Kampala is a mountain place, though you will never say that! It is on a plateau at 1189 metres a.s.l. and a few kilometers away of the northern coasts of Lake Victoria. The lake is its main tourist at-traction. Kampala is a very young city, built in the 19th century around the British military fort that would protect the whole territory. It became the national capital of Uganda in 1962, as soon as the nation was independent but was partially destroyed – a few years later – during the civil war. So Kampala really started to exist only in the…
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Sabina Chebichi belonged to the Elgeyo people of Kenya’s western highlands. Born in Trans Nzoia and the second oldest of nine children, she lived in a mud hut and helped to tend the cattle on the family farm while doing other household chores. Chebichi would rise from her humble beginnings to earn acclaim in the world of sports. In the early 1970s, she stood out from among her fellow school runners. The 14-year-old from Mlimani Primary School near Kitali shocked athletic pundits during a meet organized by the Kenya Amateur Athletics Association in Kericho in May 1973. In that major…
The decision was made after Twitter agreed to meet all conditions set by the Nigerian government, according to a government statement. Those conditions include “managing prohibited publication in line with Nigerian law” and addressing issues of operations and tax. Last June, the Nigerian government suspended Twitter’s operations in the country, accusing the American social media giant of allowing its platform to be used “for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.” The ban was announced just two days after Twitter deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari that was widely perceived as offensive. In the tweet, Buhari threatened…
‘Stop us if you can!’: Nigeria are tipped as the early favourites to win the Africa Cup of Nations after victory over Egypt, with social media users hailing their display as the ‘best football’ so far at the tournamentNigeria opened their Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a fine win over Egypt Social media users have hailed their performance as the best of the tournament Some have gone as far as tipping them as the early favourites to win the trophy By Daniel Davis For Mailonline Published: 17:27 EST, 11 January 2022 | Updated: 17:30 EST, 11 January 2022 Nigeria have been widely…
The following Op-Ed is written by Sherylle Dass, Zimkhitha Mhlahlo & Tsukudu Moroeng of the Legal Resources Centre In 1994, South Africa transitioned from an undemocratic apartheid state into a constitutional democracy governed by a Constitution which holds basic values and principles such as human dignity and equality. The Preamble of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, adopted in 1996, sets out the main goals of our Constitution: to heal the divisions of the past and establish a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights, to lay the foundations for a democratic and open society…
Issued on: 11/01/2022 – 11:20 Heard of the honeyguide, the charismatic sparrow-sized bird with a white ear patch and a pink bill that leads people in parts of Africa to honey? Now a new study shows that this unique bird-human partnership may be about to die out among the Awer people in Kenya’s coastal Lamu regionIts demise is blamed on political insecurity, waning interest among the young and drought that has led to fewer bees and less honey.Awer honey hunters have for centuries whistled through holes pierced in the shells of giant African land snails to make contact with the…
October 28 was a bad day for Ugandan finance minister Matia Kasaija. Hauled into parliament and grilled over the terms of a $200m Chinese loan for the expansion of Entebbe airport, which serves the capital Kampala, he apologised to the assembled lawmakers. “We shouldn’t have accepted some of the clauses,” he said. “But they told you . . . either you take it or leave it.” At issue was a contract signed six years earlier with China Eximbank, one that some Ugandan lawmakers, officials and lawyers say undermines national sovereignty. A report by Ugandan newspaper Daily Monitor even suggested that Beijing could seize Entebbe…
Iyabanda Intsimbi / The metal is cold, the South African artist Cinga Samson’s solo exhibition at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York, is composed of a series of (self)portraits and ‘private’ scenes that border on the ritual and funereal. Cinga’s portraits are pensive, sans pupil, cool and casual, confidently posing and adorned in gold. His dark palette of oils sinks his Black figures into ‘their’ world, threatening to disappear them into the Darkness that looms right behind Vusi Nkomo on the Blackness of the works of Cinga Samson. Ibhungane 9, 2020 “Lest we think…
Published 11 January 2022 Olushola Odeyinde Nigerian singer, Daniel Anidugbe, has revealed that his father was the first person he called when he lost his virginity at the age of 21. The artiste in an interview on TheWill Downtown Magazine’s current edition spoke about becoming a parent, his social media outrage last year, and his relationship with his father. Kizz Daniel said “My dad is my best friend. I used the word ‘is’ because he’s still in my heart after him, then my brother. So I was really close to my dad but not so much with my mum. “As…
Condra has manufactured and delivered a 30/10-tonne overhead crane designed to marry two mutually opposing tender specifications: high lift-height and tight overall dimension The 30/10-ton maintenance crane being prepared for load test, showing digital readouts (left of photo) and the underslung auxiliary hoist in the background. (Image source: Condra) The double-girder electric overhead travelling crane is for dragline house maintenance. A 30-ton crab-mounted main hoist will service hydraulic cylinders, motors and gearboxes within the house while an auxiliary 10-ton underslung hoist executes additional duties, including external loading and unloading of equipment. Condra has delivered the machine on December 9, which…