My greatest accomplishments are my kids. We homeschooled our kids. This is Sabrina at 6 and at 15. If you have 2 minutes - I’m Proud of the results
My job is to get them ready for life, and I thought the best way to do that was take responsibility for the early years rather than turning them over to teachers & schools that are overwhelmed.
These tourists, a white American couple and their friends, were in Uganda 🇺🇬 on holiday and they are wondering why foreign media are saying there is Ebola in Uganda. "Our trip to Uganda almost got cancelled we persevered and have enjoyed "A trip of a lifetime."
@kigambira
Hello @MTWAUganda@TourismBoardUg@JulzKagwa and all the concerned parties, we can make this new constructed Equator Monument in Kayabwe look more better like the one in Kikorongo, Kasese.
Before it’s officially launched, we can make it better looking.
Thank you🙏🏿 #ExploreUganda
But first:
Happy birthday to my dad! 🥳🥳
… who decided to celebrate his 67th birthday by traveling to Uganda to climb 4 peaks in 6 days in the Rwenzori Mountains.
Living up to the legend of Daddy Cool!
I'm going to say something that might upset some people, but I believe it deeply and the evidence backs it up.
The single most powerful thing Black people anywhere in the world can do to fight racism is to become collectively wealthy.
Not just individually successful, but wealthy as a community.
I watched this happen with other groups. When Japan was poor, Japanese people in America were put in internment camps. When Japan got rich, suddenly everyone wanted a Toyota and Japanese culture became aspirational.
Korean Americans were targets of violence in the early 1990s. Today, after South Korea's economic rise, Korean culture is one of the most admired in the world.
The pattern is so consistent it's almost boring: poverty invites contempt, prosperity commands respect.
So when I hear debates about fighting racism in America, I always think the same thing. Yes, call out injustice when you see it, absolutely. But also build businesses, create wealth, and invest in your children's education like your life depends on it.
Make your community so economically powerful that discrimination becomes expensive for anyone who practices it.
That is how you win the game everyone else already figured out.
My son Zion Wekesa suggested we together run a marathon every week 42kms and yes he today led the run and the stretching like u can see.
He is a fast 100m runner like his other 2 siblings especially my daughter though she is an age where advise isn’t needed so she thinks
KIND REQUEST🙏🏾
Whoever has any video frames of the rugby guy being beaten, kindly share them via the email in my bio or my DMs. I am trying to analyze them frame by frame and maybe try to identify some faces!
Kindly retweet for awareness!
A national rugby player, an alumnus of Namilyango and King’s College Budo, an engineering student & was on his way to drop his sister at school was lynched by boda boda who accused him of stealing a bag. Come on Uganda, we need a Public hearing of this one too #RipSydney
As a father of two young kids, I keep thinking about this from Dara:
"I think we're doing our kids a disservice by giving them too much, being around too much.
You want to love your kids, you want to know that they're absolutely loved and appreciated.
But it's the challenges in life that form you, and it's the overcoming of these challenges that give humans a profound satisfaction.
If you as a parent are overcoming these challenges for your kids, you're actually doing them a disservice long-term, whereas short-term you think you're doing them a favor.
They've got to learn how to make it in this world themselves.
A happy life is not necessarily an easy life."
Uganda has made great strides in the management of Ebola virus and such related complex situations since the days of Dr. Mathew Lukwiya (RIP).
Establishing a center for the management of US Ebola victims is such a great opportunity for the country’s research and management potential.
It is actually a vote of confidence in the health pandemic management systems. I implore Mzee @KagutaMuseveni to accept the opportunity our neighbors are throwing away.
Good.
Let me add the context you have left out.
The death was a Congolese national who’d travelled to Uganda as a health tourist.
Do not lump us with the DRC. It’s misinformation to do so.
The real Ebola problem is in the East of DRC.
Because of reckless narratives, livelihoods are being destroyed in Uganda.
Entire industries are being affected.
Let us speak with epidemiological discipline. Let the record be clean.
👉If there are Ebola deaths in Uganda, state them with source, district, date, and confirmation.
👉If the deaths are in DRC, do not baptise Uganda into another nation’s mortality statistics.
👉If the number is regional, say regional.
👉If the risk is cross-border, say cross-border.
Public health communication must inform without inflaming, warn without wounding, and protect without creating unnecessary panic.
Facts are not decoration. In an outbreak, facts are medicine.
No, we do not accept this. Why are you including contacts under follow-up for Uganda, yet not doing the same for DRC? You have simply thrown that number in there to inflate fear and exaggerate the situation in Uganda.
Uganda has also recorded 2 recoveries. Why are you not reporting them? The Ministry of Health has clearly communicated that there are only 6 active cases. If you are going to report on the situation, then report the full picture, not just the parts that support a particular narrative.
We try to be transparent with you, yet you respond by selectively presenting information that paints an unnecessarily grim picture. Shame on you.