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Okello OculiCategory: News Okello Oculi, writer, social activist, head of Africa Vision 525 Initiatives In February 2010 Ngugi wa Thiongo, one of Africa’s potential candidates for a Nobel Prize,...
View ArticleThe Spear and the Bead in Luo History and Culture
MacBaker OcholaCategory: News MacBaker Ochola, peace maker, retired Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Kitgum in Northern Uganda The history of migrations and settlements of the Luo people in Northern...
View ArticleAfrican Legend of Origin in Tom Omara’s Exodus
John OtimCategory: News John Otim: Editor of Nile Journal, Poet, Novelist, Critic. The little known piece of epic is the work of a young writer published in 1972. In the light of what happened in...
View ArticleThe truth about the Gomesi as a National Dress for Uganda Women
Thomas R Omara-AlwalaCategory: News Thomas R Omara-Alwala: A professor at Lincoln University. I was in for a surprise when none of our women turned up in the national attire for women of Uganda...
View ArticleJoy and sorrows of Acholiland in war torn Northern Uganda
Daneen PetersonCategory: News Daneen Peterson: worked in Gulu 2010-2011, now lives in Kenya where she and her husband are involved with Christ’s Gift Academy (www.cgakenya.org) and Suba Lakers Girls...
View ArticleState and Society in Uganda: Before and after Independence
Mahmood MamdaniCategory: News Mahmood Mamdani: Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research Last year Uganda celebrated its 50th anniversary as an independent state. The most striking thing about...
View ArticleThe African Dream: fragments from a shattered image
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View ArticleWhat the future might be 200 years from now
Jonathan PowerCategory: NewsJonathan Power is the author of the new book Conundrums of Humanity The industrial revolution of the late 18th century that began first in England and quickly spread to...
View ArticleGhanaian Poet, Novelist and Diplomat remembered
Okello OculiCategory: NewsOkello Oculi is the Director of Vision 525 InitiativeThere were songs in those days that lifted the spirits of young people from across the globe as in their hundreds they...
View ArticleOld monetary system of Harar and the city’s rich art of the silversmith
Ekkehard Doehring, Sabine Becker & John OtimCategory: NewsEkkehard Doehring is Associate Editor of Nile Journal, Sabine Becker is Correspondent The ancient city of Harar in the far north eastern...
View ArticleCorruption: moral hazard or all in the genes
Okot NyormoiCategory: News Corruption is never far from the spotlight. With the European Union’s recent report that corruption is losing the Community billions in dollars a year, corruption is...
View ArticleAfricans in the diaspora coming home: memories, nostalgia, dreams
John OtimCategory: NewsFor years in the metropolitan countries where he lived Ahmed carried with him the feeling of a nowhere man. Ahmed had lost all contacts with his family and with his homeland and...
View ArticleTransport and commuting in upcountry Africa
John OtimCategory: News We entered the small northern town in the heat of noon. We were surprised at the heavy smog cover even here. We thought we had left all that behind, in the sprawling capital...
View ArticleAfricans in the Diaspora coming home: building a dream house
John OtimCategory: News Nile Journal Editor talked with many Diaspora Africans returning or preparing to return to Africa and filed this report.. Check it out and tell us what you think For the...
View ArticleSex and gender determination not unique in Africans
Okot NyormoiCategory: NewsOkot Nyormoi is is a peace activist and is Professor of Biology at North Carolina Central University In the last decade or so, the debate about homosexuality has been raging...
View ArticleHomosexual minorities in Africa not unique
Okot NyormoiCategory: NewsOkot Nyormoi is is a peace activist and is Professor of Biology at North Carolina Central University In many Africa countries, homosexuals are demonized by such words as...
View ArticleHuman security implications of the anti gay laws in Nigeria
Toyin AjaoCategory: NewsToyin Ajao is a doctoral fellow at the University of Pretoria working in the area of peace and conflict Early this year with great fanfare President Goodluck Jonathan signed...
View ArticleKinshasa Chronicles, one Diaspora man’s experience
JJ BolaCategory: NewsJJ Bola is based in London, born in the DRC, blogger, writer, poet and coach I was filled with so much anticipation when I booked the tickets. It was slowly dawning on me that...
View ArticleDiaspora man home in Africa and doing the right thing
John OtimCategory: NewsJohn Otim follows Diaspora Man as he returns to Africa and struggles to cope in a new place Africa was home and Ahmed recently returned but encountering multiple difficulties...
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