Do they know it is International Women’s Day?

I don’t know much about the history of International Women’s Day and I must say up until last year I had never so much as given it a second thought.
So what happened last year? Well I got an unexpected call from a company called Prowse asking if I would join them and other women to [...]

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Ending poverty in Africa is not about being fair! #fairtrade

Week beginning 15 February 2010 was always going to be a very exciting week at Ethnic Supplies Ltd for several reasons
We had submitted samples of beads from Uganda and Rwanda to a UK based wholesaler of beads and she loved the lot so much so that she decided to include them in Major Art and [...]

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What is Christmas like in Africa?

This is a question that I have had to answer more times than I care to remember! In this thread I will tell you about Christmas in my family back in Uganda
Christmas had always been a happy day in our household not least because it was the only day of the year that mother cooked [...]

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Gahaya links- A Woman’s dream to help other women

Gahaya links- A Woman’s dream to help other women
On 2 October 2009 I received an email from my buddy @TMSRuge inviting me to an exclusive online conversation with activist Willa Shalit I had to stay up rather late for this conversation but at the end I felt it was worth it.
During that conversation I learned [...]

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Rwanda, the rising nation

Rwanda- THE PAST
When one mentions Rwanda most folk immediately think of the 1994 genocide. The people of Rwanda suffered the worst genocide in modern times.
The differences between the Tutsis and Hutus the two ethnic groups in Rwanda go back a long way and it said these were compounded by the colonisation of the country by [...]

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Surreal motoring stories?

Here in the UK we are used to the fact that when you are involved in a motor accident you stop, swap insurance details with the other party and that the Police may be involved to enforce the law especially if a person  was injured in the process.

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But this is not the way [...]

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Are there circumstances in which corruption is justifiable?

Thursday 17 December 2009, I am in a cab in Uganda on my way to our family cemetery so I could leave flowers on my late father’s grave.
We get stopped by a female traffic Cop and before she uttered a word the driver offers to buy her a soda! This is a by word for [...]

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1972 in 2009

An odd title for a blog you might think but this is precisely what I was doing on 15/12/09 in Uganda
This day was especially busy and I was in and out of meetings the whole day, at 5 PM I had a free hour before my next meeting at 6:00PM. My phone rang and it [...]

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