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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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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