Isaac Kanagwa

Progressive global citizen committed to new business technologies, ethical enterprise, and faith. Rotarian | CEO @GoldServe_

[Isaac Kanagwa @zac_igk]

Passionate people are real gems, indeed when people love what they do, money tends to be a secondary issue.....

[Ambassador Juju Nsababera @Nsababera_juju]

Long before the visitors discovered the beauty of the Ankole cow, it was already our pride, our heritage, and our story.
A reminder that Uganda's greatest treasure will always be its people, its traditions, and the stories passed from one generation to the next.

[Professor Awesome @rsnokes]

It's hard for me to explain to those outside #Uganda just how irritated the Ugandans are to be lumped in with DRC for the #Ebola epidemic. As of this writing, there have been hundreds of deaths and over 1000 cases in Congo, whereas Uganda has had only 9 cases -- three Congolese, four medical workers who treated them, one driver who drove them, and one other known contact. Only one person has died in Uganda, a Congolese.

So when WHO and Al Jazeera talks about the Ebola epidemic in "Congo and Uganda," it's like saying because there are wildfires in California, you should cancel a trip to the Grand Canyon because some Californians lit a campfire there. Yes, it is possible it *could* spread and you have to be vigilant, but these two situations are nowhere near the same magnitude.

As of this writing, the only Ugandan death has been the tourism industry.

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

Bwana @IAmSteveHarvey uganda is the real deal.

367 mammal species, 20 primate species, 2 planting seasons which means 2 rain seasons.

165 lakes in such a small country, 11% of world bird species, best weather in the world( annual average 28 degrees centigrade)

Many tropical rainforests which host those primates.

Source to the longest river The Nile found in Uganda and comes out of the worlds largest tropical lake, Lake Victoria

Great cultures bwana

KARIBU UGANDA

[Alan Kasujja @kasujja]

As we talk now, we don’t have Ebola in the country. Even the Congolese patient we have been treating has tested negative.

@DianaAtwine - PS Ministry of Health #Uganda

[Alan Kasujja @kasujja]

This is #Uganda’s truth about #Ebola

A Congolese national continues to undergo treatment after testing positive.

She was linked to the first case of a Congolese man who’d travelled to the country for treatment, died and was confirmed to have had the virus.

His body was sent back to the DRC.

Health workers and others who interacted with the two cases were traced and are now in isolation- being monitored.

None of them has so far tested positive for Ebola.

There are no local infections.

Meaning, no Ugandan or person living in Uganda has Ebola.

That’s our truth.

[Uganda Airlines @UG_Airlines]

Today, we officially welcomed the first of two newly leased aircraft into the Uganda Airlines fleet with a wet-leased Boeing 737-800 operated in partnership with Ethiopian Airlines. ✈️🇺🇬

This addition strengthens our operations and enhances flexibility as we continue to deliver greater connectivity across our network.

#FlyUgandaAirlines

[Dangote Group @DangoteGroup]

Africa should not depend on distant refineries for what it consumes daily.
That model is fragile.
Local capacity is the shift.
#SupplyChains #LocalCapacity #DangoteRefinery

[Toby @TomolaGroup]

Dangote Fertiliser just raised $750 million from international investors through a 5-year Eurobond priced at 7.75%. Bank of America and JP Morgan arranged the deal.

To put that in context, Nigeria’s own government issued a Eurobond in November 2025 at 8.75% and 9.5%. A private company from Nigeria just borrowed cheaper than the federal government. On its first ever bond issuance.

That tells you everything about how much international investors trust this business. Cement. Refinery. Crude oil production. Fertiliser. And now tapping global capital markets at rates governments can’t match.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h at 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with a Tempo Mach 2 appears.

The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus and greets the pilot of the passenger plane by radio: "Airbus, boring flight isn’t it? Now have a look here!"

He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, and then swoops down almost to sea level in a breathtaking dive. He loops back next to the Airbus and asks: "Well, how was that?"

The Airbus pilot answers: "Very impressive, but watch this!"

The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly straight, at the same speed. After 15 minutes, the Airbus pilot radios, "Well, how was that?

Confused, the jet pilot asks, "What did you do?"

The AirBus pilot laughs and says: "I got up, stretched my legs, walked to the back of the aircraft to use the washroom, then got a cup of coffee and a chocolate fudge pastry."

The moral of the story is: When you’re young, speed and adrenaline seems to be great. But as you get older and wiser, you learn that comfort and peace are more important.

This is called S.O.S.: Slower, Older and Smarter.

Dedicated to all my senior friends ~ it’s time to slow down and enjoy the rest of the trip.

Author Unknown

[Victor Glover @AstroVicGlover]

Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!

[Africa Today Media Group @africatodayMG]

Dangote Refinery has started exporting fuel across Africa after reaching full production capacity.

Countries like Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Togo, and Ghana are already receiving supply.

Next in line are South Africa and Kenya.

Africa is now supplying itself instead of depending fully on imports.

[Felix Kitaka @TheMutambuze]

The top is lonely if you don’t carry friends along with you.

Friends you shared memories with are precious. That’s why you ought to fight to preserve those relationships.

True, some people are impossible and you can’t go with them.

