This week, I found myself going back to a book that has sat on my shelf for four years: The Life and Legacy of Lapwony Micheal Ocan as told by family and friends. First published in 2020, the book was put together by Ocan’s eldest son Jimmy Odoki Acellam with the help of co-writer Dennis…
I bought The New Vision newspaper for the first time in many months last week. When was the last time I bought a copy of a newspaper and New Vision in particular? So long that I can hardly remember. More than a year has passed since I bought a personal copy. I was, therefore, not…
May has been a terrible month, not just for Uganda, but East Africa. Off the jump, May announced its entry with a bang and has not let up. Charles Were The month started with the shock assassination of Kenyan legislator Charles Were in the capital Nairobi. Little known outside East Africa’s most vibrant economy, Were…
The return of Donald J. Trump to the White House and US leadership in November 2024 was a bombshell few expected ever to go off. In the last Trump bite at the cherry of US presidency (2017-2021), as president, he had encouraged worldwide skepticism about the Coronavirus pandemic that the World Health Organisation estimates killed…
In November 2024, I wrote a review of Barbara Kimenye’s Kalasanda Revisited. In that review, I said Kalasanda Revisited is one of the best short story collections ever written. Anywhere. You have no idea what you are missing if you have never read Kalasanda Revisited. Kimenye was unusually inspired when she penned these stories in…
I have not read a better book this year than Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People: A cautionary tale of power, greed and lost idealism. Neither are you likely to. Careless People is a scandalous tell-all book about what it was like to work at Facebook for Mark Zuckerberg from 2011 to 2018. The book spills how…
Let me begin off by telling you about what I’m reading. I should have been done with this book by now but I had to slow down and start taking notes. Savour it like I do a Café Javas Black Current cake on Sunday morning after church. There is another reason. I could not speed…
As Uganda’s longtime president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni approaches his 40th year in power, the question of succession is becoming an urgent concern because Museveni will be 81 in September. First son and army commander General Muhoozi Kainerugaba first publicly expressed interest in succeeding his father in May 2022. Muhoozi’s announcement via his X (then Twitter)…
No, I did not stop reading books. I don’t think I could even if I wanted to. There is a lot to read but I wanted to tell you about a special book I stumbled on that I have not in a long time. A dangerous book that can influence your mind, seduce, remind you…
Phew! Have you caught your breath yet? 2025 is threatening to be the shortest 12 months we have ever had in a long time. Nearly every day brings with it an event whose impact will take years to unpack but we have to move on quickly because of what happens next. A quick rundown! Besigye…
