Mugerwa Jonah

God sent.
Attracted to common sense. Free Speech Warrior 🪖. BSc. (ARU), MSc. (MUK)

CONSTRUCTION👷🏾‍♀️ ll COMMERCIAL FARMING👨🏾‍🌾

[Mugerwa Jonah @YONA_MENGO]

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[Mugerwa Jonah @YONA_MENGO]

@kigmha @Shemei_I_am @Stefano_nyingi Either Shemei is uninformed or he is on a deliberate mission to misinform uninformed baganda.
Pretty sad.

[Kakwenza Rukirabashaija @KakwenzaRukira]

These days, problems are no longer solved but performed for the wider nincompoopic public and I partly blame the abandonment of literature and the reading culture. People who might once have spent an evening wrestling with Tolstoy, Achebe, Shakespeare, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Okot Bitek or a serious newspaper now spend innumerable hours scrolling through smartphones, accumulating intellectual garbage from anybody unfortunate enough to possess both an empty head and an open mouth.

A husband and wife hit a rough patch and, instead of sitting across a table, consulting elders, seeking counselling or submitting the matter to whatever faith they profess, somebody reaches for the smartphone and within minutes, a private grievance has acquired an audience, screenshots, commentators, amateur psychologists and complete strangers shouting, “Leave him!” or “Leave her!” from bedrooms where their own relationships are undergoing structural adjustment. A quarrel that might have required two adults and a conversation suddenly has three hundred thousand spectators and a hashtag.

Royals have joined the circus and family fractures have become serialised emotional brouhaha, with each faction throwing buckets of mud into the rumpus for the entertainment of an audience that neither loves them nor possesses the slightest capacity to repair the clan. Politicians are worse. Two politicians disagree over principle and, instead of defending their positions intellectually, one immediately reports to Social Media to convene a pity party. Argument becomes victimhood because the algorithm rewards the wound more generously than the principle. Apparently, being offended is now evidence.

How did we arrive at a culture in which emotional self-government became optional? An adult who cannot govern his own feelings should hesitate before volunteering to govern anything else. If every disturbance in your inner weather immediately requires a press conference, you are not communicating. You are issuing meteorological bulletins from an unstable climate. Emotion is information, it tells you that something has happened inside you. It is not a presidential directive ordering your mouth to broadcast immediately.

We should teach children self-mastery again. The Stoics understood something our smartphones have almost successfully assassinated, ie, feeling something does not create an obligation to announce it. Anger need not become a social media post. Hurt need not become an interview. Disappointment does not require a podcast. Silence is not always weakness. Sometimes it is evidence that the brain has successfully restrained the mouth until both can agree on a sensible communiqué.

Fail to teach that discipline and we manufacture rumourmongers, professional victims and quarrelsome performers instead of adults capable of enduring discomfort, reasoning through disagreement, making decisions and fighting for principle when fighting actually matters. A person governed entirely by emotion eventually mistakes mood for morality. Today he loves you and you are magnificent. Tomorrow he is angry and suddenly you have apparently been Satan since childhood.

The objective is rarely resolution. It is recruitment. They want the audience to inherit their anger, adopt their interpretation and begin hating the other party on their behalf. Perhaps the most endangered adult skill of our age is knowing that you can be hurt, furious, disappointed and even correct, yet still shut up long enough to think.

Rukirabachwezi

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

The International Court of Justice calls on Israel to return the occupied territories, including Jerusalem, and compensate the Palestinians.

[PAU_Uganda @PAU_Uganda]

🧠 PEARL SWEET: MYTH vs FACT

Separating petroleum facts from fiction.
Uganda has named its crude oil blend Pearl Sweet. But what does “Sweet” actually mean? 🤔

🛢️ MYTH:
“Sweet crude” is called sweet because of how it tastes. 😄

🧪 FACT:
In the petroleum industry, “sweet” refers to crude oil with relatively low sulphur content.
And that matters commercially.

Crude with lower sulphur content is generally easier and less costly to refine, making its quality attractive to a range of refiners in the international market. In other words, “Sweet” is not just part of the name — it highlights a commercially important characteristic of Uganda’s crude.
🇺🇬 So, why Pearl Sweet?

Pearl reflects Uganda’s identity as the Pearl of Africa, while Sweet reflects the crude’s low sulphur content.

The name therefore brings together Uganda’s identity and the qualities of its crude, giving our oil a distinctive identity as it enters the global market.

🌍 Pearl Sweet: Born of the Pearl, ready for the world.

👉 Follow PAU as we separate petroleum facts from fiction — one myth at a time.

#PearlSweet #UGOilJourney #CreatingLastingValue #PAUAt10

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Nobody's asking you to prove you're African. But it says something that Mona Lisa prints, Nordic rooms, and Western religious art in an African home raise zero eyebrows, while African decor in an African home gets called 'forced.'

More of what that could actually look like, below

[Mugerwa Jonah @YONA_MENGO]

@JPeterTwesigye @ntvuganda God handed us the will to do good and bad. Don't forget that fact.

