SPECIAL FEATURE | Alfred Geresom Musamali | School cooks usually only prepare and serve food but during Uganda’s Nabumali High School Alumni Annual Dinner held at Hotel Africana in Kampala on Friday, 24th November, 2023, long-serving school cook Anthony Mang’ara was treated among the Very Important Persons (VIPs). The Secret is …
Read More »Fare thee well, Bernard ‘Sisye’ Kirya
Bernard ‘Sisye’ Kirya and myself were excited by Manjasi Headteacher Keith Mutengu’s 1975 Independence Day offer of “Entambula” and Cakes OBITUARY | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Bernard Kirya (Sisye) and myself were among the most excited Senior One (S1) students when at the morning assembly of Wednesday 8th October, 1975, our headteacher …
Read More »Time for Uganda’s scientists to focus on splitting atoms to manufacture land
COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Uganda’s atomic scientists and other related professionals should now probably focus on splitting atoms to manufacture land. This has been the unsuccessful call by many concerned parties since 1986. The matter is now more urgent than ever – because, as conflicts surrounding land ownership …
Read More »Ofwono Opondo, advise Uganda Govt to consider selling, leasing or demolishing its National Theatre
COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Uganda should consider selling, leasing or demolishing its National Theatre because the target audience has since the lifting of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown shifted from watching nightly paid small shows at the theatre. Instead, they now wait for annual free mega shows at …
Read More »I once ate a Sh5m lunch on credit at Silver Springs Hotel
COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | I once ate on credit an over five million shillings’ (US$2,000 at the time) working lunch at the Silver Springs Hotel in Bugolobi, a Kampala, Uganda suburb. I then spent three months of my subsequent salaries, repaying for the meal! I had had a stint …
Read More »Flash-back to 1970s coffee smuggling through Chepkube, and the Agnes Nandutu who went missing
COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | The trending of former journalist Agnes Nandutu on social media this month reminds me of the late 1970s coffee smuggling through Chepkube and Cheptais sokos (markets) on the eastern side of the Uganda-Kenya border in the East African Community (EAC) (See Google Map). The …
Read More »An encounter with just a few cats made me give up smoking
How I abandoned an addictive habit that had kept me company since my Senior 2 at Tororo’s Manjasi High School in 1976 SPECIAL FEATURE | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Flamboyant former Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) spokesperson Simon Kasyate was around 2018 taking members of the Public Relations Association of …
Read More »Why my mother has never trusted me again with her monthly earnings
COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | When finance minister Matia Kasaija admitted in Parliament last week that some governmental offices were facing funding shortages and could not pay before this past Christmas their workers’ salaries, I remembered December 1979 when I lost my mother’s salary. My mother Mrs Eleanor Mwassa of …
Read More »African festivities are about eating chicken, but revellers object to “Rastafarian” birds
COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | African native festivities are to a great extent about eating chicken. The stature and trait of feathers on an indigenous chicken may, however, determine the Ugandan consumers’ preference for its meat during this festive season. Some revellers in Uganda are craving for or even willing …
Read More »Makerere University Convocation at crossroads
Makerere University Convocation is holding elections on 30th December but the ignorance, apathy, bureaucracy and even suspected forgery surrounding them could mar the exercise, WRITES Alfred Geresom Musamali SPECIAL FEATURE | Makerere University Convocation is the statutory body that brings together its staff, alumni and other stakeholders. Elections for the Convocation’s …
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