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Read. Reflect. React. Engage with the ideas driving change and add your voice to the conversation. This is where our team challenges assumptions, sparks debate, and dives deep into the issues shaping East Africa.


The Cost of Looking Away: How Tolerance and the Erosion of Punishment Are Undoing Uganda
Punishment, at its best, is not cruelty; it is not a failure to "turn the other cheek"; it is moral restoration. It is the way that a society says, "We still believe in right and wrong." Uganda's tragedy is not excessive punishment but rather its arbitrary application, especially its absence where it is needed the most. This is how we got here.
Draleti Louis
Nov 66 min read
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The Political Education of an Activist
If one were asked to pinpoint the exact moment in history that one-shotted the activism landscape in Africa, it would be the 1896 Battle...
Draleti Louis
Sep 34 min read
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Press Statement | For Immediate Release
Kampala, Uganda | August 2025 Uganda Must Act: Public Square Welcomes UN Resolution Linking Corruption and Human Rights Public Square...

Public Square
Aug 72 min read
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Ideology and Development: Lessons from Post-Independence Africa
The 1960s started as a decade of great promise for the African continent. From Algiers to Gaborone, Dakar to Mogadishu, independence...
Draleti Louis
Jul 56 min read
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Banks and Telecom Companies: The Parasitic Tapeworms of Uganda’s Economy?
Banks and telecom companies have sold themselves as so pivotal to our economic engine that dislodging them would supposedly spell doom.

Anthony Natif
Mar 263 min read
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Permissible prejudice? An observation about online discourse on whether prejudice can ever have a redeeming side.
Caring is a great thing, in and of itself. It is seldom ever good for one to become apathetic about what is going on around them....

Joe M. Watema
Dec 8, 20243 min read
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