On line presence

I’ve been out of action. I had a stroke in December 2018. I’m still recovery and trying to understand what is the meaning of my life. When you experience a near ‘death’ experience you look at everything differently. I am different. The loss of memory has been profound but I realise that humanity is just …

Poet Ife mistook her stroke for a bad headache By Edgar R. Batte

She is a visually stark opposite of her former self. Under a half cover of blankets and bed sheets made visible by the golden sunlight peeping through the window, Ife Piankhi looks on, seemingly numb. After a few minutes, she attempts a dull smile. With a tinge of pain, she attempts to raise her hand …

Ife Piankhi Hospital Fund

On the morning of Friday 28th December 2018,  Ife Piankhi was admitted to hospital in Uganda after a suspected stroke and bleeding on the brain. This is a very serious situation and condition. Hospital services in Uganda are NOT free so Ife and her family will need assistance with meeting those fees to make sure …

To Be or Not 2B

  Earlier this year I was a participant on the East African Soul Train, traveling from Nairobi to Mombasa on the Lunatic Line. We were encouraged to collaborate with fellow artists in the confines of a moving train and create something that was reflective of our personal experiences. The theme of the residency which lasted …

Noise on the Lake

  Join my next week in Jinja i promise you won’t be disappointed!

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 …

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 …

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 …