Kalundi Serumaga
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Born-again Pagan. Banned broadcaster. Proud Mission School reject. Fighting the 2nd Scramble for Africa. Restoring Native Thought for Africa and all Humanity.
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A few good people have been telling to put my writing in one place. So, I will be digging up, and uploading all the old things I can find, plus new things, and things never published, on to Patreon.
Please have a look:
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@TansuYegen
Basically: a space into which food, transport and energy come from a central control, and that can be opened up or locked down, and even locked off, to varying degrees, using advanced technology. In other words: a citadel for social apartheid at best, or a prison, at worst.
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You just know that you have been in power for way too long, when you find yourself fighting an opponent younger than your own children. How undignified. Free
@HEBobiwine
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@gathara
.."a nation whose politics is dominated by European settlers, sometimes in conflict with one another...."
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@derJamesJackson
“… the bourgeoisie as a class are not only in the control of the means of production but are in control of the means and instruments of suppression of the opposing classes. These instruments of suppression are called the state.”
- Dani W. Nabudere (1982)
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@gathara
.."....and always in conflict with the other races, for whom the legacy of the violent establishment of the European dominated state has been a situation of dispossession and exploitation, that European settler-dominated politics is incapable of resolving. Hence the instability."
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"You’re a history book I never could write,
Poetry in paralysis, too deep to recite.
Dress yourself, bless yourself, you’ve won the fight,
We’re gonna celebrate the night."
(Faithful Departed, Christy Moore)
Robert Serumaga 6th January 1939-15th September 1980
Never forgotten
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"My name is Kalundi Serumaga, and I endorse this tweet."🤣🤣
Media freedom day SHOULD be incomplete without us raising the condition of this Journalist, Robert Kalundi Serumaga (still speaking, and is still banned)
Former MD, National Theatre
Former host, Spectrum show, Radio One
Historian, public intellectual, activist
@ACME_Uganda
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“To understand Africa, one must understand Europe, just as to understand the poor, one has to understand how the rich got rich in the first place.” Prof Yash Tandon (Trade is War)
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Remembering the one assassinated 40 years ago today, and saluting those wazzocks who have suddenly remembered that today is also the birthday for the other one. That kind of katemba always made him laugh, so thanks for sending him a reason to. RIP Robert Serumaga. (1939-1980).
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@Winnie_Byanyima
That "boys don't kneel" generalisation right there is the reason Uganda needs federation: so that Republicans with power don't use it to transpose their cultural anxieties on to people not like them. Boys in Buganda and Busoga do kneel. Let each culture decide on its own future.
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@NadaAndersen
It is standard practice for settlers to demand that native life be re-organised, if not erased, so as to make things more comfortable for themselves. And to become quite hostile when they feel they are being questioned on this. You are walking a well-worn path.
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Hon Kyagulanyi, now in Washington DC will, together with his international attorney, Robert Amsterdam, hold a press conference tomorrow at 10.00am EST in the Bloomberg Room at the National Press Club.
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So, let me get it straight: CMI, a Ugandan military unit part-founded by Rwanda-born Paul Kagame while Ugandan, arrests a Ugandan-born Rwandan suspected of working for Rwandan Kagame-founded DMI, where Kagame is president. Is this the pan Africanism we have been hearing about?
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@nickopiyo
@AndrewMwenda
...and therefore perhaps if he stopped speaking altogether, on any subject, and kept completely quiet, then he would definitely become the country's leading thinker? Tempting idea.
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@Raycheal43
"In my interaction with hyenas, I have found that, deep down, they really do care about the lives of Antelopes. They just find themselves trapped in an unending desire to also eat them. But that should not be taken to mean that they do not care."
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African history is hugely politicised, with past events seemingly weighing more heavily on the present than elsewhere. Our challenge therefore, is to learn to use history as our guide, as opposed to allowing it to become our jailer.
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@RasnaWarah
@bonifacemwangi
@shaunking
He is a missionary.
@PoliceUg
say they have arrested him (in the nicest possible way, it seems). Despite him being violent during the arrest, he does not seem to have any injuries. Uganda was created through violence in Jesus' name, so nothing new here.
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@SpireJim
You slow down the wear and tear on your shoes, thus saving money on how often you have to replace them, thus reducing the stress caused by brokeness. So you protect your health, because stress is not good for your health.
