corruption Archives – Thomas Froese

Mourning in Uganda with a change of clothes

Leave a Comment / New Vision, Newspaper columns / April 15, 2013 / 2013, adoption, African culture, Black Monday, childhood, children, corruption, Froese family, orphanages, orphans, poverty, Ugandan orphans / 3 minutes of reading

(The New Vision Online – Monday, April 15, 2013)

JINJA, UGANDA ✦ It’s Monday morning and I sit in a Jinja café wearing a bright tie, blue shirt, navy blazer and brown pants, but I’m wishing I could start the day over and wear black from my neck to my feet, everything as black as the black in Uganda’s flag.

This, as I read the latest news report of Black Monday, the growing citizens campaign pointing out what we already know, that Ugandans need to mourn, to grieve, to be saddened for their deepening losses, losses from thefts of public funds that are key to the wellbeing of this nation.

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Here is Africa. Don’t be afraid

Leave a Comment / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / January 25, 2013 / 2013, African culture, African politics, African university life, corruption, East-West relations, foreign aid, poverty, thievery / 4 minutes of reading

(The Hamilton Spectator – Friday, January 25, 2013)

ARUSHA, TANSANIA ✦ Edward should be fired. I can’t trust Alice. And our piano and laptop won’t resurface any more than anyone will know what happened to that $13 million.

This is how it’s going around here.

Not right here, actually. I’m on business one country over, just southeast from my home in Uganda. At the moment I’m drinking a cider of sorts, what the gentleman beside me called ‘rotten apples,’ a pretty good name, I think, for my recent experiences.

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We’ll always pay for our actions

Leave a Comment / New Vision, Newspaper columns / January 14, 2013 / 2013, African culture, African university life, corruption, corruption in Africa, responsibility, security, thievery, Uganda / 3 minutes of reading

(The New Vision – Monday, January 14, 2013)

KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ There are six of us around the table. We’re disturbed and talking about how to help. The place where we work and live and have friendships and worship with others is under attack.

Through 2012, this place, an educational institution, became, as one Ugandan said, “a den of thieves.” Then the new year had barely arrived when a campus home was broken into and robbed while its Ugandan family slept.

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