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[Dr Hilary Okello @DrHilaryOkello]

My take on Journalists covering NRM 🟡 Vs NUP 🔴

#UgandaMustLaugh

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Chameleone needs our sympathy and understanding, not just harshness. But he also needs to be helped to deal with himself. That’s only if he wishes to be helped. Ultimately, it is his life and his family. Being a celebrity, unfortunately everyone has an opinion about how he should live, and he faces tougher scrutiny than others. Even other alcoholics that are not available for their families are out here castigating him - their own messy lives won’t be discussed of course.

It is also out of love, I understand. Many people love Chameleone (or his music) so much that it pains them seeing him on a self-destructive path. They don’t want to imagine a Uganda without him. They don’t want to add his name to the list of other musicians that we’ve lost to preventable things. Sometimes we love a person too much that we become intrusive and overbearing. We become too nosy about their lives. We police them. We invade their privacy and abuse their freedom.

My sympathy for Chameleone is here. First, he is a victim of his early fame. Maybe he wasn’t that young, emerging in his 20s. But, even by his own confession, he never anticipated the fame that Mama Mia suddenly brought him. I have tasted a little bit of fame to know what it can do to a person who finds himself in it. Fans lift and place you up high on a pedestal, and literary adore you. Up there, they all watch you keenly. Out of love and admiration, they assign you a god-like stature, and judge you by it. Your human mistakes are not judged the same way they judge other ‘ordinary people’. You are a star.

Before you know it, you start struggling to fit into the god-like character society has assigned you. You live an illusional plastic life. You are alienated from the everyday joy of being a normal human being. You can’t walk around freely, you can’t shop freely, you can’t hang out freely, you can’t cry, you can’t show financial need, you can’t this … you can’t that … Your innocent fans overwhelm you. A small statement you make in jest turns out as a serious headline! The news people (now everyone) and ‘competitors’ that gain visibility by talking about you (to your multitudes of fans) are always looking out for news about you - especially the sensational or bad. Propaganda is always rife around you.

Meanwhile, for a super musician like Chameleone, there is also pressure for new music - pressure to keep on top. He is constantly compared with every other person that emerges - in talent and wealth. It is the kind of pressure that one can’t humanly stand. One’s personality and upbringing will certainly contribute to how they handle the trials of fame. But many ultimately get caught up in unfortunate coping mechanisms. The abuse of drugs and alcoholism among musicians is not just a culture. Many are trying to cope with the burden of fame. In public, they will show this facade of being happy, yet they are privately fighting ghosts and looking for distractions from their miseries.

You may recall the story of Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Radio, Maddoxx… the list is very long. Certainly famous people are hard to help, especially when fame intoxicates their egos and clouds their judgement. But Chameleone needs empathy. There might be many victims to his flaws, many feet he has stepped on, and many he has wounded. But he is a miserable victim too. A victim who may not even understand his victimhood, or have the capacity to free himself. His son is right, but there is need for more nuance.

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

More videos showing the state of Zombo road and the suffering of the users …

[kulture @kultureugcoffee]

Did you know its called a French Press? Coffee for beginners, must have.

[the coffee guy @Glen_Aine]

Umoja standard has my gratitude for this beautiful article. Let’s build the coffee culture together guys 👏🏿 your country needs you @kultureugcoffee

[OMAKA @Stanlee_maka]

@kingFahad_17 The fact there are more adults than children is a serious concern 😂😂

[TOKO @GodwinTOKO]

Sadly, @Faizafabz, @beewol and others have been REMANDED until 30 July!

The State Attorney simply disappeared into thin air and won’t return! She is called BAINE EUNICE attached to Nakawa Court. If she is YOUR mother, tell her she is an embarrassment to HUMANITY!

#StopAbuseofPowerUG

[Mimi Hearts💞 @MimiHearts1]

In case someone gets arrested, call 0763565154. The National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders Uganda @NCHRD_UG has dispatched lawyers to different police stations to provide legal assistance.

Pass it on!
#March2Parliament

[the coffee guy @Glen_Aine]

#EndCorruption
#March2Parliament
#freepeacefulugandans
For God and my Country

[the coffee guy @Glen_Aine]

At Buganda Road Court we need people with national IDs to get out people

[the coffee guy @Glen_Aine]

I want to be like Ssenyonyi when i grow up🙂

[the coffee guy @Glen_Aine]

Did you know Uganda is known for having some of the best coffees in the world oba you just know corruption😂

[iAm Uncle Mo @mkiboneka]

Please Please Please!

[OMAKA @Stanlee_maka]

@jacquesrwoth @kajik5566 @KankwezaRukira @GovUganda @SpireJim @YouthZeu @PNyamutoro @UgandaMediaCent @leedafts @nbstv @KerAlurKingdom That's if u manage to make it passed that jukiya road 🙌

[Azawi @AzawiOfficial]

Not so long ago i went to perform in ZOMBO district and what i saw there was heartbreaking, mwana nga embeera ya bantu mbi nyo. We pay crazy taxes but it hurts that it can’t even benefit our most vulnerable people okujjako ABAKAMUZI !! So why pay taxes?? I mean why??

[Every Movie Plug @everymovieplug]

Best speech in the entire MCU

[King Neptune 🔱 @hard_guy_]

We only saw Ozai fight once and on God he was worth the hype!

[Bankole @banqist]

Onana returning from AFCON.

[Odds Arena @BettingHoudini]

1. You're so stupid if you think changing the government is going to change your financial status.
2. You're so stupid if you think Uganda is a monarchy that after the father, the son will reign.
3. You're so stupid if you think a politician shouldn't enjoy their salary and work incentives just because they're opposition.
4. You're so stupid if you think a politician's family should also be part of his/her politics.
5. You're so stupid if you think politician shouldn't have a life outside politics.
6. You're so stupid if you think planting banana stems in potholes will force the government work on them.
7. You're so stupid if you think someone who can't make a proper speech can become president.
8. You're so stupid if you bring your stupidity here and comment stupid.

[Israel The Creator @israel_obasola]

Prophet work no easy like that.