Up close with the lions, crocodiles
We’re in the middle of East Africa’s savannah, about to be eaten by nearby lions.
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Hamilton Spectator
Maternal health must top agendas
KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦A pregnant woman here in Uganda’s capital was recently beheaded by her husband. Maurine Ampire, 38, was a mother getting close to delivering number six.
It’s one picture of life here, and a comparable image to the lack of voice that pregnant women have worldwide. No voice. No choice. Just death, and often violently.
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Finding true meaning of living
A visitor in Uganda sees the light, through the tattered lives of those around him.
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Evolution: Darwin’s theories exploited hideously
Re: ‘Taking the middle ground on evolution’ (letters, June 28)
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Uganda, a nation of conflicts
If a tree falls deep in the heart of Africa, will anyone hear? That’s the question for the outside world, as the debate that often pits the environment against the economy has taken a chilling twist here in Uganda, with riots, murder and parliamentarians jailed.
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Film gets its strength from Ugandans
Piling up its international awards, The Last King of Scotland has come full circle, finally released in Uganda as a rare film experience, if not an unusual life-experience, where story and reality meld so much that it’s hard to know where one begins and the other ends.
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Now we need to forgive each other: Yusuf
Somalia wants to move forward, but it has a horrifying past to deal with.
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Childhood as it was never meant to be
One of the unexpected things I’ve caught since coming to Africa for the long haul is a certain disturbing feeling in the pit of my stomach. It’s grown there quietly, feeding, I suspect, on the various foreign sights and sounds around here, especially those of the children.
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