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UGANDANS ''saying no to GMOs'' is GOOD for their small farms and the ENVIRONMENT.

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Current industrial agriculture aims to increase crop yields while reducing production costs but the impacts of those goals can be detrimental to the environment, biodiversity, health and sustainability. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are a product of industrial agriculture. Genetic modification is a gene-altering technology used to introduce new characteristics to a plant, which may improve its resilience to harsh environments, pests and pathogens. Genetic modification sounds like a promising option on the surface but it raises ethical, political, economic, environmental and social concerns that steer many people away from growing GM crops. GM seeds are most often designed to be resistant to Roundup, the brand name of a chemical herbicide produced by Monsanto. ‘Roundup Ready’ crops like soybean, maize, beans and potatoes have been altered genetically so they do not die after being sprayed with Roundup. This allows farmers to spray Roundup on fields to kill weeds bu...
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LAND FRAGMENTATION AND POOR DEMOCRATIZATION LEAD CAUSE OF HUNGER IN UGANDA.

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What is causing hunger in Uganda? And which part of Uganda is affected most?     President Museveni has on several occasions urged Ugandans and political leaders to sensitize the people against land fragmentation saying the practice, rampant among the predominantly agriculture dependent communities threatens food security and is a source of poverty. The biggest challenge facing Ugandan agriculture today is land fragmentation associated with the traditional inheritance practices and polygamy. Land fragmentation is more like a curse that can bind people into poverty. Land is a long-term capital asset but most people in Uganda don't understand this fact. When they break up land into smaller pieces, they sell those small plots. But there is nothing more dangerous than abruptly earning huge sums of money but lack financial literacy skills. Those who sell inherited land will end up being poor again despite earning millions. it's because in most cases they lack literacy ...
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REASONS FOR STAGNATION OF UGANDAs ART INDUSTRY.

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So many promising actors, artistes, writers, directors and producers in Uganda's entertainment industry but what is lacking is the right synergy, collaboration and advocacy to establish the intellectual rights framework to make the apparent industry functional as a true mine. To every art there is an underlying science and to every science there must be a corresponding art of presentation which makes it appealing for engagement. There is a reason why we have two hemispheres in our brain. A movie without the right scientific research that enables the connection and relatability will fall flat. There is a reason behind music scores and soundtracks to stimulate the viewers and facilitate connection and the psychology works. Some guy called Collins working with UCC once established the first of its kind studio in Mbarara (RAIL 24) in 2018, a fully furnished studio with modern technology, equipment and personnel. But how many movie producers understood the essence of this or ...
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Decolonizing African Beauty and cease Bleaching and Eurocentric beauty standards.

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In Africa, colonization had two main components. Infiltration: Stripping away culture, self, indoctrinating Africans and Appropriation: looting, pillaging the culture and treasure, commercializing and passing them off as their own while massively profiting at the expense of the colonized.   Infiltration: For centuries, Black people/Africans (especially Black women) have been conditioned to believe that our features are somehow less desirable. The full lips, wide noses, influences of European standards have permeated and persisted, skewing expectations of beauty for every ethnicity.    Eurocentric features such as a pointy nose, lighter skin, thinner lips, straight hair, slim figure, wider eyes, blue eyes etc, are “beautiful”, everything else isn’t which has made skin bleaching a multi million dollar industry. European colonialism shoved its traits and norms down the throat of Africans and infiltrated standards of beauty in every aspect. Beauty was measured ...
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Uganda Cities, Municipalities and Towns should be a place worthy to call home.

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Uganda's capital city of Kampala is also by far the largest town in the country. The city is both the capital of Uganda and the backbone to the country’s economy. Despite the city dynamic and engaging activities, the growth and development is at snail’s pace and employment opportunities in the city are dwindling, so are the living conditions. Kampala has a population of around 1,659,600 as of the mid-year count taken in 2011. Apart from Kampala there are other Cities in Uganda such as Mbarara , Jinja, Mukono, Masaka, Lira, Hoima, Fort Portal and Gulu. In contrast to such other major cities in Africa as Nairobi and Lagos, Ugandan cities are not sprawled or overpopulated. The rate of crime is low, and the cities are way safer. The towns have a fast growing economy and are expected to grow into commercial hubs and fringes to "de-localize" and decentralize the already overcrowding Kampala. ...
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Patrice Lumumba's life and betrayal by his confidants and rise of Mobutu.

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 Émery Patrice Lumumba was born on the 2nd of July 1925 in the Kasai province of what is now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was once a postal clerk and also a traveling beer salesman. Lumumba had a dazzling smile, and a signature pair of spectacles. He had 3 wives. But it was when he got into politics that Lumumba became truly dangerous to the old colonial order.   Belgium received the colony from King Leopold II, in 1908, and sustained an oppressive colonial system. It was frankly one of the most hideous colonial powers in a practice (colonization),  the native social structure was destroyed and introduced forced labor, mutilation, slavery in rubber in rubber plantations, rape and mass murder. Since there was no one free to hunt or grow crops, starvation resulted, and with it disease. Between 1880 and 1920, the Belgium Congo lost approximately half of its population. An estimated 8 to 10 million Africans died as victims of King Leopold’s “rubbe...
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Location: Mbarara, Uganda
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Thomas Sankara Luminary Son of AFRICA. ‘Homeland or death, we will triumph’

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Born Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara on 21 Dec 1949, in what was then called Upper Volta, Sankara was the 3rd of 10 children. He is remembered as a Pan-African, a revolutionary, a president, a musician and an upright man. His parents wanted him to be a priest, he wanted to be a doctor, but when corruption prevented him from getting into medical school, he became a soldier. He was a very talented musician, who believed the power of music as a force for building community.   Sankara’s position in the army and his natural charisma made him a good choice for political appointments, but his personal convictions also meant that he was often arrested. In May 1983, Sankara was removed as prime minister of then President Ouédraogo’s government and arrested once again. On August 4, 1983, Compaoré, led a group that freed Sankara, overthrew the Ouédraogo regime, and formed the National Council of the Revolution (Conseil National de la Révolution) and Sankara became its president. Pr...
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