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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Newspaper columns
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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Sexual turbulence rife in Christian Africa
Adultery is something I’ve never really thought about much. But the papers here in Uganda are full of it: adultery is no longer a crime.
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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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Laugh, weep or run: Idi Amin on the silver screen
Evil is never easy to look in the eye. So it’s no surprise that The Last King of Scotland is getting mixed reactions in this corner of the world, where the story, both its real and Hollywood version, unfolds.
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Dead religion simply needs to be renewed
Gwyne Dyer’s commentary in the New Vision of March 27, page 10, arguing that religion promotes bad behaviour, while secularism promotes good, has more holes in it than a house of Swiss cheese.
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