Rwanda: Celebrating four years of achievement with a bang
One of the cultural exhibitions at Heavens Restaurant. The New Times / Lydia Hsu. When Alissa Ruxin, an American with masters in public health, first moved to Rwanda in 2006, she assumed that she would find work in the public health sector. Instead, Ruxin spent her first year in Rwanda volunteering with Generation Rwanda, an organisation that provides More...
Clove picking accident paralyzes man for 12 years
Haji Ali Haji, who fell from a clove tree in 2001, remains helpless in bed, needing help for further medical treatment. A clove picking accident, 12 years ago, left a Zanzibar man paralysed and in need of medical More...
Rwandan youth in Manchester organise Genocide commemoration
On a breezy April day in Manchester, candles of hope were lit for the 18th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Some people gathered to learn more about the Genocide. Others gathered to inquire More...
Life inside Kiziba refugee camp
KARONGI – Located about 33 kilometres outside Kibuye town, Karongi District in the Western Province, is Kiziba Refugee Camp that is home to over 18,000 Congolese refugees. The refugees arrived in the country 16 More...
Tanzanians in Massachusetts know importance of culture
Elias Wankyo is overjoyed to have made the trip to New York in November 2004, so as to spend some time with former President Bejamin Mkapa, in the last year of his tenure. This is one way Tanzanians in the USA coordinate More...
Goatskin skirts and mock stick fights
Ms Saafi Gwatema (18) has a calabash of water balanced on her head. She is returning from a shallow well in Mogitu Village, Bassotu Ward, in Hanang District to collect water for domestic use. All families in More...
Who’s baby Black’s Daddy?
Kim Kibirige admits to a fling with Bad Black, who called him over paternity of the newborn Kim Swagger admits to having a fling with Bad Black, Bouncer suspects pair did it in Ange Noir washrooms That even rats More...
Nyabihoko: The lake with an intriguing history
Lake Nyabihoko is a sight for nature lovers and anyone interested in a little bit of Uganda’s rich culture. Deep inside Ntungamo District, 372 kilometres south of Kampala, lies a mass of water called Lake Nyabihoko More...
Kakungulu: The making of a colonial mercenary
It is impossible to write the history of the imposition of colonialism in east and north-eastern part of Uganda (the area that was referred to as Bukedi) without mentioning Semei Kakungulu. Semei Kakungulu is thought More...
Professor Munube Mashorogoto: First virologist in Uganda
Prof. Germano Mashorogoto Rwakakindo Munube, 76, can no longer talk. But according to his son Dr. Deogratias Munube he was the first person in Uganda and probably in East Africa to train as a virologist. Prof. Germano More...