[Mugerwa Jonah @YONA_MENGO]

@tonvionny @emeka_ug You don't know what you're talking about

[Africa Uncensored @AfUncensored]

In 2018, photojournalist James Akena was attacked by military officers while on assignment in Kampala, effectively ending his career with Reuters.

Today, the former international photojournalist works as a bartender after severe physical trauma and institutional neglect forced him out of the profession.

Watch #BurnOut now on YouTube.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Timidity has no place in the realm of power; you will often benefit, however, by being able to feign it.

[Lawrence Kitema @lawrencekitema]

I hope you never overlook the sacrifices people make for you. Nothing in this world comes truly free; everything you receive has cost someone something—whether their time, effort, or a piece of their heart. The least you can do is show gratitude.

[Samwise Gamgee @Sambannz]

Uganda Railways stolen materials worth Ugx 12,390,000,000 was found at Tembo Steels factory.

So, Uganda railways took Tembo Steels to court.
But, the 2 settled the matter out of court and Tembo Steels paid only Ugx 520,000,000

[Lawrence Kitema @lawrencekitema]

In some places, you lead; in others, you support, and in others, you follow. Knowing this will save you from envy, bad thoughts, and misplaced hatred.

[Mukula @mukulaa]

President William Ruto, my brother and good friend SIR, the emerging signs of xenophobia against fellow East Africans in parts of urban Kenya are deeply concerning and inconsistent with the spirit of a modern, democratic and integrated East Africa.

The EAC framework is founded on the progressive free movement of people, goods, services and capital. Where individuals are found to be in violation of national immigration or other laws, enforcement should be orderly, lawful, humane and free from collective punishment or hostility towards any nationality.

I urge the East African Community leadership to engage Kenya, Burundi and other Partner States urgently to address these concerns through dialogue and established regional mechanisms.

At the same time, Burundi faces serious economic pressures that are pushing some of its citizens to seek opportunities elsewhere. I appeal to the Government of Burundi to intensify measures addressing these economic hardships.

Our region must choose cooperation over xenophobia, lawful enforcement over mob action, and economic integration over division. East Africans should never become strangers to one another in East Africa.

@KagutaMuseveni
@WilliamsRuto
@GeneralNeva
@SuluhuSamia
@PaulKagame
@FelixUdps
@PresidentKiir
@citizentvkenya
@NBSTVUpdates
@NationAfrica

[goma @soigomaa]

Let me get this straight... OpenAl was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. "To benefit humanity." Then he raised billions of dollars. Then he closed the source code. Then he converted to for-profit. Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone. Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models. Now he's on stage saying you'll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter. He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he's going to bill you to use it... Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they're not even hiding it anymore...

[Government of Uganda @GovUganda]

You tried the buses FREE OF CHARGE over the past few weeks… now it’s time to make them your regular ride

Travel conveniently, safely and in the comfort you deserve. No squeezing, no unnecessary drama, just sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.

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Get your MTN MoMo ready
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Make your payment and you’re good to go

Safe travels and happy weekend, Uganda. @KiiraMotors @ebusxpress @mtnmomoug

[Angelo Izama @Opiaiya]

Dear @rigathi I see what you have done here but you need an education on the genesis of this policy. It was no other than Jomo Kenyata who led negotiations with the British government on reduction of Asian influence on the East African economies. He was joined by Apollo Milton Obote. These efforts were rebuffed. It led to a coup by Idi Amin of course, but Amin ( a confidant of Obote) retained the policy and brutally enforced repatriation of Asians, which you cite, over British objections. There were geopolitical implications in part due to the complexity of the post World War situation and the cold war that followed.
This is not the same environment Kenya is in today ( I may be corrected) and Idi Amin has been since retrospectively absolved, by some quarters, despite the knockon consequences of this policy.
There are other ways to highlight Kenya's political economy without reaching out to an under-understood Ugandan/East African trope such as was Gen Idi Amin in his era. Thank you.

[David Lambert @Winter_Six]

This is why you should ignore Twitter and read actual books.

Every sizeable human civilization engaged in slavery. Including African civilizations. Slavery was as normal as prostitution. It mostly happened to people who lost wars. It was very profitable.

That's the truth.

[African Union @_AfricanUnion]

Congratulations to the delegation of #Togo 🇹🇬 and the Africa Group on the adoption this morning by the #UNGA of resolution A/80/L.104, “Correct the Map.”

First endorsed by the African Union Assembly in February and officially passed at the United Nations today, this @_AfricanUnion initiative marks a historic step toward accurate and equitable global cartographic representation.

For centuries, the Mercator projection distorted global geography, shrinking Africa to the size of Greenland when our continent is actually 14 times larger. Today’s resolution promotes equal-area maps like Equal Earth across classrooms, media, and international institutions ensuring the world map finally reflects Africa’s true scale, weight, and place in the world.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

UN votes to adopt new world map showing Africa's true size https://t.co/XAykyjb9y1

[Mugerwa Jonah @YONA_MENGO]

@WabiRaja @UncleBillz He could get himself a wife once income is steady.