Notes without emotion?

So, I have been following His excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's demonstration-farming efforts in Luweero. The president has been encouraging Ugandan farmers (most of them are peasants by the way), to adopt the method of irrigation where used plastic water bottles are filled with water and a hole is drilled in the bottom to drip-irrigate each plant, i.e A water bottle per plant. I am lucky that I grew up in a rural village and at the same time had access to an elitist education (afforded of course by our boarding school culture and the fact that my parents had the means). When we had holidays from boarding school, many of my friends from the elitist school i attended, went to Kampala for holidays. A good number of them spent their holidays taking extra lessons ( we used to call it coaching) from places like Makerere University (anybody remember the famous professor Lugujo?). While my friends were busy at this, my father would send us to his plantations to plant/weed/harverst m...

For quite some time now, I have been thinking of creating a new blog!! Rather I have been inspired (Thank you Simon Kaheru) to put my opinions into a medium that the public can consume. I have had many false starts and have got bored along the way!! In other cases I have not got the response that i imagined or expected. My other blog , a rather technical one, where i give tips on the use of a certain programming language called "R" almost has no visitors and is not often updated (where is the emoticon for shame when you need it?). However, in private whats-app and google groups, and on social media, I tend to express my opinions on topics ranging from from social and political issues to professional ones (I am an engineer by profession). In these spheres, I have often got positive feedback and some of the clever people ( i wont mention their names for fear that their vanity may increase) think it is selfish for me not to write to a larger audience. So here I am, putting new...