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Love

When I speak of love, I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bash. I am speaking of that force which all great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door that leads to ultimate reality. This is beautifully summed up in the book of St. John; Let us love one another for love is God. And everyone that loves is born of God and knows God. If we love one another God dwells in us and his love is perfected in us. Let us hope that this spirit will be the order of the day. We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with the lost opportunity. We may cry desperately for time to pause in our passage but time is adamant to...

A time comes when silence is betrayal!

I write this because my conscious leaves me no other choice. We are deeply in need of a new wave beyond the darkness that seems so close around.  Over the past 2 years I have spoken from the burning pit of my own heart. Many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. Indeed their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live. Children wonder into the towns. I see thousands of children, homeless, without cloths running in packs in the streets like animals. I see the children degraded as they beg for food. I see the children selling their siblings, soliciting for their mothers. We have destroyed the two most cherished institutions – the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have supported the enemies of the peasants. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men. Now there is little left to build on. Peasants may well wonder if we plan to build their future on such grounds as these? As we bl...

A Youth Perspective on the concept of Tax Justice in Rural Uganda

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Transforming a neighborhood into a brotherhood

My brothers and sisters, we are only beginning. We still have a long long way to go and I would like to share with you the burden on my heart about the problems that still confront us. If I would use a subject for what I am talking about, I would call it; Transforming a neighborhood into a brotherhood . I want to try and tell you the truth, i want to speak honestly and frankly about many problems that we face in our nation and that we face in the world. I still believe that freedom is the bonus you receive for telling the truth and as Jesus said, ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make ye free. Transforming a neighborhood into a brotherhood. Now there can be no gainsaying of the fact that Kenya has brought its people and the world to an all inspiring threshold of the future. We have built gigantic building to kiss the skies, we have placed time in chains and we have curved highways midair. This is what our nation has done. What I want to say you my friends is that when w...

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Something is happening Busiki. Something is happening in our world!

Something is happening. Something is happening in Busiki! It’s always good to have your closest friend say something about you. The Youth of Namutumba are the closest friends whom I have here in Uganda. I was delighted to see each and every one of them at Ivukula Sub County Dialogue and Reporting Meeting in spite of a storm warning. This revealed that they are determined to grow and go anyhow, anyway.  Something is happening with the Youth, something is happening in Busiki! I am just happy that I work with Action Aid in this region supporting the Youth since I know somehow that only when it is dark enough can you see the star and I see the star in the Youth as they rise up. Individually the Youth are poor and desperate; collectively they are richer and calculated. On the rainy morning of 2 nd May 2014, I saw the actualization of my mental picture – a picture that I spent weeks “painting” with the Youth to come together and have a dialogue with the local leaders. Late ni...

Religion...how i understand it!

Religion If God give me breathe for 20 more years, I see myself changing the world because my tough processes are so different from what is the norm. I am the religion that to me is the realest religion that there is. To me, if you take one of the ‘Os’ in Good is God! If you take add a ‘D’ to evil is the Devil. I believe God blesses us. I believe God blesses those that hustle, those that use their mind and those that overall are righteous. I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that’s bad I’m going to have to suffer for it. But in my heart I think that what I’m doing is right – so am going to heaven. I think Heaven is when you sleep, you sleep with a good conscience and you don’t have nightmares and hell is when you sleep, the last thing you see are the evil things you did in your life and you see it over and over again. You don’t burn because if that is the case then, then its hell on earth because there are people who got burnt...