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Abstain from meat... let’s go vegetarian!
(Opinions)
1-07-2009
by Mike Ssegawa
( Face to Face : picture by Shiv Mogali )
“Animal what?” very many people in Kampala would ask if you put it to them that animals too have rights. “Which rights?” they would quip, but they would have their reasons: everyday, thousands of...
Climate change could be a blessing for Africa
(Opinions)
8-12-2009
by Mike Ssegawa
Climate change could have positive implications for Africa. Apparently, the rich countries are desperate. They cannot escape because mother earth is angry and will swallow them first if they do nothing about it. At the top of the guilt list are...
Deal or No Deal
(Short Story)
18-11-2009
by Mike Ssegawa
There’s such a thing called family business. The Fords build cars and they cannot live without steel. The Gates are computer programmers whose business is driven by silicon. The Bush family are into oil and they won’t spare any force to keep the...
Finding balance in a stormy sea
(Short Story)
29-04-2009
by Mike Ssegawa
Today, one US dollar costs 2160 Uganda shillings. A little petrol costs 2240 Uganda shillings, which is a dollar and some cents. That means that the prices of all other consumer items are skyrocketing in this part of the world.
While not so...
Has Consumerism Truimphed Over Religion at Christmas?
(Opinions)
10-12-2005
by Mike Ssegawa
Christmas is out of the churches and all over the shops. Even churchgoers are more worried of what to dress, eat, and drink and where to go for entertainment. It is not about where and what state of the soul they will be. Christmas is just a...
Home-like Education is Better
(Opinions)
18-11-2004
by Mike Ssegawa
You are the family breadwinner. A week ago your boss fired you and you aren't certain what your next job will be. For sure you have empty pockets and last night your kids and wife went to bed with empty stomachs. Your landlord is soon at your door...
Is it worth it?
(Short Story)
7-08-2009
by Mike Ssegawa
(Picture, Children in a displaced camp- Uganda , by Andrew Kaggwa )
Politics is not a career of the smartest people. Yet, everything else rotates around it. This is my experience in my country, Uganda.
I was born six years before the...
Letter to the youth
(Opinions)
24-07-2004
by Mike Ssegawa
I have watched again and again, Martin Mwangi’s drama, ‘The Youth Minister’. Each time I do, I develop new insights. In the drama, he poses questions about the world of youth and the many people fearing to go near your age group (youth). You,...
Live Life ‘King Size’
(Opinions)
3-02-2005
by Mike Ssegawa
Kings in this generation are few. And the idea of king is so distant, that when I asked a twelve-year-old boy to name at least two kings, he gave me vague answers like, “king of golf, Tiger Woods and Ronaldo, king of soccer.” I laughed it off but...
MDGs? Focus on Household Incomes
(Opinions)
29-05-2005
by Mike Ssegawa
1st Place Winner of the Millennium Development Goals writing contest
My country Uganda, is one of the poorest on the planet. And in my view, needs to focus on raising household incomes to draw itself from the poverty tsunami. With eyes...
The Price for my Dream
(Short Story)
18-11-2004
by Mike Ssegawa
Exams always made me sick. I feared them more than I would fear a sword. Now it was KCSE, the hottest of all exams I had ever written. I sat wondering whether I'll ever make it to the university. I remembered a friend who wet his blue shorts on...
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