But if you arrive without any friends, then probably you were the impossible friend that others left behind.

Be blessed.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

NASA has released the first full image of Earth in 54 years.

The photo was taken from the Orion spacecraft, which is currently traveling to the Moon.

The last time Earth was photographed in its entirety from deep space was in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission. Since then, such images have been created by stitching together multiple shots taken from Earth’s orbit.

[Eng Robert G Bwanga @BwangaEng]

@TheMutaD @MoWT_Uganda Look at what has happened to Addis the last two years. Here we can’t even repair 1km of tarmac on Northern Bypass. Why can’t the contractor work day and night on such a critical road? There’s only one grader on site.

[Government of Uganda @GovUganda]

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 (𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔):

Uganda has adequate fuel reserves to meet short-term demand:
Petrol: 81 million litres (22 days cover)

Diesel: 80 million litres (23 days cover)
Jet A-1: 18.5 million litres (30 days cover)
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒍 2026. #OpenGovUg

[Isaac Kanagwa @zac_igk]

Excellent design

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

A surgical center in rural Uganda runs entirely off-grid.
Solar power. Teak screens, woven Nile reed ceilings, clay tiles made by local potters.
This is what African architecture looks like when planned with intention.
📍 Kyabirwa Surgical Center, Uganda
Design: George K. George

[Nabuuma Shamim @NKaliisa]

We can speak about AI and hold conferences about it, but if we as Africa don’t take the practical lane, nothing will ever change. We will remain consumers not producers.

[Emeka Ajene ✍🏽 @eajene]

How did a company from Shenzhen come to dominate Africa's cell phone industry?

It accepts African markets as they are, not as it wishes they were.

While some companies enter African markets with capital intensive Silicon Valley-style 'blitzscaling' approaches, China's Transsion entered the continent with a 'deep-plowing' strategy

What's 'deep plowing'?

An intensive, long-term approach of cultivating land to grow crops.

For Transsion, 'deep plowing' means starting from the bottom up with the most underserved customers, building extensive distribution networks, localizing products significantly, and investing in consumer trust to cultivate long-term market dominance:

• Customer 'deep plowing' — While competitors focused on premium urban consumers, Transsion targeted lower-income and underserved users, especially those in rural & peri-urban areas.

• Distribution 'deep plowing' — Transsion embeds itself in the informal retail networks that dominate electronic sales on the continent, employing thousands of agents to reach places competitors don't and establishing physical retail depth from factory to final sale.

• Product 'deep plowing' — Transsion went beyond superficial adaptation, spent years studying local needs & behaviors, and modified hardware and software accordingly, including pioneering multi-SIM phones in African markets.

• Service 'deep plowing' — One of Transsion's deepest 'plows' is its investment in after-sales service. While many electronics have no official repair centers locally, Transsion established the Carlcare network, Africa's largest mobile after-sales service network.

• Brand 'deep plowing' — Transsion created a brand ladder to cover the entire income spectrum: ultra-budget itel devices, performance-focused Infinixes, and aspirational Techno phones. This allows the company to capture customers as their incomes grow, instead of losing them to competitors.

Transsion didn't win Africa's cell phone market by building for the Africa of tomorrow.

They won by 'deep plowing' for the Africa that exists today.

h/t @lumiao1026 whose research on Transsion informs this post — check out the links below 👇🏽

[Edwin H. Dande @ehdande]

Random View… Irene Ndibo’s story, a US educated Wallstreet banker, should be a serious cautionary tale to highly successful diaspora considering returning home to “build the nation” entrepreneurially…

…just don’t leave everything and return, but if you must be very careful, it could be a mistake that you cannot recover from and that’s what hit Irene.

1. Business and career is primarily networks and connections; yes talent and capabilities matter but it’s very secondary.

2. There is another layer where locally educated and careered roadrunners scoff at your foreign degrees and experience. You will hear a lot of “this is not US. This is not NY”

3. You will sometimes find yourself in rooms debating with powerful yet functional illiterates in matters you have studied and practiced in the best markets on earth as Irene had studied and practiced at Goldman Sachs. In these moments the phrase “third world” comes vividly alive.

4. A point comes where returnees social, career connections and immigration status abroad has expired, yet things in Kenya are just not working at all - there and then the steady descent begins

5. Deep regrets begin to set in for having signed on to Project Kenya; worse, as one descends they are also watching corrupt incompetents soar as they steadily descend.

6. From Manhattan apartments, taking subways to work with a Starbucks in hand, six figure salaries, you start asking for financial help. People assist but then predictably compassion fatigue sets in and you are left alone.

6. Challenges and stress evolve into mental illness, which itself has limited interventions in Kenya, highly stigmatized and highly unaffordable. Chances of pulling back from here is very very low.

7. Family, friends alumni, and loved ones have their own issues, you are left alone never to be heard of.

My Point Is: Returning is for either the connected few or for the hard-headed few, if you are not just stay in New York or wherever, please.

This is not Singapore where Lee Kwan Yew searched for its best and brightest in universities and cities around the world to go back and build Singapore.

A sad story, may she RIP.

[Denis Duke Woniala🇺🇬 @DenisDukeUG]

Business Or Entrepreneurship Is Not For Everyone