Iga Zinunula

...something there in me deep, something that must have been born there, that no depth of sorrow can drown or any height of happiness erase.SIZ

[Hilda J. Twongyeirwe @twongye]

@femritewriters @AFKampala @GeorgeWKiwanuka @IgaZinunula @JWolayo @lusthepoet @TwasiimaPBigirwa @ashamirriam, @AronOmodo

Evrnt is moderated by Poet and Agriculturalist @IgaZinunula

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@SpireJim Woes!
Wars!

Woi!

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@benmwine @EdwardKazaire And you say, "...simple..."? A choice between madness and dangerousness!! " Which ever option I choose, men are going to... " ...
I'll join you, go for madness.

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@twongye @n_akampurira Bammbii!

Amen.

Jojo, may we do lunch together sometime this week?

Happy Birthday.

Kula. Okulakulane.
Kola. Sanyuka.
Be you.

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@JackeeBatanda Congratulations, Jackee!
There are seasons.
All the best.

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

What is development but the attainment of a certain base for everyone & then the continual improvement of earth, life and human dignity! To say money is the answer or the problem is to miss it completely.

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

I will write this here too.
At the end of 1977, as little boys, my brother and I were accused of washing in the village well. The family faced a burden. At the beginning of 2027, the village will have water from another kind of well, and sustainably. Nakyenyi,Lwengo, eBuddu.

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

Oh!
@benmwine you would have to live in outside countries! Else, the word in mother tongue is, Bambii! Whatever he would be accused of, the feeling is, bless his soul!

[Ben Mwine 🇺🇬 π @benmwine]

When I grow up I want to have this kind of courage!

[Buregyeya Apollo, PhD @ApolloBuregyeya]

When the water remembers its address.
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Dear Moses Ali,

Kampala rain has a special way of exposing rich men who never understood geography. Some people look at a wetland and do not see water, drainage, ecology, or public safety. They see a title deed, a perimeter wall, and a billboard announcing “luxury apartments coming soon.” Then the clouds gather, the water remembers its address, and the whole city is reminded that nature does not respect fraudulent land conversion.

This morning, as I navigate Kampala carefully towards the Science and Law Workshop organized by @Greenwatch_Ug at @MestilHotel, I am reminded that climate justice is not an abstract European conference word. It is engineering, planning, law, economics, and common sense refusing to work in isolation.

The workshop seeks to bridge scientists and lawyers so that scientific evidence can better support environmental and climate litigation. That matters because courts are increasingly shaping infrastructure, mining, urban development, drainage systems, cement production, land use, and industrial policy itself.

But Ali, Africa must approach this discussion intelligently. Climate justice without industrial justice can easily become another elegant way of keeping Africa poor, dependent, and permanently importing everything from cement to technology.

Environmental protection and industrial development should not behave like political enemies. A flooded city destroys productivity. Weak drainage kills businesses. Poor infrastructure traps people in poverty. Informal settlements expand because formal systems fail.

Science must therefore remain contextual. Kampala does not behave like Copenhagen. African cities are carrying rapid urbanization, weak drainage systems, infrastructure deficits, informal economies, and limited public financing. Solutions copied mechanically from Europe without understanding African realities often create new problems while pretending to solve old ones.

This is why Africa must invest in locally grounded innovation: low-carbon materials, volcanic pozzolans, better drainage systems, affordable resilient housing, localized energy transitions, and industrial systems that reduce embodied energy without destroying affordability.

That is why engineers must not remain absent from these conversations. If we vacate the room, infrastructure decisions will increasingly be made by people who understand policy but not concrete, emissions but not construction economics, law but not logistics, or sustainability but not productivity.

For Africa, climate resilience must be understood as a complete systems question. It is not only about carbon. It is about whether a society can build, maintain, adapt, drain, manufacture, recover, and think long term.

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@ApolloBuregyeya You are right, unfortunately. Sadly, because we only seem to be able to push on like gnu across the Mara and the Grumeti when the season comes, when we catch a harvest and become "rich".It is a wetland until the title is yours.Think a septic tank in every single 50x100! Sink it.

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@jptorach you surely can't wait for the first minute of the show in the morning to congratulate @Arsenal! Cheers!

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@twongye Attach a picture, we see!.

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@SpireJim Perhaps the most compact bundle you've ever delivered. Unpacked, it could reach from here to anywhere!

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@twongye We give thanks to The Almighty!

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

I think that Uganda's mandatory VAT Registration threshold is just far too low. A turnover of UGX150M! Really!? And at 18%! The hassle of it! The policing attitude! The client's agony! And then all the other tariffs and barriers! Urgh! We'll remain short, I fear! A looong time.

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@norbertmao @AnitahAmong Noted.
Thank you.

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@norbertmao @AnitahAmong Sir, a passerby will dare to advise a smith on the shaping of (s)words: That 'I' in "civility demanded that.... " would be a sharper edge as "....the in coming speaker.... ".

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Uganda 🇺🇬, 29 January 1986. A haunting image from the inauguration of Yoweri Museveni as President captures a group of child soldiers smoking as they watch the ceremony. Museveni, leader of the National Resistance Army (NRA), had just overthrown Tito Okello Lutwa after a brutal guerrilla war.

This photo, taken by William Campbell, is more than just a snapshot. It’s a stark reminder of the cost of conflict. These children, some as young as 10, had been swept into the NRA’s ranks during the Bush War. Their presence at the swearing-in ceremony symbolized both victory and tragedy.

Museveni’s rise marked a turning point for Uganda. He promised stability and reform, and as of 2026, he remains in power, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders.

📸 The image of child soldiers smoking during the inauguration remains one of the most iconic and sobering visuals from Uganda’s post-war era.

[Iga Zinunula @IgaZinunula]

@benmwine Our definition of modernity/development is in dark grey on a black board. It will get worse before it gets better, indeed.