2018-06-25 05:50
NTV’s Sudhir Byaruhanga went undercover in a mining area, which is under a 24-hour surveillance to lift the lid off the murky gold trade in Mubende district Read More
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2018-06-16 15:11
I am 39 years old and I only recently started driving, which even in a country like Uganda is a pretty late start.You will notice say I only recently started driving and not that I recently… Read More
2017-06-06 13:29
2017-05-22 14:10
2017-04-17 08:54
Recently, Equatorial Guinea officially moved its capital from Malabo, a city on an island some distance off that country's continental territory, to a purpose built city deep in the interior… Read More
2016-11-16 16:23
I follow international news quite a lot and, as a result, I tend to have opinions on a wide range of international events and goings-on.Many times I follow international news events with a c… Read More
2016-08-09 16:43
The Ugandan media landscape is changing fast and, as a result, traditional print and digital media are being forced to rethink the methods of work that have kept them relevant to their audie… Read More
2016-03-17 09:52
I recently decided to start teaching myself Swahili, which is the most widely spoken language in East Africa.I wanted to learn Swahili (or Kiswahili as it is called in Swahili) because I hav… Read More
2016-03-17 08:01
English has become an international language to the extent that it now has many different varieties of which the most well known are the British and American varieties.However, because Engli… Read More
2016-02-12 08:42
2015-12-23 15:19
Recently a colleague asked me what my hometown was and I said Kampala. However, my colleague felt I had not quite understood her question because she chose to rephrase it along th… Read More
2015-11-09 11:19
Christian Mafigiri is a Ugandan artist whose love for American comic books led him to pursue a career in art. He later trained as a journalist and he has combined his skills in journalism an… Read More
2015-09-08 16:48
English has become an international language to the extent that it now has many different varieties of which the most well known are the British and American varieties.However, because Engli… Read More
2015-07-08 17:29
Video of people walking along a Kampala street on a hot sunny afternoon Read More
2015-05-26 08:59
Mbarara Municipality is the largest urban centre in Southern and Western Uganda and 3rd largest town (by population) in Uganda.This short video is a basic comparison of what the town looked… Read More
2015-02-16 07:38
Digital Television CoverageAs of February 2015 only areas within a 65km radius of Central Kampala are covered by the digital signal. However, by the end of the year the digital footpri… Read More
2015-01-26 21:11
On January 26 2015 Dominic Ongwen made a pre-trial appearance at the International Criminal Court at the Hague.Ongwen was one of the commanders of the murderous Lord's Resistance Army that t… Read More
2015-01-07 15:12
The Uganda Museum is the oldest Museum in the East African Community having been established in 1908 by the British Protectorate government as a repository of some ethnographic materials.The… Read More
2014-12-31 14:25
Parts of Kampala can look like a ghost town over the festive season. These pictures were taken on Christmas day and streets that are ordinarily full of traffic were almost completely empty… Read More
2014-12-02 12:09
Took the Canon EOS 600D out on the town one Saturday night to see if I could shot night video with only the surrounding lights for illumination.I now know its quite possible and with a few t… Read More
2014-11-08 14:29
As the title suggests, this is a short video of scenes from a banana (matooke) market just outside Mbarara town shot in January 2014.The bananas are brought from the surrounding villages and… Read More
2013-08-19 11:07
After blogging about the inadequacy of the Uganda Communication Commission's sensitisation programme for the ongoing migration from analogue to digital television I was pleasantly surprised… Read More
2013-08-16 11:24
Kampalans lining up to buy GOTV decoders. What most don't know is that digital migration is not the same as subscribing to a digital PayTV provider (photo courtesy of Daily Monitor)The confu… Read More
2013-07-09 06:34
Early in the morning on Wednesday 3rd July 2013 the police in Mbarara municipality conducted a pre-dawn security operation in the municipality’s Kakoba division ostensibly to weed out… Read More
2013-06-20 19:20
So, James Gandolfini is dead. Ordinarily an American actor's death would mean nothing more for me than a few minutes on the news and I'd be back to whatever I was doing. However, Gandolfini'… Read More
2013-01-08 15:03
Victoria University KampalaThe controversial anti-homosexuality bill before the Ugandan parliament has claimed more collateral damage. The latest victims of this bill are the students of Vic… Read More
2013-01-05 06:45
Today I realised that the Orange Africa Cup of Nations 2013 AFCON 2013 (or CAN 2013 if you are Francophone) will be kicking off in exactly 2 weeks in South Africa and unlike most guys m… Read More
2013-01-03 09:19
The Uganda Law Society website has been hacked by Anonymous, a Hacktivist group that has made a name for itself over the past few years, who claim they want to bring to the world's… Read More
2013-01-02 18:13
As I settle into 2012 I have decided to pay some long overdue attention to this blog of mine. In fact, one of my (many) resolutions this year is to be a more active blogger. I happen to thin… Read More
2012-09-04 11:05
I started a postgraduate course in management yesterday and I am feeling quite nice about being a student again, 10 years after my undergraduate studies. I wonder why I hadn't done this ear… Read More
2012-03-09 06:21
I spent yesterday trying to write a post on my views on Invisible Children's KONY 2012 video that has gone viral and garnered millions of views (38,430181 on YouTube as I writ… Read More
2012-02-16 14:01
I recently committed myself to taking part in the Africa Reading Challenge 2012, whose rules are pretty basic. Here they are as originally suggested by Kinna who started the whole challenge… Read More
2012-02-08 09:04
I recently visited my friendly neighbourhood DVD bootlegger to see if I could get a copy of Luther and because he didn't have it (or any other British series I suggested) we g… Read More
2012-01-21 20:56
Another great song for AFCON 2012. I prefer the video but I still think Celebrons L'Afrique is better Read More
2012-01-19 13:27
We moan and groan and frankly b*%ch alot about the state of our country-Uganda, but as we approach our 50th birthday stop to reflect and think, our national emblem (the Crested Crane) has a… Read More
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