Elijah Ssekisibo

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

The onion is undefeated 😂

[duck @ExtremeBlitz__]

when you check the time in the boring ass lecture and there's still 40 mins left

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The Onion doesn't miss.

[The Don of Vaughan @DonofVaughan]

Champagne has literally been in this spot since yesterday, taking non-stop photos with people 😭

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The Young Liberals showed up in Montréal last night. #LIB2026

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

In 1879, Ugandan healers were performing cesarean sections with a survival rate that stunned European doctors—while much of the "civilized" world still saw the procedure as a death sentence.

British explorer Robert Felkin documented the operation in detail. The surgeon used banana wine as an antiseptic, herbal anesthetics to manage pain, and cauterization with a hot iron to control bleeding. The mother survived. The baby survived. The technique worked.

This wasn't primitive luck. It was sophisticated medical knowledge passed down through generations—refined, systematic, life-saving.

Yet the dominant narrative tells us modern medicine arrived in Africa with colonizers and that before European intervention, the continent had no science, no innovation, no expertise.

But here's the contradiction: if African medical practices were so "backward," why were European observers documenting them with awe? Why were these techniques—rooted in empirical observation and botanical knowledge—producing outcomes that Europe itself struggled to achieve until the late 19th century?

The Buganda Kingdom had what the British Empire didn't: working cesarean sections that saved lives.

So what else were we doing that got erased, ignored, or rebranded as "discovered" by someone else?

Sources:
- Felkin, R. W. (1884). "Notes on Labour in Central Africa." Edinburgh Medical Journal
- Ajayi, J. F. (1965). Christian Missions in Nigeria 1841-1891. Northwestern University Press

Credit: African Echo

[The Charity Guy @roxie_ug]

when this comes to your timeline and you can’t donate, kindly just repost please

[Elijah Ssekisibo @ESsekisibo]

@WhiteHouse He's burning the food

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

QUOTE: "The problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power," --President @KagutaMuseveni after seizing power in 1986.

#MonitorUpdates
#MonitorArchives

[TROUBLE 🇺🇬 @HustleGodfather]

Museveni is not immortal, he too shall die;

Ssegirinya did in 3 months what Museveni has failed to do in 40 years; Rest In Peace Comrade 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[Elijah Ssekisibo @ESsekisibo]

@HumansNoContext Banana

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@MbaziiraYasin13 @MBU Spanish

[MBU @MBU]

Uganda Cranes players vibe to @JChameleone’s song ‘Mama Mia’ after winning against Tanzania on Tuesday

[zainab ali @zainabintali]

Fitness @Parliament_Ug .

After hours of sitting, the Chairperson for Public Accounts Committee Merdard Lubega Ssegona calls for a fitness break.

#HealthLiving

[Elijah Ssekisibo @ESsekisibo]

@FFameica @bigtril The collab we didn't know we needed this is fire 🔥🔥🔥

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@Deji

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@its_shevi Hey man

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@benjamintruths Uncle mo violated the whole country with this one

[Elijah Ssekisibo @ESsekisibo]

@MBU Power brick