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Very well said
@Kalinaki
. Needs to be amplified. Hussein Kyanjo is man of honour and unshakeable principle. We need to focus politics more on emulating (and supporting) him and his kind, than expending energy mocking those who went another way.
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@Mukulaa
So why were you trying to get American support to stand against him, when you went to see the US Ambassador here in 2008? Or is that the moment you discovered that already he works for them? Here is the WikiLeaks record (in case you really have forgotten).
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Before this day ends (over here at least), I would like to just thank everyone who has been kind enough to keep following me on here through last year, and to wish you all the very best for 2024.
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I never really like to talk about such things (since I am not an exams person, and also: children's privacy), but I had 3 daughters sitting exams (A Level, O Level & PLE). All passed very well. All down to their Sengas, & their mother, frankly. But I'm going to brag on it anyway!
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Now that we are definitely in the New Year (given what 2020 did, I wanted to be sure 1st Jan was not a trick), I wish all readers and followers the best for 2021. Congratulations on persevering, thank you for all acts of kindness, and sympathy for all losses. Don't look back.
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"Well-known Ugandan journalist
@CanaryMugume
flees to neighbouring country. Manages to take only favourite microphone with him. Fate of prized tape measure unknown."
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By the time a person is putting Winnie Mandela and Malcolm X, on the one hand, in the same basket as Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Barrack Obama on the other, they are showing a “reading” culture lacking direction, context and sound grounding.
Sounds more like colliding with books.
QUOTE: "There's beauty in reading because there's something you'll discover that you didn't learn in class. For instance, I have never [physically] met most of the people who inspire me in life like Winnie Mandela, Malcom X, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Barack Obama etc...You can never…
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@JenifaOchwo
@BaketungaNaome
That's what I thought too: it's clear and to the point. I can't see the problem, beyond maybe a personal preference for something more ornamental. I think many Ugandans enjoy having any kind of power over others, a little too much. A legacy of pre-1972 Asian employment culture?
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Honoured to have met Prof. Asmarom Legesse, Harvard Emeritus Professor, during
@OromoStudies
first ever conference on home soil after 32 years of existence. Expelled from Makerere University in '52 for leading a strike alongside Abu Mayanja &
@cobbo3
(I think that's who he said).
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@rggoobi
@GovUganda
You are basically outlining work Coffee Marketing Board would have evolved to do, had it not been disappeared by your government. You are now caught between big local producers who thought they would usurp its work vs a local mafia. And Western capital is also "on the way coming"
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@ChrisObore1
He said the Seattle demonstrators were just Baganda (untrue).
He said their "leader" used the Presidential jet (untrue).
He implied there haven't been such demos against other NRM-ers abroad before so the Speaker was ethnically targeted (untrue).
These are attacks on Baganda.
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So, I order a rolex, and it comes wrapped in a sheet of Bach's music. This is a very classy neighbourhood.
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"Large tracts of land will be suitable for foreign-financed mechanised farming, once we have completed the pseudo-legal processes of physically seizing the land from its native owners who will be banished to city slums and Middle Eastern slavery." There, I fixed it for you.
Nearly 35% of Uganda's land area is arable land, much higher than the regional average.Large tracts of land are suitable for mechanised farming of e.g oil seeds especially with now developed value chains in sunflower & Soya, Uganda is ideal investment destination for edible oils.
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@ztsamudzi
Very scary.
"Any notion of 'progress' or 'modernisation' that does not start from a peoples' culture is tantamount to genocide."
Dani Wadada Nabudere (1932-2011)
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This is why criticizing
@EriasLukwago
for the state of the city is at best naive, and at worst intellectually dishonest (and why then doing Jennifer Musisi nostalgia is simplistic thinking).
Everyone should listen to the statement very carefully.
@EveZalwango
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Met this young man at the shops.
(Asked his permission to photograph him.)
He says he is a designer and designed those jeans himself.
Was not the world’s most talkative person.
Then he left.
A lot creativity among our young people.
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@NicOdhiambo
@waweru
@iamkathambi
We could also examine it as an output of how imposed landlessness makes people unable to grow their own foods, hence forgetting them. Kenya is the only non-southern African country to have had a real white settler invasion. So maybe the similar eating habits are no coincidence.
