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 …

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 …

Uganda’s own Scarlet Lion has created a Google group just for you…
Citizen Media in Uganda
From Glenna:
After I had received a bunch of inquires from people around the globe about
Citizen Media in Uganda, I thought it …

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I don’t think that I have ever been more nervous about this project than when I …

And then one day the question came… “Do you have any Moringa?” Ummm… whaaaa?
“MORINGA? What is that?” So scratching our heads we began to mine the depths that is a Google search and discovered that we did indeed have Moringa. Not only did we have Moringa, but it is an amazing multi-use, hardy miracle plant that if you believe what everyone says about it could feed the poor, help HIV/AIDS patients, purify water, feed livestock, be used as a biofuel, as well as grow stronger healthier plants and children. It almost sounds like the latest huckster prank, there is almost nothing this plant cannot do. If we had not been approached for it by a trusted friend I doubt we would have believed a word of it.

We here at Project Diaspora believe that the real hope for change in Uganda and the rest of Africa lies with its people both at home and in the Diaspora. So it was with no …

I am writing in response to an article in the Monitor on August 5th 2006 by Timothy Kalyegira entitled “Why haven’t our PhDs caused devt in Uganda?” In this article, writer among others refers to …

This announcement was just released yesterday by the US Embassy in Kampala, Uganda regarding Fred Mutebi.
FRED MUTEBI
April 2008 State Alumni Member of the Month.
Mr. Fred Mutebi, a 2003 alumnus of the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program, has …

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 …

Our friend Michael Kirkpatrick sent us this little bit of news. We are thrilled to see Fred Mutebi’s work as well as the work he is doing with “Let Art Talk” (in the organization he …

So, I get this random e-mail. It says “Do you know this guy?” Mind you this e-mail was not even sent to me, it was a forward from TMS Ruge. Which he got randomly from …

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 …

I was sitting at the airport in Detroit when I realized that I’ve been doing quite a bit of traveling in the past 12 months. Not a heavy amount to some globetrotter friends I know, …