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A few years ago, you would never find any self respecting television fan confiding in anyone that one of the shows that they were ardent fans and viewers of was one that was written, conceived, acted, produced and acted in the cradle of life (read Africa)….an African Television show was another name for low quality, poor props, boring characters and predictable plots and storylines. There was no African show that would get anyone interested enough to feel the suspense that the show team intended them to feel. Even when the show’s villains were plotting on kidnapping and murdering the protagonist, it was not scary at all and even if one was to be that poor ill fated protagonist, there would be no need to worry. However in the Southern part of the continent, the members in their television industry had already decided to tread these seemingly untradeable waters and soon mastered the art. Luckily for the industry, these past months have seen many African drama series cropping up and yes,

A DESIRE LUZINDA-FILLED WEEK A Tale of Hypocrisy, Lessons, Criticisms & Moving Forward Why All The Hate? This last week, a Ugandan diva underwent something that no matter what angle you look at it from, most female musicians in our country would like to experience, ‘being the talk of the nation’. Not a day went by last week before Desire Luzinda’s name came up in all headlines screaming with a burning desire to provide the thirsty public with the gift of knowledge about the sexy curvy woman who gave us the gift of Nina Omwami, Equation among other songs that graced our then amateur charts at the time. Radio breakfast shows and social media had a field day with each wanting to be the bearer of new updates on the Desire story…really? Before I state whether I am going to risk by sympathizing and showing support for this superstar her fans will swear that she is or I will switch off my humanity and point a hypocritical accusatory finger to this voluptuous artiste. For the

TRIPPLE PLAY Gyobera putting an end to Fille’s career.   Since time immemorial (read since these two hit the music scene), from the time when Irene Ntale figured she would never get filthy rich and rise to the standards of Juliana, Iryn Namubiru or Whitney Houston (isn’t it every new young female artiste’s dream) by singing for some church choir so she took off some clothes into a more skimpy but not so revealing kind of attire and hit the music world to make money. So she wore less, deleted Jesus in her lyrics and got cozy with likes of Bebe Cool. Fille also decided enough with selling milk in Western Uganda, she dropped into Kampala, got into a relationship with some veteran television presenter who ironically still wins awards for upcoming presenting (MC Kats) and also got on the scene. So for some time the two were always compared. They were like the Iryn and Juliana of the upcoming king. They kept minting hits and semi hits like Cherry Boo boo or something like that wi

THREE REASONS WHY BEING SINGLE THIS VALENTINES IS AWESOME You’ve just made it through the January lull and then all of a sudden Valentine’s Day sneaks up on you. If you’re single, it’s hard not to be jealous of all the loved-up couples that seem to be everywhere. But there’s no need to mope around eating ice cream on the sofa. Join us in celebrating the reasons why it’s AWESOME to be single on the international day of love. 1. Lack of love? Less costs Like most days of giving Valentine’s Day is not cheap, with the UK public alone spending an estimated £880 million in 2012. However, it’s one of the few days in which it’s beneficial to be single. While our loved-up counterparts haemorrhage their hard-earned cash on heart-shaped balloons and overpriced floral arrangements, you can treat yourself to something you’d really like. 2. Freedom of choice With a plethora of activities aimed at unattached revellers, a positive for singles is that

Today the number of people who have expressed an interest in the Millennium Development Goals is overwhelming. The MDGs are development goals identified and fronted by the United Nations [1] in September 2000(the beginning of a new millennium) that are intended to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets, with a deadline of 2015 which will probably will never be achieved because the year seems so near and there is still a lot to desire. I, like many people had not come to terms with this until last year in my First year at the Makerere University School of Law when for the Development Studies Coursework we were given the tiresome and partially traumatizing yet revealing task of visiting a slum of our choice, observe and later on write in relation to the possibility of achieving these goals. The situation was way worse than I had ever fathomed. In addition to poor infrastructure, our trip to Katanga was constantly punctuated with tales of frustrated young