The Feminine Fight Club

    The feminine fight club was born on the 6 th July 2016. In a kitchen two women grappled each other to the ground where one sustained a twisted ankle. It had come as a shock, the burst of energy that erupted from the younger woman. It was the first day of her period …

I Look Away

I’m sitting in front of the computer trying to recollect all what I have achieved this year. It’s hard without my notebook. I have such a poor memory sometimes, so I tend to write things down. As a result I have many past notebooks collected in a box which I take out from time to …

The Life of the Creative

This month I will be a panellist at the Bayimba Music Festival Kampala, invited by the Lantern Meet of Poets a group of young Ugandans who come together to critic and perform each others poetry. I feel honoured to be a sounding board for them as they strive to make poetry more accessible and appreciated. But I’m frustrated, the …

Babylon?

  Babylon is all around me concrete and steel, right before my eyes. Babylon is all around me Confusion, I cannot see. Extract from Babylon by Ife Piankhi I wonder how the freedom fighters; Nelson Mandela, Patrice Lumumba, Walter Rodney, Toussaint L’Overture, Nanny of the Maroons, Paul Bogle, Yaa Asantewa, Nyabingi felt, when they realized …

Imagine This

Picture this…………..humanity lives in small communities of people who have enough land to feed the whole group. They make their own clothes and shoes. They have a borehole but no electricity. They use use solar energy to cook with, heat their water and light their homes. They allow no plastic into the community. They meditate …

The Queen of Katwe

  I’m coaching some of the child actors for a film being shot in Kampala called the Queen of Katwe. Its a success story about a Ugandan girl, Phiona Mutesi who learnt how to play chess and  has since gone on to became  the youngest African chess champion. Its a success story that we definately …

How to be ethical

    Since the beginning of the year I’ve been encountering issues of ethics. We talk a lot in Uganda about corruption and how it stops us from developing at a reasonable rate. But my question is what happened to the African Ethic so often spoken about by historians? When I first started reading African …

Resilience

  So now we begin again, I’m not sorry to see the back of 2014, its been a trying year for many not just me. Resilience is the ability to overcome challenges, to fall, down but get back up again, to keep moving and learning from our mistakes. I’ve touched and been touched by countless …

Chaos

So yesterday I was at home, you may as well say I was idle. I had nothing to do. I didn’t feel like speaking or interacting so I stayed in my room, read, watched DVD’s and basically spaced out. But in that space I realised how undisciplined my mind is, even after many years of …