DEkaC25...

8 long years... #RestInPeace

'An immigrant from apartheid South Africa is pulling the strings of Trump’s puppet Presidency... but the graveyard watch is on to see how long this bromance between the two will last – the conman and the man who would play God' medium.com/@kalungi.kab...

'Undeterred and unimpressed with the school’s hallowed reputation and history, Mr Uyiwroth went about doing his best in very trying circumstances... the school’s past was not going to save it. A practical approach was needed, and that is what the headmaster did' medium.com/@kalungi.kab...

lol

“I was going to call it Muskotrumpovia, because I think Musk is a more important person, but Trumpomuskovia had a nicer ring to it…And also, I wanted Muskovia because I wanted the idea of Russia to be there in the background”.

so Ethiopia once ruled over Saudi Arabia? interesting stuff... www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Highly recommend I’m doing a big rethink of my relationship w social media We shall see where that lands

Happy New Year from Kampala

Fall of Syria could be a major blow to Russia’s strategy in Africa.

Getty Images' team of award-winning photographers covered more than 50,000 sports events in 2024, including Euro 2024 and the Paris Olympics and Paralympics. 24 of the best sports photos of 2024... www.bbc.com/sport/articl...

lol, from the archives... kalungikabuye.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-...

This prestigious program provides a serene environment for African creatives, scholars, and thought leaders to focus on their writing or creative projects while engaging with the thought-provoking theme of Global Blackness. careeroppotunities.com/jiaswriting-...

#NewFiction I’m grateful to Transition magazine for publishing my short fiction, “An Impossible Case” — the story of a Ugandan grandma refusal to break despite frustrations from our healthcare system. Congrats to the writers featured in this issue. transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/an-impossibl...

On this day 1843, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is first published. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”

Indeed…

spot on, Snoopy

'... while historians were studiously chronicling the frequency and texture of royal men’s bowel movements, the most basic details of women’s lives are lost to time.' longreads.com/2018/12/11/q...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky 20/20

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To the incarcerated Roaming the thin walls of overcrowded Prisons. Rotating through Courts of injustice. Freedom is postponed like a meeting. Your plea for candor and veracity is denied. Relationships are delayed. Children, orphaned. #HumanRightsDay2024 #HumanRights #Humanity #freedom

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky 17/20

The Kampala Writes Literature Festival 2024 is up and running at Onomo Hotel #Klawrites

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Christoph Huber's alleged to have found significant business opportunities in the 1990s war that killed 6-million Congolese. @opensecretssa.bsky.social tracked him down to the Western Cape, where he lives in million-rand homes. Now the South African government has granted him citizenship.

Kampala's first major literature festival is happening this weekend

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky 12/20

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