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Kadaga at the Crossroads: Celebration or the Last Betrayal?

  By Isaac Christopher Lubogo The announcement of Mama Kadaga’s homecoming in Kamuli, September 19, 2025, has the aura of liturgy. The drums are tuned, the...

Isaac Kimaze Ssemakadde’s Light in the Age of Absurdity: Treachery, Justice, and Lessons from Miguel Street for the Uganda Law Society

  By: Isaac Christopher Lubogo V. S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street is not merely a novel of caricatures; it is a philosophy of survival. In its pages,...

Finding Inspiration In Timbuktu

  By Art Koroma As I sit here, quill in hand, surrounded by the whispers of ancient tomes and the soft glow of lanterns, I find...

The Wisdom Of Ages: A Lokomasama Legacy

  By Art Koroma In the heart of Lokomasama, where the sun dipped into the horizon and painted the sky with hues of crimson and gold,...

When Your Birthday Passes in Silence

  By: Isaac Christopher Lubogo Martina’s Way I have a friend in Germany, Martina. On her birthday, she did something I will never forget. She looked at...

Storytelling in Africa: Preserving Identity in a Digital Age

  Introduction Across Africa, the art of storytelling has always been more than leisure. Folktales, proverbs, praise poetry, and epic narratives are cultural anchors that transmit...

Fatherhood Buried, Society Broken: When the father is silenced, the home collapses

  By Alpha Amadu Jalloh Fatherhood has been buried alive, and with it society itself is breaking apart. In today’s world, man has been dragged so...

Roots and Remedies: Ancestral Medicine and Healing Technologies of Alkebu-lan

  By Emmanuel Mihiingo Kaija Indigenous medicine is a sophisticated, empirically tested system in Alkebu-lan, integrating herbal knowledge, ritual practice, spiritual insight, and community ethics. These...

The Griot Rewrites History: Ancestors’ Tales for Today

  By Emmanuel Mihiingo Kaija In Alkebu-lan, the griot is more than a storyteller. They are living archives, historians, genealogists, ethicists, and educators. For centuries, these...

Drums Speak Again: Retelling the Oral Epics of Alkebu-lan

  By Emmanuel Mihiingo Kaija Across the vast expanse of Alkebu-lan—from the arid Sahelian plains of Mali and Niger, through the verdant forests of the Congo...

Sacred Codes: Deciphering the Spiritual Technologies of Alkebu-lan

  By Emmanuel Mihiingo Kaija Across Alkebu-lan, knowledge is not simply material; it is encoded in the spiritual, ritual, and sacred realms. Indigenous communities developed complex...

The Silence That Still Haunts Our Classrooms

  By: Israel Y.K. Lubogo – King’s College Budo When I was still at Budo Junior, one of my teachers asked us to draw a hoe....
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