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I will be joining The World Around Young Climate Prize, Cycle 03, and seeing the work we started at BetterLife International recognised in this way feels special.
I founded @BetterLife_Int at 19, and today we are operating across Africa, working with refugee, displaced and host communities to strengthen food security, climate-smart agriculture and sustainable livelihoods.
I’m especially honoured to be mentored by Prof. Henk Ovink, Professor of Watercycle Diplomacy & Design at Delft University of Technology, Executive Director of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, and former Ambassador to the UN and co-host of the UN 2023 Water Conference.
A big thank you to @TheWrldAround and the Young Climate Prize for believing in young people and giving our work room to grow.
The Countries We Call Ours, And Uber Nationalist Musazi’s Pregnant Answer to Uganda and Africa
Uganda’s great nationalist I.K. Musazi, founder of the Uganda African Farmers Union in 1947 and the Uganda National Congress in 1952, with the country still in the grip of colonial rule, offered a plain but powerful answer to the vexed question of who owns Uganda: "Uganda belongs to Ugandans.”
More than 70 years later, albeit in a post-colonial but neo-colonial context, Musazi’s words feel as urgent and as fresh as they did in the mid-20th century.
The question of who owns a country is not always easy to answer. Much depends on one’s economic class, religion, culture, region, ethnicity, ideological outlook and even one’s Pan-Africanism persuasion, because in the latter case the answer can determine which foreign figures are celebrated at home, whose histories are taught, and whom a nation chooses to honour in its statues.
Nor is this a question only for Ugandans. All Africans must confront it. How they answer may be the leading determinant of whether they build peaceful, economically successful, and democratic societies, or continue to murder and torment themselves in the struggle to possess them.
Kenyans, for their part, like to say: “Kenya has its owners” (Kenye ina wenyewe). Interestingly, they usually say this not to affirm the country’s ownership, but to suggest that it has been captured by people who have no legitimate claim to it. Makes you wonder whether we should all be “Kenyan” in their wonderful tongue-in-cheek cynicism.
-In photo/A younger and older IK Musazi.
@flygodT "Come outside im your muthafucking grass, you still in school? Im in your muthafucking class"
And then same song mind you
"I been lurking for so long ran out of gas, i saw him at the store but i aint had my mask"
You know how dedicated you gotta be to run outta fucking gas????
lenin defalarca karamsarlığa düştü ve devrimi hiç göremeyeceğini düşündü. avrupada sürgündeyken günlerce evden çıkmıyor ve bisikletle tek başına gezerek depresyondan kurtulmaya çalışıyordu.
For under $500k (Less than UGX 2Bn) you can get a used functional DMU of about 150 seats, but your uncles & aunties would rather 3 Mpenkonis for visiting that upcountry farm that is merely a status symbol.
Happy 88th birthday Dad. Your many years of dedicated public service inspire many of us. May God continue protecting you as we prepare to celebrate your 100 years soon.