July 2011
99 posts
hey,
hope everyone’s fine. I’m back home right now so i may not post as often, for about a month while i’m here.
have a good day!
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Ugandan National; Dr. Frederick Balagadde, Ph.D.,...
Dr. Frederick Balagadde, a Ugandan National, is working on a microfluidics technology that could revolutionize bioscience the way microchips transformed computing. This easily portable technology has, among numerous applications, the potential to become a powerful tool in the effort to combat infectious disease in the Third World, a cause dear to Balagadde’s heart.
About Dr. Frederick...
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An Excerpt From "Song of Lawino" Poem By Famous...
Husband, now you despise me
Now you treat me with spite
And say I have inherited the stupidity of my aunt;
Son of the Chief,
Now you compare me
With the rubbish in the rubbish pit,
You say you no longer want me
Because I am like the things left behind
In the deserted homestead.
You insult me
You laugh at me
You say I do not know the letter A
Because I have not been to school
And I have not been...
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Ugandan Poet : Okot P'Bitek
Okot p’Bitek (June 7, 1931 – July 20, 1982) was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernised. Song of Lawino was originally written in Acholi language, and self-translated to English, and published in 1966. It...
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Catherine Namono: Uganda’s first female...
archaeologicalnews:
SHE did not hope she would become an archaeologist, until Catherine Namono went to South Africa to pursue her second masters degree in art history. “The market was flooded with art historians. I wanted to generate new information on a virgin area, so I enrolled for another masters degree in rock art studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. That...
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