The Honorable Henry Ssewanya asked for my help to raise some money to buy some bee hives for his community near Masaka. So I did – I raised enough for a dozen of them and then, before releasing the money, I wanted to go to see the proposed site for the project. I had seen… Read More »
I really needed a break from Kampala so I organised some free accommodation at a Christian charity place (so many of them in Uganda!) and got an Uber. Entebbe is much smaller than Kampala and on Lake Victoria, a huge inland sea, second only in size to Lake Superior in the USA. There is not… Read More »
Advertisements look so much better when they are painted onto a wall and there is no shortage of painted ads in Uganda. Even the smallest shacks have adverts painted on the walls. They look really nice and much nicer than neon lights or printed posters. They are simpler in design and put across the message… Read More »
Everywhere you go in Kampala there are painted and scrawled and stenciled signs telling people that the land is not for sale. In the same numbers there are signs for property agents in case you want to buy some land. Even Chinese workers here on contracts are buying land as an investment. I wonder why… Read More »
My laptop has been stolen from the balcony of my house. Disaster indeed. I use it for everything – only 18 months old and cost me an arm and a leg. Apple MacBook Pro 2015, 15″ screen…. I loved it a lot…. I mean I really loved it and took care of it. Whenever I… Read More »
Last time I arrived in Uganda in the winter I came from Addis Ababa. This time I came from Dubai, setting off cruising above the highest building in the world, and ending up crossing the great African plains. My favourite part was flying over Kenya and I became very excited when I looked down and… Read More »
I walked around the taxi park and chose a matatu with an uplifting message for the journey to Jinja. I had heard a lot about the place – a favourite weekend getaway for Kampala expats so I was excited. Of course the matatu was stuffed to the roof with people sharing 2 seats between 3… Read More »
I had the day free and wanted to do some exploring of the area around the outskirts of Kampala. Lake Victoria is a big drwa and I couldn’t go to Kampala and not visit the lake. I was told that it was too far to go on a Boda Boda and that a taxi would… Read More »
I love crossing a border overland, to physically walk across a bridge or a river and so I was looking forward to seeing what it was like at the Uganda Rwanda border. The Jaguar bus stopped an hour or so after leaving Kibale and we were told to get off. The diver shouted ‘border!’ and… Read More »
The memory of the long bus journey form Nairobi to Kampala was fresh in my mind and I didn’t fancy another marathon trip to Kigali in Rwanda. I looked at the map and saw a place called Kabale which appeared to be near a lake. I thought that it would make a nice stopping off… Read More »