Uganda’s Middle class- The ones a with a car and a house or apartment with a wall fence, that frequent bars all week and fill churches on Sunday morning, the middle class that are a pay-check or two away from bankruptcy, have one or two or three degrees on their heads. The ones that speak…
Can Africa achieve Universal Health Coverage? There are mountains to climb when it comes to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Africa – poverty, inadequate infrastructure, lack of political will among others. Yet, technology has proved that Africa can leapfrog into the future. The mobile money innovation, has for instance, made it possible for the…
I grew up in Katuna at the Border of Rwanda and Uganda, the people across the border in Gatuna are family and friends – we do things together. We are only separated by a stream. Growing up, our house parties were never short of Primus and Miitzig – huge bottles of beer from our…
Sexism |ˈsɛksɪz(ə)m| by dictionary definition is prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex. The State Minister of tourism Kiwanda launching the ludicrous Miss Curvy Contest in Uganda said, “We have naturally endowed nice looking women that are amazing to look at. Why don’t we use these people as a strategy…
Screenshot from the Survey on Violence Against Children in Uganda 2018 I run a poll on Twitter, my question was, “were you beaten at school?” Only 92% of the 73 people that responded had been beaten at school for all sorts of reason, they shared their experiences; Evelyn tweeted; In my school, kids were beaten…
When the president mentioned that he and his government were planning to tax social media for too much gossip, we laughed, funny memes made rounds on social media because we thought that this move was simply ridiculous. Who taxes end users of social media in 2018? The Civil society met the finance committee of parliament…
Undeniably, the newly introduced social media tax in Uganda will widen the digital gap. But let me focus on women because the barriers Ugandan women face in accessing and using the internet are still massive. 1 in 9 women in Africa have access to the internet. Only about 37 percent of women surveyed in ten…
In a slum in the heart of Nsambya, a suburb in Kampala, lives 53-year-old Thereza. On the day we visited her, we met her three grandchildren, one was carrying a small raggedy mattress, another a charcoal stove on his head, another child, a bundle of clothes on her head. We asked them where they were…
Before Maombi was displaced from her a village in Rutshuru region, North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), She had a good life, she and her husband had property, were successful farmers until when her family became a target of a ruthless armed militia that was determined to destroy them. Her only…
Twenty-two-year-old Jacque Mweso fled his hometown Bukavu in 2016, he sought refuge at his uncle’s home in Bigo, Bunia only for him to be caught in a tribal clash that displaced and scattered his remaining family. “Earlier this year, tribes were fighting; the Bajegere, Bahema and Balendu started killing each other. On the morning of…
“On a project that I was working on, we had to work with Members of Parliament for their input on a legislation we were drafting. So, we went to parliament, to meet with them. As we were walking towards the room, one MP saw me, walked to me and then he started rubbing my back.…
Who is a child in Africa? I asked. I got various answers ranging from a child is a young human, some said that a child is one that is owned and accepted by the parents, for some even at 20, African parents still consider you a child as long as you live under their roof. In…
