Please take a tour of my city, Kampala

Inside the Uganda Museum. A beautiful place to start your tour of my city

Kampala is my city. When you visit Uganda next time, please don’t go straight to see Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi or tree climbing lions in Ishasha before you tour the city. Read this.

Ugandan government to make Idi Amin tourist attraction

If you have watched TheLast King of Scotland or the Rise andFall of Idi Amin then you know something about Amin, arguably the most known Ugandan to the world. Soon, you will have the full trail of

the fallen dictator as the Ugandan government prepares to make him a tourist attraction. Read the story here.

Gay marriages cause climate change - Politician

A UK politician has claimed that gay marriages cause climate change

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Stephen Kiprotich occupies his space in the Uganda Museum

Marathon Heroe Stephen Kiprotich alongside John Akibua

Adventure coming to Paparanda and The Sunrise Thursday, January 23, 2014. Don’t miss!!

Science Journalism Forum Suspended

Dear Partners and Friends,

I am sorry to inform you that due to unavoidable circumstances, the 3^rd USJA Science Journalism Forum that was to take place on February 4^th, 2014, at Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala, has been suspended.

A new Date and Venue will be communicated.

In this communication, we still send our condolences to the family of the late Dr. Emily Twinamasiko, the NARO establishment, the Ugandan government and the global science fraternity.  Dr. Twinamasiko was slated to give the Keynote address at the Forum. May her soul Rest In Eternal Peace!

We thank those that have continued to support our efforts and promise to do our best to deliver the forum in its full value as soon as possible.

We regret any inconveniences these changes may have caused.

Yours Faithfully,

William Odinga Baikuddembe

Chairman, Uganda Science Journalists Association (USJA)

A Ugandan journalist’s New Year prayer (By William Odinga Balikuddembe)

Lord,

In my silence please hear me loud:

For people to speak it is I you picked

My lips they have taped

My head they have clubbed

My legs they have clumped

My tools they have smashed

I am timid

like a Katanga kid at a Kololo gate

I am as tense as a cow in City Abattoir

I want to run

but I can’t:

My feet, my head, my pride…

They say I am the Fourth Estate;

The voice of the voiceless

But in this state I am useless!

I am a journalist, Yes!

A Uganda journalist

Ask me twice: Who are you? Who are you?

I WORK IN THE MEDIA, so I say

Lord, I want to be a journalist in 2014

May you touch the hearts of Kayihura’s men!