Clive Davis had a golden ear, a brilliant mind, and a good heart. I’ll always be grateful for his kindness through the years. His legacy will live on through all the artists and music he helped bring to the world, which have been the soundtrack to millions of lives.
One year ago today, the hauntingly beautiful Litany of the Saints in Latin as the Sacred College of Cardinals processed to the Sistine Chapel to be locked in Conclave to elect the successor of Saint Peter.
Peter Sematimba is widely regarded as the architect of modern commercial radio in Uganda, transforming it from a rigid state-controlled model into a vibrant, personality-driven industry. Before the late-1990s radio boom, he founded Dungeon Studios in Makindye, a production hub that revolutionized advertising with catchy jingles and boosted local music by blending Western pop with Ugandan sounds.
In 1996, he played a central role in launching CBS FM, proving Luganda-language broadcasting could thrive commercially. He introduced energetic, personality-led programming, co-hosting Bwakedde Mpulira with Gloria Kamba and helping popularize celebrity DJs. Through Semat Production, he mentored broadcasters and professionalized radio talent.
After leaving CBS in 2000, he founded Super FM 88.5, targeting mass audiences and maximizing advertiser reach. Known for his “Agony Uncle” persona, he remained a dominant on-air figure. Sematimba also elevated media branding, presenting radio as a polished, lucrative business that attracted major private investment.
One of the telling things about our society at our functions is how we behave around food:
1. People loading more food on their plates than they can finish, and without feeling ashamed of the heaps on their plates
2. The fact that people have to be served, because they don’t know how to share limited resources
3. When given a chance for self service, people serving themselves without any regard to those behind them that might not get. Five pieces of chicken are left in the dish, and someone serves himself three of them (with 20 people behind him)
4. People eating more than they need, just because there is free food
5. People acting impatient as if they would die if they took 10 more minutes before their turn to serve (okulookalooka/ okululunkana)
6. Serving the second time (double) before others get anything, and pretending not to have eaten at all
7. Packing food to take home when some people present haven’t got
8. Catering service providers hiding food.
While these habits might seem isolated and only related to food, they ALL vividly manifest themselves when we are in charge of any resources that have to be shared. Think about it. Our biggest problems as a country are around GREED, SELFISHNESS, DISHONESTY, and lack of a sense of SHAME
Friends, this young man, Victor Katungi “disappeared” from St Savio & has been missing for days. But, people can't just disappear, someone out there surely knows something, his parents are now in distress.
Kindly share this, there should be someone who saw or heard something.🙏🏾
Pope Leo XIV intoning the Gloria in Latin at the Holy Sacrifice of Mass on Good Shepherd Sunday in St. Peter’s Basilica with the Ordination of 10 men to Sacred Priesthood.