Day: August 19, 2022

By Muhimbise George As I penned down this article, I reflected on the Luganda adage saying that “sebusilu bwa njoka bugilisa nyinizo”, loosely translated that the foolishness of worms makes them eat the host, of course when the host dies, the worms also die! It is quite devastating speaking about Uganda and its state of affairs where scandals compete for headlines in our news outlets, so much that we have gotten used to them that the best we can do is to make fun of them and life continues! From state house to parliament, from central government to local governments, from public institutions to religious institutions, the scavengers are on the rampage feasting on the carcass called Uganda! It's indeed a carcass because everything has been stolen and we are a skeleton of what we ought to be...

Source: BBC Somalia’s greatest living poet Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame Hadraawi has died in the Somaliland capital, Hargeisa, aged 79. Hadraawi was widely regarded as the greatest living Somali poet – dubbed by some as the Shakespeare of Somalia. Born in 1943 in Togdheer, he was known to Somalis by his nickname Hadraawi, meaning “the master (or father) of speech”. The poet had been ill for some time. Hadraawi wrote the lyrics to more than 200 epic poems and the lyrics to more than 70 songs. His early work was broadcast across the region and in the 1970s he wrote poems that were critical of Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre’s government. He ended up being imprisoned for five years for the work. After his release, he went into exile in Djibouti, but continued his political criticism through a ...