Patricia Flanagan speaks at the UNAA kick-off dinner
USAID was gracious enough to send an emissary to speak to The Ugandan Diapora at the UNAA convention this year. We met Patricia Flanagan, on the convention floor …

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Young Professionals at UNAA Mixer
So, what promises to be a perpetually tardy convention, got off to a timely start at the Young professionals mixer. This event was not even on the original schedule. We saw …

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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 …

So we have arrived in Orlando full of anticipation but with very little idea of what this conference will hold. We were so excited to find the conference we never really looked at the conference …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …