Articles by TMS Ruge
Teddy Ruge is no slouch. He perfected a hard working ethic as a student-athlete competing as a record-breaking decathlete and a sleep deprived Communications Design student at The University of North Texas, where he earned a BFA in Advertising in 1999. He competed on the Amateur Track and Field circuit after college in an effort to earn a spot on the Olympic team representing his home country of Uganda. While an Olympic appearance did not occur, the multi-disciplinary training required to master the decathlon has served well in balancing the many talents required in the Communication Design industry. Off the field, Teddy used the same competitive energies to horn his photography, design and advertising skills working at such notable firms as Kinko’s, Italia Advertising, Quorum International, Euro RSG, and Sally Beauty Company. Armed with a solid portfolio of work, a strong work ethic, and an unwavering determination not to fail, Teddy has built a personal client list that includes The Dallas Cowboys Charities, The Dallas Lighthouse, Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C., PRT Marketing and Chad Hennings Management among many others. Teddy also extends his personal creative “doodling” talents as a mixed-media painter and as a photographer. He held a two-man show with notable Dallas photographer Stewart Charles Cohen in celebration of African American month and has had his other works exhibited at the African American Museum and at various UNT Galleries. Teddy also holds two long–standing Uganda national records. One in the high jump and the other in the decathlon. Update: After 8 years, the high jump record now belongs to David Okot as of July 8, 2007. Congratulations David! Teddy is also pursuing projects to help improve the socio-economic landscape of Uganda by empowering individuals through social networking as applied to mobile technologies. Uhm, did we mention that he’s also an actor? Seriously, he is. Check out his resumé, er, reel. His body parts have appeared in such fine TV and Screen productions as Night of the White Pants, Date.con, and Inspector Mom among others… as well as various stage productions via his now defunct production company, Mass Hysteria Productions. He even played Bob Crotchett once, can you believe that? Stay tuned for some more uncredited TMS Ruge body part sightings…
Nettie, Abbey and Edris Lubega
Back when I was a barefoot wee lad growing up in Biizi—a sleepy village outside of the even sleepier town of Masindi, Uganda—my friends and I never ran out of creative …
Our server host did a cock-up of a job with our domain in the last 36 hours which caused PD to be unreachable by many of you. We had to delay several posts from UNAA, …
20th Uganda North American Association Conference | Orlando, Florida
We’ve got loads of all the action from the 20th UNAA Convention in Orlando. If you missed the festivities, fear not. I lugged my shooter around and …
Who speaks for the dead? The sliced, the mangled, the burned and scorched, the disfigured, the future “Miss Landmine”s, the eye-less, the lip-less, the ear-less, the de-virginated, the butt-less, the father-less, the mother-less, and the …
Ebel in the driver’s seat
In the absence of a hotel shuttle upon arrival here in Orlando last night, we got ushered into a bright yellow taxi once outside the baggage claim. I don’t know who …
It almost would seem improper to not take a moment to acknowledge history in the making tonight. I didn’t know if I’d actually get a chance to watch Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, but I didn’t …
We are firmly planted at Atlanta International Airport waiting for the final leg of our journey for the UNAA Conference this weekend in Orlando, Florida, USA. I made sure to bring all necessary gear to …
A boy reads a book in the new Community Learning Centre in UVira
One of these days Project Diaspora will mature into this massive database of African development projects helmed by Africa’s Diaspora. The database will …
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I don’t know how this one missed our radar, but good thing we found it in time. The Uganda North American Association is hosting it’s 20th annual convention in Orlando, Florida. Congrats on everyone …
There is a healthy aloe vera based products market here in Scandanavia.
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day;
Teach him to fish, he eats for a lifetime;
Commercialize his fishing innovation, his village eats for decades.
- Wulff Capital
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Oh, wait…
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I don’t think that I have ever been more nervous about this project than when I …
I am back in Kampala now. I have a deluge of information to dig through from the 1st East African Investment Conference. Actually, now that I think about it, I have a lot of posts …
The afternoon sessions here after lunch were for the most part held hostage as the EAC heads of state left hundreds of attendees waiting in vain. It’s just now approaching 6pm here in Kigali and …
President Museveni of Uganda opened the Presidential parade of keynote addresses with a reference to the New Testament. His charismatic delivery of Matthews Chapter 19, verses 16-17, was received with resounding applause and laughter. It …
We arrived from Kampala after an 11-hour bus ride through the famous thousand hills of Rwanda. Rwanda is also known as “the land of a thousand hills.” Actually, I would have to say that this …
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Project Diaspora is attending the EAC Investment Conference in Kigali this week. I am not sure what to expect from the conference, or Kigali, for that matter. This is my first time to Kigali, and …
This, is what drives us. This, is what motivates us. This, is why we stay up at night. This is another sad day in the history of African politics.
And yet the world stands by… doing …
The Rwandese Government is set to kick off the first ever East African Investment Conference later this month. According to the official registration site, the conference “is designed to showcase “Leveraging the East African Market …
If you’ve been looking for a way to help get the word out on Project Aloe, here’s an easy-as-pie way to help us. We’ve whipped up a nice little banner ad, complete with the code. …
Ghanian-born lead singer of Soulfege, Derrick Ashong, aka DNA, waxed poetic in support for Obama’s presidential run at a recent rally in Hollywood, CA. DNA was interviewed, ok “ambushed” by an identified reporter only …
The BBC Africa web site has posted this week’s image gallery. Featured are a couple of photos I found at once humorous and gut-wrenchingly sad. Humorous because the subject matter clearly illustrated our previous frustrations …
Over the next few weeks, Project Diaspora will be covering the plight of Uganda’s aloe vera farmers who are trying to find international markets for their product. Part 3 of this series looks into what …
It’s no secret that here at Project Diaspora, we love the word remittances, especially when it’s used to encourage directed investment vehicles in Africa as opposed to subsistence support. So it was with great pleasure …
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Over the next few weeks, Project Diaspora will be covering the plight of Uganda’s aloe vera farmers who are trying to find international markets for their product. Part 1 of Project Aloe is an overview …
