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@FredShaka @mkainerugaba @BalaamBarugahar @JustineNameere Get rid of all PLU and any one over praising him they are all thieves find competent real Ugandans abroad

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3 days ago

@AsiimweJago Correct

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4 days ago

@SSssebunya The only way to survive is not to eat blood money for the devil doesnt give anything for free

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UgHistory

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5 days ago

19 December 1972. London, England. The Daily Mirror published a single-panel cartoon by Keith Waite. General Idi Amin, grinning in outsized military regalia, boots a flailing British diplomat and two caricatured Asian men over a cliff. They tumble onto a heap of gold watches, cash, and typewriters. Beneath the edge, one word: DEPARTHEID. The Cartoon That Named the Moment - 1972 In that hybrid of "departure" and "apartheid," Waite did not merely coin a pun. He delivered a judgment. Ten years after independence, the last tentacles of British rule were still rooted in Uganda's economy. Asians, mainly of Indian descent, had been brought to East Africa by the British in the early 1900s to build the Uganda Railway. They stayed, becoming the commercial spine of towns and trade routes. By the 1960s, their prosperity was resented by many Black Ugandans who felt shut out of economic power in their own land. The seeds were planted. Amin's theatrical populism harvested them. In August 1972, Amin gave Uganda's 50,000 Asians, most holding British passports, ninety days to leave. The world called it madness. Britain scrambled. The UN hesitated. But inside Africa, where the aftertaste of empire was still bitter, there was a different understanding. Amin's move was not merely racial; it was political, economic, even spiritual. He was ripping out what he saw as the last colonial scaffolding. And in Waite's cartoon, that is exactly what he is doing, with one massive boot, smiling. Yet Waite was no simple cheerleader. The Asian figures are dazed and helpless. The British diplomat, likely High Commissioner Richard Slater, is airborne, powerless. Amin is not menacing but absurd, overblown, triumphant. The pile they fall into is chaotic, symbols of exploitation and greed, but also of lives, memories, and displacement. Waite, a white cartoonist from the very empire that had set this stage, understood that this was no tidy morality play. It was empire unravelling in real time. As South Africa deepened its apartheid and Namibia's future remained chained to Pretoria, Uganda was trying to tear out the colonial legacy by force. Waite's cartoon did not excuse Amin. But it understood him, as a mirror held up to an empire that had never really left. "Departheid" told more truth in a single frame than most editorials dared. It recognised that Uganda's agony was part of a larger African revolt against inequality masked as progress. What does it mean when a cartoonist coins a word that captures both the expulsion of a people and the hypocrisy of the empire that had placed them there? Waite's "DEPARTHEID" was a portrait of an unravelling. Amin kicked. The symbols of old commerce tumbled. The cartoon has long since yellowed in archives, but the word it coined remains: a hybrid of cruelty and consequence, a single panel that understood that the wounds of empire do not heal neatly, and that the struggle to define a nation's identity is often as brutal as the colonial rule it seeks to replace. #ughistory #IdiAmin @GovUganda

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4 days ago

@FrankTumwebazek @MAAIF_Uganda Why is the rate of c@ncer rocketing in uganda?

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5 days ago

@adam_kungu Moral of the story: The devil’s offers always come with a price. If you reject blood money, you can walk away with your conscience intact. But the moment you accept it and start living like you’re one of them, the chains are already on you. By then, you’re cooked done and dusted

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The African History School

@_africanhistory

6 days ago

In 1971 Chancellor Williams published a book to answer 7 questions which his Eurocentric education could not answer. That book was called Destruction of Black Civilization, and these are the questions you won't be able to answer until you read it: (1) How did All-Black Egypt become All-'White" Egypt? (2) What were some of the specific details in the process of so completely blotting out the achievements of the African race from the annals of history- just how could this be done on such a universal scale? (3) How and under what circumstances did Africans, among the very first people to invent writing, lose this art almost completely? (4) Is there a single African race, one African people? (5) If one race or one people, how do you explain the numerous languages, cultural varieties and tribal groupings? (6) Since, as it seemed to me there are far more disunity, self-hatred and mutual antagonisms among Blacks than any other people, is there a historical explanation for this? (7) And how, in puzzling contrast, is the undying love of Blacks for their European and Asian conquerors and enslavers explained?