My life is the crown and yours is politics. And I will not trade one prison for another.
I can love you and want you and still not want that life.
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I really understood Henry at that point.
Watch the moment Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye collapses in court during his treason trial.
The 70-year-old, who has been detained since November 2024, collapsed while objecting to state-appointed lawyers representing him.
I was abducted in the bathroom naked, if it wasn’t for me grabbing a nightdress they were ready to take me like that. I reached blind folded, among others they asked me why as a doctor I was working with these ghetto people, when I Insisted, they hit me on the head - Dr Lina Zedriga
In many countries outside Africa, classroom hours are less, but still people learn and develop. Perhaps Uganda is one of the countries where students stay longest in class on a typical school day - especially in boarding schools.
On top of the long class hours, day scholars return home with daily loads of homework. They’re even given more work to carry home for weekends! School books and homework become a nuisance at home! What special output justifies this intensive schooling?
Dear Minister of Education, we really need to do something about this. This kind of schooling destroys brains and wholesome growth of our people. Many grade-obsessed parents can’t speak out, some fearing the blackmail from schools asking them to take their children elsewhere. Classwork is important, but education and life in general are not all about books.
‘Bulungi bwa nsi’ is actually a good initiative, and communities like Baganda already practice it. To work well though, it should be appreciated and owned by the community, not coerced. Once owned, the community will do the implementation themselves - including handling non adherence. Some otherwise good initiatives are killed by trying to shove them down people’s throats. Use sociologists, social workers, social psychologists, and philosophers to advise you on community dynamics and how to work out community cooperation - not just suddenly coming up with random ideas and somehow expecting that you will simply police people into them. And, should those initiatives fail, they might be thought to be impossible and become even harder to ever try again - yet it is basically a conceptualisation and implementation problem. You really need the Arts and Social Sciences more than ever before.
There is what we know that younger people don’t know, and there is what younger people know that we don’t know. But also, in this Information Age, some younger people know much more than their elders. Age in itself is no longer a sufficient gauge of how much one knows. That was for times when life Experience was the primary source of knowledge
UPDATE: Government breaks silence on NMG siege, says Museveni ordered 'security inquiry'. #NTVNews
The government says the June 28 disruption at Nation Media Group stemmed from a security-led inquiry ordered by President Museveni.
ICT Minister Justine Lumumba confirms the UPDF, CID, other security agencies, and experts are involved.
A Palestinian father is mourning his 3-year-old son that was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.
Bahaa Abu al-Ajeen says IDF soldiers fatally shot his son Rayan in the head, while simultaneously wounding Bahaa as well.
(https://t.co/c3ajZtuT8q)
Preposterous and a violation of @EriasLukwago_ constitutional rights , it amounts to torture , inhuman and degrading treatment which should not be tolerated in an open and democratic society
Uganda's Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba says he's now been authorised by his father, President Yoweri Museveni, to shut down @DailyMonitor and @ntvuganda over claims that they have over time mocked the family's 40-year.
He's also threatened to have his political outfit, Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU), forcefully take over as Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP), where his father's political party, National Resistance Movement (NRM), commands the majority.
He has further threatened to arrest current LoP Joel Ssenyonyi and former MP Ssemujju Nganda for criticising his modus operandi when he boasted over the kidnap and torture of former Kampala mayor Erias Lukwago.
Ssemujju and Ssenyonyi said the current political crisis in the country mirrors the dictatorial era of Idi Amin Dada, when state abduction and killing of political opponents, silencing the media, breakdown of institutional governance and independence - especially parliament and judiciary, was the order of the day.