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"When the president of one of the poorest countries on earth, who was born poor and has been a public servant all his working life, is listed as one of world’s wealthiest individuals alive, but is unable to point to a machine that he invented or a best-selling book he wrote...."
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Wishing all who read this, who follow me on here, and their loved ones nothing but the best for the coming Year. I hope it will peaceful, and productive. And sincere apologies to anyone I may have offended in the course of 2019's many exchanges.
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The permanent condition of the comprador: trapped. In reality and in language. Burdened with a "courage" useful only for fighting rival Africans, and evicting peasants. When "Massa" orders, the comprador gets tongue-tied, puzzling those followers they had previously bamboozled.
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@dfkm1970
"Any notion of 'Development' that does not take into account a people's culture, is tantamount to genocide."
-Nabudere
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone"
-Joni Mitchell
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Basically, to run an Opposition campaign here, one must first be sure to have a very large compound in which the inevitable EU delegation may park their SUVs and their good selves when they come to visit you after you have been cheated.
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Yes he would. Someone called Manemero, whom Mayombo sneeringly dismissed to me on air as a "peasant from Rubayaaaaa" was reportedly beaten to death in CMI while Mayombo was running it. In his presence. In his office. We have been like this for a long time.
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@TheMutaD
@OlindPaul
The first and most fundamental error you are all making here is to think of agriculture as an “industry”; it is a component of organized human life without which such life is not possible. That is why rich countries “subsidize” theirs. We cannot all eat tour guides. We need food.
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Culture is the State in intangible form. That is why peoples with truly strong cultures can exist even when denied, or without, a physical state.
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"And while those
Who have fallen into things
Throw themselves into soft beds
The hip-bones of the voters
Grow ever more painful
Sleeping on the same earth floors
They slept on before uhuru!"
-Song of Lawino
Okot p'Bitek 7 June 1931 – 20 July 1982
(A man from Acholi)
Patient is transported to hospital in Gulu where the speaker comes from. The speaker used air ambulance at a cost of $500,000 to be flown to Seattle USA for treatment
@JacobOulanyah
@Parliament_Ug
@MinofHealthUG
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"...and while those
that have fallen into things
throw themselves into soft beds,
the hip-bones of the voters
grow ever more painful
sleeping on the same earth floor
on which they slept before uhuru!"
Song of Lawino
Okot p'Bitek
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@RugyendoQuotes
@mm1124
There is no "animosity between Buganda and Acholi". There is, however, a clique of (largely former UPC) North elites for whom the T&Cs of accessing
@NRMOnline
-controlled state perks is to front attacks on resource-rich natives everywhere, including Karamoja and ordinary Acholi.
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What I am finding puzzling is how the media I see keeps saying that earthquakes hit Ayiti/Haiti, instead saying they hit the island called Hispaniola, where Haiti occupies the western part. But the Dominican Republic takes the eastern two thirds. Do the quakes stop at the border?
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@LillianBususu
@NathanNgumi
Frankly, I think you might have missed the opportunity of hiring someone that knows how to keep themselves busy even when they are jobless. A job offer is not an act of kindness, but an attempt to put the right person in the right place, and the right place for the right person.
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Honouring one of my mothers, Marie Kiconco Kirindi, who passed away yesterday. May her soul rest in peace.
@sejudav
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Found after a decade of looking, having lost my own copy after watching it played on
@UNCC16
stage in the early 2000s. Sophocles' ANTIGONE rendered in luganda.
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@AAgather
@MKSerumaga
@AgoraCFR
@sulakakaire1
@I_Rugambwa
@deuce_mercy
@Sambannz
@Samwyri
@GodwinTOKO
@OtafiireH
@karamagi_andrew
@YusufSerunkuma
@SpireJim
@mwineedgar
The NRM’s deliberate destruction of the cooperative-based agricultural economy and local banking system made smallholder agriculture nearly futile. Youth were unwilling to take it over from their parents, so farmland became real estate for those with the (stolen?) cash to buy it.
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@ChineseEmb_Uga
@UgandaMediaCent
@OfwonoOpondo
@newvisionwire
@DailyMonitor
@observerug
@ubctvuganda
@nbstv
@ntvuganda
@The_EastAfrican
@DWatchCentre
Just because something (in this case a contract clause) is "standard" for you, does not make it right. Your are simply raising your own point of view to the level of a pseudo-principle to be imposed on everyone. Just like the West does. These are the seeds of imperial thinking.
