One: people are using The Kampalan to announce actual events! Vision realized. Two: the actual event announced happens to be this month’s Uganda Bloggers Happy Hour, which 27th Comrade has taken upon his shoulders. Details: What you are reading is my first post to The Kampalan. It is the first of a number. I am … Continue reading “o happy day”
Since I last wrote, I finished work, slept in a geodome, climbed a volcano, wore a tie to a goat race (where I met Andrew Mwenda) and left Uganda. Yikes. I haven’t been home (by which I mean lovable Lawrence, KS, home of indie scenesters and dozens of locally owned coffee shops and more banks … Continue reading “so long, and thanks for all the matooke”
Kelly, UBHH newbie Tim and I had a run-in with the ever-opinionated 27th Comrade over the Virginia Tech tragedy at this week’s UBHH. Our passionate young communist argued that Americans deserve what they get and shouldn’t make a big deal out of things like this because far more than 33 people die from violence, preventable … Continue reading “arguing tragedy with a communist”
A hanging Jackfruitfrom TravelBlog Lots of fun things to talk about, post-Gulu/Lira/Apac. Links while I’m getting all of my stories ready: Jackfruit Music: a Canadian band after my own heart amatomu: the south african blogosphere, sorted is, can I just say, awesome. The main page features an SA Zeitgeist, a blog search, a list of … Continue reading “jackfruit of the week: march 22”
Last week Reuters launched a new Africa-focused news site called (what else?) Reuters Africa. The site features pages for each country (check out Uganda’s) that, in addition to regular and business-focused news content, include this: Yep. You know what that means? We just got ourselves an audience. Global Voices Online already gets 300,000 readers each … Continue reading “th-th-throw your (…) hands up”