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  • The Uganda National Anthem: A Prayer for the New Year

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    Atwiine Mugisha
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    From the onset, it is clear that before anything else, God is first! Uganda prays and surrenders to God to uphold thee. She leaves the future to the security of God, for then will her people be united and free, and if anyone tampers with this, they will, for their liberty, stand in solidarity and…

  • ‘Muniini, The Weeping Bean’ – Book Review

    ‘Muniini, The Weeping Bean’ – Book Review

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    Atwiine Mugisha
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    And maybe it is only that it may not have reached a great audience on the African continent, but this story ‘for children all over Africa’ — oh how I love this dedication — is bound to be an African household teaching for all.

  • Letter 2

    Letter 2

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    Atwiine Mugisha
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    The feel of a warm or rather hot shower is in its regard therapeutic. Mbaine would stand below the showerhead and gently turn the red tap. It was refreshing and massaging in a way. He felt his skin pores open and breathe. He loved it.

  • The Easter That Monday

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    Atwiine Mugisha
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    I would like to tell you a storyA story of a man I knowA friend I knowA mentor I knowI want to tell you that storyThe story which began The Easter that Monday. The Easter that MondayWas actually Easter MondayApril 13 2020Yes, infamous year of the covidThe evening of Easter MondayMy phone rangNicholas had rungDelivering…

  • Re-opening of schools offers some relief

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    Atwiine Mugisha
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    Some smart schools whose proprietors are autodidact MBAs made sure all the COVID-19 sanitary health equipment was bought only at school. A student was supposed to buy a school-provided hand sanitizer and a triple of customized school uniform masks with identification numbers at such expensive prices that quick math shows was actually a rise in…

  • Write your story today

    Write your story today

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    Atwiine Mugisha
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    What are we Ugandans and Africans up to? We must appreciate that our old ways of passing on knowledge and information to the next generations have been biased and alienated and as so, we the young generation of today barely know of our history. We know not our old proverbs and myths and legends and…