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NEW CURRICULUM: GENERAL PAPER STILL ESSENTIAL

‘…let our curriculum experts and development planners read and internalise South Korea’s Tortoise Programme…it has a lot of lessons for African education reforms…periodic renaming of the syllabi and curricula has so far not yielded the anticipated outcomes…the core content remains the same’. The new curriculum for Uganda’s education continues to draw reactions from various stakeholders [...]
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Circular No 7 of 2023: We Can’t Turn Uganda into a No-Man’s Jungle

“For Uganda to attract genuine investors, it must maintain robust regulatory regimes that ensure quality and brand protection, which is the primary role of the PPDA.” – Matsiko Ben Kahunga In his article published in The Observer and David Monitor recently, David Bwambale raises a very pertinent issue about the ‘decree’ from the Public Procurement […]

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TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: LET US BEGIN WITH THE BASICS

·”It’s not merely the abundance of attractions but the excellence of our ancillary services that matter. Consider the Pissing Man in Brussels, which draws 3 million tourists annually; we can aspire to achieve the same.” – Matsiko Kahunga ‘Hands-up here, if outside your gate, you can walk 200 metres barefoot…or even 500…let’s discount the outliers. […]

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Banning Imported Toilet Paper will ‘Teach’ Ugandans to drink Coffee

“UCDA should transform from an authority into a profit-driven value-chain manager in a public-private partnership with global coffee giants like Nestlé.” “Import substitution manufacturing is key to creating a productive, rich middle-class Uganda that will drink coffee.”   Coincidence perhaps. We had been musing over Mzee Mashurubu’ s Lockdown Exam questions. One such piercing question stated […]

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INFORMALITY: Let us begin where it MATTERS Most

It is possible to reduce informality in Uganda’s human capital.  ‘…even these high-level economists are telling us lower high school economics…things we should have graduated from ages ago…informality is very easy to manage…shouldn’t be a subject of this level of national economy debate.’ Mzee BSN was taken aback by the findings of the Poverty Status […]

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Family Business Legacy: The Uganda Experience

The family business question in Uganda …since 1853 (Levi Strauss)…since 1759 (Guinness)…since 1906 (KIWI)… since 1986 (Hotloaf). You have read these and others. Anything special about this word ‘Since’? It communicates one key message: the resilience of these companies, virtually all of which were started as family businesses, as evidenced in brands like Guinness, Nestlé, […]

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The Narrow Path can Extract Wealth from Development.

Yes, it is possible for development to trigger wealth. ‘… yes, it is possible for development to trigger wealth. Development in infrastructure alone, with no household income, will not create wealth… will have no impact… President Museveni can pick a leaf from our president… take the narrow path… and all households in Uganda will have […]

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Uganda @60 still needs women economic reforms

As Uganda Celebrates 60years of independence on the 9th of October, this year 2022  with the theme  ‘A declaration of African Interdependence and our shared destiny.’ ·  Uganda still needs women economic reforms even though their are progress made in interventions such as increased women in the legislation process, governance, with affirmative actions in education, […]

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NEMA Saves Mother Planet and our Posterity

‘…it’s the magic of 100 days…you only need to experience its sweetness, to believe it…it’s not another management buzzword…it works’…, a beaming NEMA official couldn’t contain her excitement while briefing the media and the country about the authority’s landmark achievements in a hundred days of their reorientation. And landmark they are, going by where our […]

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