Dr. Ian Spillman and his team are working very hard to restore Kisiizi Hospital to a safe place for patients, staff and visitors. It is a huge task but they will succeed – with your help. Please click on the following link to view a Power Point update by Dr. Spillman: Kisiizi Hospital Flood 9-2017 -slide […]
Dear friends, Kisiizi Hospital, one of the best managed community general hospitals in rural East Africa, has been devastated by floods. I am reaching out to you as a man born and raised less than 20 kilometers from that hospital, in Kigezi region of Uganda, and on behalf of the Board of the International Community of Banyakigezi […]
We have seen this movie before. Multiple episodes since 1962. Different actors. Same producers. Same script. Just a variation on a theme. The movie: Uganda Against Itself. The actors: various rulers and their courtiers. The latest episode – The Age Limit – released in 2017, now playing in a theatre near you. Produced by: Ugandan citizens. […]
In recent days, the springs of the great deep have burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens have been opened all over Uganda. Landslides and floods have exacted painful disruption on hundreds of thousands, displaced by torrents of muddy water that have turned their homesteads and farms into lakes and deathtraps. Acholi, Bugisu, […]
When it comes to top tier piano concertos, we are spoiled for choices. I could spend the rest of my life listening to piano concertos only and would have no regrets whatsoever. The challenge is to choose which single one, among the hundreds that are available in very good recorded sound, to take with me on […]
The Atlantic Ocean is angry. Hurricane Harvey, a devastating tropical cyclone, has left Houston and other Southern Texas communities disabled by floods. Seventy people are dead. $180 billion in damage. Then Hurricane Irma. An even more savage tropical cyclone that has swept across the Caribbean like a broom, toppling 80 to 90 percent of humanity’s […]
Delivering last week’s landmark ruling that nullified the results of Kenya’s presidential elections, Chief Justice David Kenani Maraga said: “The greatness of a nation lies in its fidelity to its constitution and a strict adherence to the rule of law, and above all the fear of God.” In nearly 54 years of existence as a […]
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