A culture of fatherhood
“You’re such a Dad-Dad.”
This phrase, a recent favourite of my three-year-old Jon, has reminded me anew that there’s nothing like fatherhood.
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Newspaper columns
Ritual murder on the rise in Uganda
KAMPALA, UGANDA – “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things.” From Lewis Carroll’s nonsense verse “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” this is what comes to mind when I read the newspapers here. Is the world getting madder?
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Witch doctors, spirits and killings
Is it the global credit crisis? Is it the evil that lurks? Or is the world just getting madder? Whatever the cause, there’s a spike in ritual murders in this impoverished African country.
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I’ve resolved to spend more time behind bars
So it’s that time of year when all of our New Year resolutions aren’t yet broken. Among mine is to get into jail more often.
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In Uganda the “war of childbirth” continues
Her name is Fatmata. She is an African mother. And this is her story.
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Africans are caught up in Obama’s hope
KAMPALA, Uganda✦
So you think you feel good about what unfolded south of Canada’s border on Nov. 4?
You should see the party in Africa.
There has been dancing in the streets, public holidays and general high-fives from nationals to diplomats to expatriates, all convinced that, as one Ugandan paper put it, “America is reborn.”
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“God is not a black woman.” Or is She?
I discovered that this hugely popular novel, with sales now somewhere around a million, has caused a tempest in our community. And it’s left me wondering: is it just me, or is something fundamentally and horribly amiss in our courtyard?
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Time for US Democrats to fight fire with fire
Recently travelling back from Canada to Uganda through London, England – capital of history’s most influential empire – I got some renewed perspective on global leadership and change and how, in politics, there’s nothing like old-fashioned fear to move things along.
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