“We can not force some one to hear a message they are not ready to receive. But we must never underestimate the power of planting a seed”

We nicknamed her Kanywani. She was loved by all kids in the neighborhood. She would often give us the left over sweet bananas (mukokoteni —she called them) from her sales. One chilly Saturday morning, she woke up to an empty house and a broken door.

As the adults in the…

I grew up in a place between barracks and a river. It made me understand that if you found yourself between a rock and a hard place it wasn’t the end of the road. That it could indeed be the beginning of an interesting journey.

The barracks had the military, police and prisons.…

The thing about burrying your head in the sand is that sooner than later you have to come up for some air.

Time heals all wounds and replaces them with scars. But it’s also with time that the fingernails that scratch scars grow!

When you decide to own a company or become self-employed, you indirectly become a government employee—a special kind of employee who pays government for having employed you! You become government's tax collector; VAT, PAYE,...etal. And at the end of your financial year, you take…

History sometimes plays out in interesting ways.

When Francis Butagira was a student at Ntare School, he chaired the debating club. One day, he proposed the motion: 'The Obugabe should be abolished.'

That kicked off a storm.

The school had strong ties to the Obugabe. It was…

Some people make money. Others are made by money. Then there are those who work throughout their life enslaved by money...without even ever seeing much of it. All learn one thing in the end: Money is not a source of happiness. But happiness in itself is not everything.

“You invest in mine. May God invest in yours”
Hmmm, a hell of an investment strategy.

I'm always suspicious of people who say, 'Let me be Frank with you'. You never know who they get to be Mary with!

I don’t remember what exactly had happened but we were abruptly sent back home from school for a short break in the middle of the term.
Kenke, that’s how we fondly called him, sauntered back to Kanyaryeru only to be greeted, late in the evening, by abandoned structures that had…

When poor, it's difficult to identify your real enemies; when rich, it's difficult to identify your real friends.

If you think you have a poor memory, try carrying a cat by its tail. If you manage to forget the lesson learnt from that act, then you might indeed have a poor memory.

“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are”—Charles de Montesquieu; And this was in the 18th century, long before social media and filters.

Yesterday, while watching a documentary about Thomas Sankara, I couldn't help but think that maybe he was lucky he died young. We will forever remember him as the youthful African leader who cared for his people and who dared to challenge the status quo. Many of his…

Alexander the great died at 32; he had conquered almost half the civilized world. Jesus Christ died at 33; he conquered the entire world. The problem with us today is we keep telling ourselves we have our entire life ahead of us!

If He is alive and seated next to the Father, the man didn’t die for us.

When some of us were growing up in villages, we knew which person's banana juice we were supposed to avoid. It was usually the person that made the juice using jigger-infested feet.

Now, we go to the supermarket and buy water and juice, confident that it is safe for consumption…