Archive for the ‘Culture & Lifestyle’ section
Not the job for me?
Both men and women in Uganda are venturing into professions that were formerly taboo By Lindsay Kunkunda. It used to be easy to define jobs in Uganda along gender lines. Secretaries were women, for instance, while men were drivers or lawyers. The winds of change have been quietly sweeping through our streets. Women ventured into [...]
Homes at the edge of the world.
Mount Elgon’s residents are faced with a choice: stay or go? But both options have serious consequences. By Andrew Green The rains that have pounded Mount Elgon these past three months have devastated Mike Wogigona’s neighborhood in eastern Uganda’s Bulambuli District. A tree perched on a hill above his neighbor’s house slid down an embankment [...]
Embracing the diversity of African cultural heritage through work of art.
For ages, amidst all odds and challenges of life, artists dedicate their skills and talent in pursuit of refreshing and maintaining the gradually fading traditions and cultures of Africa. By Micheal Wandati. A great number of people like the wide selection of African hand-made artifacts for the fact that; they are uniquely and creatively made [...]
Emergence of Cross-Cultural Relations
By Nancy M. Babalanda. Which better country to use as the foil for discussion on cross cultural relationships than Uganda? A country to the west of Kenya, north of Tanzania, south of South Sudan and east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Geographical boundaries or cultural diversity does not evoke differences akin to a [...]
A quirky Q and A with Maurice Kirya
If you could be a woman for 24 hours, how would you do your hair and why? I would have a healthy looking natural hair-style, no hair piece. Then again that’s just me. I would feel honest with myself. What’s the most beautiful thing about humanity? Conscience and free will! If you could hear [...]
The Real Machine Gun Preacher
Sam Childers (L) at Ersam’s restaurant in Muyenga with the author Missionary work found Sam Childers in South Sudan fifteen years ago. With his wife, he set up Angels of East Africa, an orphanage in Nimule in Southern Sudan. He fought Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) with the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), surviving [...]
An interview with a yoga guru
A Jamaican of Mali Origin, Pablo Imani is the principal yoga instructor in the Uganda Buddhist Center, a buddhist temple in Garuga. He gave me the ins and outs of how Afrikan yoga goes down. K.D: So what’s the history of Afrikan Yoga? Pablo: African yoga comes from ancient Egypt, not just as a political [...]
Rivalry in Uganda’s music Industry
Rivalries in the Ugandan music scene are good for business because the rate at which beef is rising between Uganda’s artists is astonishing. Artists who started out as friends are now bitter rivals: Gagamel vs. Fire Base, Rocky Giant beefing GNL, Goodlyfe and Bebe Cool and Goodlyfe in turn sparring with Leone Island. The list [...]
Art fanatics, where art thou?
Most Ugandans ignore the art that surrounds them. We ignore metallic artifacts in hotels or sculptures throughout the city. Nor do we pay attention paid to the chairs we sit on and the tables upon which we place our precious delicacies. But the art that really suffers appears in paintings. Artists spend hours, days and [...]
Not the job for me?
Both men and women in Uganda are venturing into professions that were formerly taboo by Lindsey Kukunda It used to be easy to define jobs in Uganda along gender lines. Secretaries were women, for instance, while men were drivers or lawyers. The winds of change have been quietly sweeping through our streets. Women ventured into [...]