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Counting (numbers) in RukigaRunyankore

Counting (numbers) in Rukiga/Runyankore

Our ancestors had a counting system whose terminology was similar to or shared roots with that of Bantu language nations all over Africa. It appears that there were words for quantities/amounts up to, at most, ten thousand. It is very unlikely that there was an item that needed enumeration ...
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Political and administrative structure of Kigyezi Region

Political and administrative structure of Kigyezi Region

Kigyezi, a colonial construct in 1911, was a single administrative district throughout the colonial period (1911-1962) and the first eighteen years of Uganda's independence (1962). It was then subdivided into two districts in 1974, and then smaller districts in the years that followed. ...
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Key events in the history of Kigyezi from 1500 t 1930

Key events in the history of Kigyezi from 1500 t 1930

It is believed, with reliable evidence from studies of pollens, that the area now known as Kigyezi had human settlements at least as far back as 2000 years ago. However, there is no reliable information about our ancestors before about 1500 AD.   Likewise, the pre-colonial history ...
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​ No American Briton or Ugandan is indispensable

​ No American, Briton or Ugandan is indispensable

British politics is in crisis. Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned in disgrace on July 7. His successor, Prime Minister Elizabeth Truss, who took office on September 6, resigned in disgrace on October 20. The fall of the two prime ministers dented Britain’s reputation for ...
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Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Roots and Herbs

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Roots & Herbs

Hard Bop, Blues and Soul – all here, in this Lee Morgan Edition of the Messengers that consistently set top-tier records to tape for Blue Note.      The title tune is enchanting. One imagines one sitting with a skilled medicine man in Kahondo ka Byamarembo, in ...
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Free for All The best Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers record

Free for All: The best Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers record?

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Free for All  Blue Note – BST 84170   Is this the best Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers? That’s a hard question, of course. However, to my ears, the answer is yes. Well, until I listen to other Blakey and TJM recordings by ...
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Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden – Part 1 – A parable of two deluded losers  Arthur Miller’s Willy Loman and Uganda’s Parliamentary Speaker Jacob Oulanyah

Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden – Part 1 – A parable of two deluded losers: Arthur Miller’s Willy Loman and Uganda’s Parliamentary Speaker Jacob Oulanyah

Central message Ever since Independence sixty years ago, Uganda has been led by people who have the fatal characteristics of Willy Loman, the failed and eventually suicidal salesman in Arthur Miller’s drama DEATH OF A SALESMAN. Jacob Oulanyah, the late Speaker of Uganda’s ...
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Music for Intore and other African dances Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ A Night in Tunisia

Music for Intore and other African dances: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ A Night in Tunisia

Jazz music, rooted in the African slave experience and its aftermath in America, is music that has maintained the link with the African American’s ancestral homeland. No instrument exemplifies this better than drums and, to my ears, Art Blakey was one of the greatest purveyors ...
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The Big Beat Art Blakey and the jazz messengers

The Big Beat: Art Blakey and the jazz messengers

This is indispensable jazz. How can a record sound so fresh after multiple listening sessions over four decades? I first "met" Art Blakey and this edition of his jazz messengers in 1978. Full credit to George Cook Jr. of Columbus, Ohio who introduced me to Jazz in Maseru Lesotho. ...
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Uganda independence A more ill-prepared country hard to find

Uganda independence: A more ill-prepared country hard to find

I honour the great men and women who stood tall in the struggle for equality, freedom, democratic participation in our national economy and governance, and political independence from Britain.     An incomplete list of the heroes of our pre-independence struggle, many ...
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