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On a visit to the Atlantic Ocean

Okot NyormoiCategory: News Okot Nyormoi, University academic, outdoor enthusiast    Spring had come round again. At Wrightsville Beach (North Carolina) in our fourth floor room a large glass door opens...

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Times Fall Apart in Africa over Chinua Achebe

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,...

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The 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...

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African 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...

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The 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...

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Joy 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...

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State 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...

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The African Dream: fragments from a shattered image

John OtimCategory: News John Otim is the Editor of Nile Journal, poet and novelist  In the soft lights of the mighty hall where once dined and wined the heroes of empire, where trophies and memorabilia...

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What 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...

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Ghanaian 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...

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Old 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...

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Corruption: 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...

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Africans 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...

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Transport 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...

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Africans 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...

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Sex 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...

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Homosexual 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...

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Human 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...

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Kinshasa 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...

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Diaspora 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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