October 3, 2012 was the second anniversary of the death of Ancentus Ogwella Akuku, who was better known as Akuku Danger. A Wikipedia entrance repeats the popular story that Akuku was nicknamed “Danger” because “women were very attracted by his handsome looks”. He died on October 3, 2010, aged 94. The Wikipedia post says Akuku […]
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The Story Of A Great Kenyan Polygamist, Uganda’s Warrior Queen, And African Chiefs And Big Men
October 3, 2012 6 Comments Short URL 100 wives, 160 children, Africa, Akuku Danger, Ancentus Ogwella, Andrew Mwenda, cane errant ministers, Chad strongman President Idriss Deby, divorced 85, first Ugandan to own a motorcycle, Idi Amin, Jomo Kenyatta, Kamuzu Banda, Malawi, Milton Obote, natives, Nyabingi Revolt, Nyakishenyi revolt, October 1962, permission to drink whisky, polygamist, post-independence leaders, Queen Nyabingi Kaigirwa, slaps his ministers Heroes & Villains, Rogue Stuff
Cloak And Dagger Politics And War: How The ‘New’ East Africa Was Born From The Fires Of The Old
The fact that South Sudan, Somalia and Sudan have applied to join the East African Community (comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) was unthinkable even as the 1970s ended. The forces pulling East Africa were either southward, when for example Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, Uganda’s Milton Obote, and Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda formed the famed “Mulungushi […]
June 4, 2012 2 Comments Short URL Angola, Botswana, Col Mengistu Haile Mariam, Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, Frontline, Isaias Afewerki, Julius Nyerere, Kenneth Kaunda, Khartoum, Lesotho, Meles Zenawi, Milton Obote, Mozambique, Mulungushi Club, Nelson Mandela, OAU Liberation Committee, Paul Kagame, Rwanda Patriotic Army/Front, Siad Barre, Tanzania, Tanzania People's Defence Force oust Idi Amin, Tigrinya People’s Liberation Front, Uganda invasion of Tanzania 1978, Umkhonto we Sizwe, Zambia African National Congress, Zimbabwe Diplomatic Shenanigans, Future Watch
Kony 2012 Video, Demons And The Beast, And How We Got Here (Part 3)
“Joseph Kony, a former altar boy subscribing to the same mchuzi mix of traditional-ne-fundamentalist Catholicism as Lakwena, and who also dabbled in the occult, had been lurking in the shadows in the last days of the Holy Spirit movement, recruiting former soldiers to his cause” This is the third part of the well-known and little-known […]
March 15, 2012 4 Comments Short URL Anyanyas, Buganda king Mutesa, child soldiers, ensolo, hatred of northerners, Holy Spirit movement, Invisible Children, Isaac Newton Ojok, Jinja, Joseph Kony, kadogos, Kakira sugar plantations, Kampala, Kony 2012 video, Lakwena, Luwero Triangle, Milton Obote, Museveni, NRA, shea oil, Uganda Freedom Movement (UFM) Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons, Rogue Stuff
Kony 2012 Video, Sowing The Seeds From Which The Nightmare Was Born, And How We Got Here (Part 2)
I ran into Museveni on the late afternoon of, if I remember accurately, February 4, 1981. He was wearing a short sleeve beige shirt untucked, and khaki trousers, and ambling along in his trademark wobbly walk. He had pistol in a holster to his right side, and another one stuck into his belt to the […]
March 14, 2012 17 Comments Short URL 1.4 million to 1.6 million IDPs, attack, Basilio Okello, British colonialism, Chango Machyo, divide-and-rule, election theft, Gen. Idi Yusuf Lule, Godfrey Binaisa, guerrilla war, Gulu, Invisible Children, Juba talks, July 1985 coup, Kabamba army barracks, Kampala, Kenya-Uganda Railway, King Freddie Mutebi, Kony 2012 video, largest camps for internally displaced people in world, LRA, Military Commission, milk-drinking-banana-eating weaklings, Milton Obote, Museveni, Museveni sworn in, Nairobi PeacenTalks, northerners, southerners, Tito Okello, Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF), Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM), Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Weekly Topic Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons, Rogue Stuff
