Category: ugandan blogosphere

GVO Uganda: Is Uganda mentally, intellectually and creatively broke?

My next piece is up at Global Voices Online:

An interview with a Kampala City Council official has blogger Tumwijuke wondering if Uganda is “mentally, intellectually and creatively broke”:

What else would explain the near absence of public art in the city? Rich men and women in Kampala are opening new hotels, shopping centers, office blocks and apartments every month. These are well traveled and widely read (I hope) people who are exposed to things like good architecture, art and culture. So why is the city so bland?

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MS Uganda final report, a la Pernille

Pernille, formerly of I Have Left Copenhagen but now writing at Louder than Swahili, has published her final report on the two years she spent in West Nile as an information advisor with Sudanese refugees for MS Uganda. The report, in addition to being a fascinating, intensely honest look at development work, is beautifully laid out with photos and clips from Pernille’s blog. You can download it here.

GVO Uganda: Ten questions with the Comrade

My latest piece is up at Global Voices Online:

Beloved by the blogren for his prolific, provocative comments and his endless, passionate devotion to North Korea, the 27th Comrade was until recently one of Uganda's most active bloggers.


Self Portrait
27th Comrade

Two months ago the Comrade decided to take a hiatus from his blog Communist Socks and Boots, limiting his writing to the occasional post on the group blog The Kampalan. His decision was met with surprise, sadness and well-wishing on the part of the blogren, and this blogger missed his manifestos so much that she sought him out for a conversation about writing, reggae and, naturally, Communism.

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So. Cool.

CitizenUganda is a new site covering politics, business, fashion, citizen media (including a series of blog profiles that’s hit up Dennis and Glenna so far, among others) and other goodies.

The site’s still under construction, but a steadily growing body of editorial posts already talks about Facebook, the iPhone and the Daily Monitor’s redesign.

XOXO, and can’t wait for more.

blogren, what gives?

I’m sitting in Kansas biting my nails. Does this month mark the end of Uganda Bloggers Happy Hour? No word from Ivan (too tired from your party?) or Rev.

If it is the end, hit the comments and let me know why. I have my own theories (mainly involving you all sitting at home, mourning my departure and/or that you’ve concocted a bigger, better blogren bash and aren’t inviting me, though that would be crazy), but I want to know yours.