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@KhemeticChurch
@KevinAn108108
@africaupdates
@Amen_Baba_
@rubbzah
@SageOfNephthys
@suede_santoro
@Queen_herai
@OurOwnGarden
@9WorldChronicle
The malevolence towards the African race is long-standing, runs deep and is executed form high places.
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@comradephylis
@LogKa11
"Russia, which is a longstanding victim of Western aggression, has the right to be concerned by NATO's acts of expansion up to its border. The Russians are not secure with NATO at their border. A buffer zone must be maintained which means creating Ukraine neutrality."
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The 18 reasons given to justify the 1971 (Amin) Coup:
• Detention without trial
•Continuation of the state of emergency
• Lack of freedom to air political views
• Attacks by armed robbers
• The proposals for a National Service
• Widespread corruption in high places......
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After which he was deployed to our region, and created "Uganda", through a "Treaty" called The 1900 "Agreement". It is amazing what lies one will tell (even to oneself) about others in order to justify robbing them. This sums up the essential anti-Africanness of our states here.
Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927) 1st commissioner general of Nyasaland Protectorate writes his views on the negroes of British Central Africa.
His book “British Central Africa” (1897) remains inaccessible in Malawi.
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Daphne Margaret Sybil Désirée Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth CMG, OBE, FRSA (1 September 1921 – 24 March 2010), was a British spy between 1943-1993. As a "diplomat: in Congo (1959-1961), she was was key to organising the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. By her own admission.
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@NadaAndersen
You are saying that existing in this African language equals ignorance and backwardness. Such patronising anti-African racism, such as you display here, is not a legitimate opinion for debating. Your referencing the more confused parts of Europe is a clever attempt at a cover-up.
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@TimKalyegira
Even when you want to talk about somewhere else, your Baganda fixation drags you back to still talking about them. You could have told this story based on its own value. This is how Ugandan public discourse has remained stunted due to the arrested development of Cohen's children.
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@YusufSerunkuma
Robert Kalundi Serumaga (1939-1980) is our father, and today is the 43rd Anniversary of his death. Long may he be remembered.
I am Kalundi Robert Serumaga.
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😅 "Comrade Mummy"..... that is just perfect.
This morning Comrade Mummy
@MKSerumaga
was unveiled as the Head of Policy for the
#PeoplePower
movement, and I am SO proud!
Congratulations to her & all other new members of the Secretariat. Uganda will surely be free!
✊🏾🇺🇬♥️
#PeoplePower
#FreeUganda
#Telikuzikiza
#Mission2021
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Best wishes for the New Year to all who have been kind enough to follow me here. May all your obstacles shrink before you.
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@SpireJim
After the Lubiri attack, Obote's men set a huge area of the Munyoyo papyrus' (where Sudhir now fights the lake) alight, hunting Kabaka Mutesa. A main actor in the operation was that same Walugembe, who then grabbed the Kabaka Boat Races beach. This quote is white Amin-fetishism.
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@RebeccaKadagaUG
Yep. And there were more. But the real reason was that many Baganda back then were not willing to send their actual children to the Christians, and sent adoptees, household servants' children etc, instead. The entire Martyrs' saga is not what a whole lot of people think it is.
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@FGoloobaMutebi
The real concern with all the (and there are many) videos of Chinese dudes getting physical in Africa, should be our disappointment that none of them has ever busted out some slick Kung Fu moves.
Just disorganized grappling like the rest of us.
So we also want our money back.
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"Very unfortunately, many people view History merely as an examinable subject. They study History, but treat it as little more than an advanced memory test focused on events, dates and personalities."
Owek. Daudi Mpanga
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@newvisionwire
@BBatwooki
He is not "Ugandan-born". And he himself calls himself British (which he is). He was born, raised, educated and trained as an actor over there. Ugandan media should focus of helping build Ugandan talent (eg. help rescue
@UNCC16
), and stop tying itself on the success of others.
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@SpireJim
…. and then we will charge your new neighbors to connect their houses via your pole that you paid us for, but not share that money with you.
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@suede_santoro
@deyeskeyra
@honeydelasoul
@CreoleRoyalty1
@rachie11125
@Kellie_Pryor
@WhatThatJessDo
@nzingharahni7
@AyaBaniti
@SheritaTDouglas
@jaychristine_50
There was race of people know as Sabine (or Sabini in Latin) that lived in those parts before Rome (and later Italy) was formed. There is also is a "tribe" now found in the Uganda-Kenya Elgon region known as Sabiny. Could be them.
