Instead of worrying that humanities degrees don’t prepare students for jobs in today’s world [product managers finance consultants startups], we should worry that we’ve created a world with such little value for literature, art, philosophy—anything that expresses the human soul
One blames the other for wanting “to make Ugandans slaves of the whites” whilst his own previous tweet is of him asking masses to “take a deep breath and forgive Andrew” because he is the queen’s son. Identity politics we are witnessing here ladies and gentlemen.
Sometimes, you hear someone say something, and you just know that they will be picked up, as long as they are in the country. When you live under a regime long enough, you acquire an intuitive sense of its red line.
There are some things Mr. Kyagulanyi said on the campaign trail for which I instantly knew he would be picked up. They restrained themselves from picking him up before the elections because they needed the legitimacy that came with his full participation in the election exercise. But, as soon as the elections got out of the way, they had to look for him . Perhaps he, too, intuitively realised that he had crossed the red line (or hit below the belt) and decided to flee before they arrived.
Now, there are some people who say that it's cowardly to be mindful of the red line. They argue that we are free people and should say whatever we want. But most of those people usually post such advice from abroad!
Here in Uganda, when you pick a fight, you should bear in mind that you will most probably fight alone. Those of us who have ever engaged "public interest battles" know this. And if you know that the adversary is such that you can't win when you fight alone, avoiding him is not cowardice but wisdom. The English say that discretion is the better part of valour.
I don't stop any of you from engaging in whichever battles you like. But as for me and my house, we will be mindful of the regime's red lines. I have fought enough battles for this country to know the sort of country it is.