Kakande Alex has an interesting post today on his substack channel Tips for Avoiding Costly Mistakes During Construction which I felt was very high level and not providing real strategies and tactics for getting through the construction process. The first aspect of construction for a home to understand is that it is a process of […]
An Alternate Approach to Improving the Girl Child Experience in King’s College Budo
There has been a much needed and timely furor of activity in Ugandan social media circles of the terrible experience our sisters in King’s College Budo go through. IMO there is no lasting solutions can be found without treating the root cause, which is that girls are second class citizens within the school despite being […]
Social Expectations Perspective: Jumia – African Company or Not
This is the hottest topic right now with valid arguments on both sides of the equation, so here is my unsolicited opinion. What we can agree on is Jumia calling itself African is to look exotic, different to be able to raise its valuation hence more money to the shareholders. Arguments that this is a […]
Boring in Pursuit of Fulfillment
Happy New Year folks, its been a while since I last wrote, but well the year is still young. Its just a week to Valentine’s day and I am contemplating what to do this year for my dear loved one, which got me thinking of how I should approach it… With all the flash and […]
Boda boda registration – An approach for KCCA
There are job advertisements going all around social media for enumerators to support an exercise to register boda-boda drivers in Kampala city. These are thoughts on how the implementation can be done in a cost-effective manner, getting a reasonable return for the investment. Stakeholder engagement and management – outline the benefits of the registration to […]
Versatile Blogger Award
I have been nominated by Jemima Nalumansi who has the full list of how the nomination got to me akin to walking like the Muganda lady of the Ffumbe clan (http://www.ffumbeclan.org/) she is, so anyway a tough challenge she put up to me but I have to rise up not to disappoint…. The rules of engagement: Thank […]
Uganda National Housing Census 2014: Completed, Results Out but What Next?
The Uganda National Census has wrapped up. Or has it? Really not sure, but my household is a statistic for the next 10 – 20 years as a basis for planning. There are outcries of enumerators not reaching some areas, children answering questions for households and the general apprehension that the census exercise is just […]