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@NadaAndersen
You are not a muganda. Your "us" was kamanyiiro. Find somewhere else to "unbackwardise", and leave people to be what you found them as. If that makes you uncomfortable, then go back where you came from. Baganda have been saying this since the Arabs came. But you all keep coming.
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@TimKalyegira
Absolutely! The sight of an off-duty Chief Justice defending the misuse of public funds by using lies to attack an entire indigenous nation for actions taken by a political party they do not own, will always make sense here as long it is a republican attacking Buganda. Go for it.
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Today members of the Ugandan UK community will demonstrate at 2.00pm BST atthe Ugandan High Commission and then go to 10 Downing Street where they're cleared to present a statement and petition bearing 35,000 signatures to the UK PM, calling on President Museveni to step down.
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If you have not already, find a moment to check out the Egypt trade expo at Sharing Hall, Nsambya.
Really interesting products.
Some good bargains.
Very friendly vendors.
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We need to be collecting and keeping items like this.
They will be remembered as a cultural commentary on the times we are now in.
Have not tried it myself.
I am willing to share.
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@AynRandSucks
@historyinmoment
By the time that war came round, Churchill's country had exiled one of my great-parents, and forcibly removed another to a remote part of the country, where he was forced to remain until he died. And that's just on my mother's side. And that's nothing, compared to other families.
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“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and thought.” But for states and corporations, “the whole purpose of language is to mask intent.” Arundhati Roys.
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@rwomchechen
And whose “gang” smashed you and your supporters when you tried to build on your (very impressive, by the way) record in the CA, and become MP for Rujumbura? Did they not instead “hunt you down” by later throwing you the bone of becoming RDC for Pader district? You lost your way.
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This says everything about everything.
MP Aidah Nantaba and a mother to a deceased Ugandan migrant worker receive USD 3400 from the speaker of parliament to repatriate the body from Saudi Arabia.
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@nickopiyo
@KakwenzaRukira
An award-laden Human Rights lawyer defending a member of a dictatorship as she:
1. Attacks the principle of Freedom of Assembly,
2. Tries to suppress citizen concerns about the state of our healthcare
3. Defends of the squandering of public funds.
4. Goes "ethnic".
Life.
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Church of Uganda (formerly the Native Anglican Church, but actually the Church of England in Uganda), used to be the single largest landowner, with most of that being in Buganda. I wonder if it still is, and what it is thinking about it, going forward.
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@PutinDirect
“Europe is about to throw its manufacturing base, the quality of life of its people, and socioeconomic stability into the sanctions furnace...”
-Vladimir Putin
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....."baptised with their hands bound, you could add". Mwanga even flinched to try and avoid the priestly water being thrown at him.
That is a lie Pastor. Mwanga and Kabalega were forcefully baptized as captives as Busabala. I have authorities to that effect.
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As Lenin, Nabudere, and others pointed out: capitalism never changed its core characteristics; it simply changed their location, to the more vulnerable parts of the world, and found local enforcers calling themselves "Excellencies" to keep the operation moving.
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Someone has given away Kitagata Hot Springs too? Who are these Hungarian "investors"?
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@odongaotto
First, calculate how much
@GovUganda
owes
@BugandaOfficial
in rent arrears alone (we can leave out the other demands for now). Then, show us anything similar owed to the dead Speaker against which the $500k dollar flight (and other coming expenses) can be offset. We can wait.
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@cobbo3
The Italians sabotaged it before sending it back. That is the explanation we shall work with.
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@ScottishCommie
@Nkanyiso_ngqulu
......which they (the UK) invented as a new separate territory from the rest of Ireland, then recognized on the spot, and pledged to defend. Very ironic.
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@CHRISBARYOMUNS1
It’s good you addressed this to “friends”, ‘cos the rest of the population, whom you feed what you would not eat yourself, and have no ministerial-airlifting ways to dodge the death-traps you call public hospitals upcountry really do not give a rat’s arse about how you are doing.
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@NadaAndersen
A person does not have to be white to be a Settler. I said you were not a muganda. Your whiteness is really not as significant to the discussion as you might like.
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