Kenyatta: You, in your country - you have a "man eats man" situation. *Shakes head in disapproval*Nyerere: But you - in your country have a "man eats nothing" situation. Which is bett...
Inga-Britt Ahlenius served as Under-Secretary General of The Office of International Oversight Servcies at the United Nations between 2005-2010. The report which she submitted after five years of ser...
Benny Dagan, Israels ambassador to Sweden, had a lecture recently in the University Building in Uppsala. His talk was interrupted within seconds of its genesis, with an activist screaming out “Go bac...
”They said that there was going to snow chaos today. Mum warned me that they hadn’t ploughed when she left this morning. But I did not expect THIS.” That is what Gabby said as I met her at the bus st...
Places have paces. I mean this in the most elementary of ways – in some places people walk fast, and in the others, they walk slowly. As I walked towards the train station after one of my lectures, I...
I write this while seated at Entebbe airport, in southern Uganda, not far from the source of the Nile. As I sit at one of the cafés, with ridiculously overpriced meals, my thoughts are concerned with...
The following quotation is from “The Challenge for Africa”, written by Wangari Maathai. It is dedicated “To All the Peoples of Africa”, and is a book full of common sense. The blurb reads:“In this ur...
On a neatly kept compound in Pader District there is a court room. All the furniture is dark brown, with an additional layer of red dust. The room can seat fifty persons, all equal before the law (or...
A friend of mine is applying to several universities in the Netherlands, and she informed me that she has to take English as a second language because she is not a UK or US ;c...
It is an interesting thing, when what is said is not what is meant, and what is meant is just generally known. I meet this kind of communication everyday. Personally, I prefer the direct communicatio...
Beatrice, one of the students at Pader Girls Academy, has a daughter named Hope. She stares at me suspiciously, and is quite reluctant to answer any questions, or respond to any greeting. Her mother ...
Back in high school, we had a subject known as Theory of Knowledge. It was a subject you did not understand, until you understood it, and even then you were questioning whether you could grasp it or ...
Ugandans will line up to vote in February 2011. Campaigning has started, and the presidential candidates are moving around the country, trying to gain support in mass rallies. Politics here is an int...
The media is often blamed for portraying a much too one-sided image of this continent. The continent Africa, that is ignorantly mistaken to be a country in some cases. When people ask what Africa is ...
The sun rises early in Uganda. It seems to sympathize with our lack of manmade light – so it rises, and brings everything to life in the span of fifteen minutes. By the time Lotta and I leave the hou...
I am living in a post-conflict community. Some people speak of the war openly, others dont. I mentioned "trauma counselling" once and was met with the following reaction: "Why do you call...
When we talk about "field", we mean the surrounding subcounties in Pader District (I have failed to find a good map online). And when we say "we have been in the field" it entails a d...
"We will not return to what was. Even if IAS goes away, we will only move forward."-Chairman of Water User Committee in Olupe Ojule (a village in Omot Subcounty, Agago District, Northern Ugan...
Today is Saturday. A Saturday in Pader has involved waking up, washing clothes (the most entertaining part being how fast the clothes dry. The sun is so hot early in the morning that you can see the ...
We often do not have time for analysis of our own lives; so reflection will have to suffice. This time, reflection has moved along the lines of two movies. One of which the title of this text is conn...
I am sitting in the CCF Office. To my right there are stacks of boxes filled with books that are going to distributed to several primary schools today. So we are off in the Majestic Landcruiser...
MT and her newfound love - The Pineapple. Liz, Lotta, Me, and MT, in an elevator at Garden City in Kampala.My Great Aunt during a visit in Hoima (Western Uganda)Travelling... Weve spent a lot of...
This week, Lotta and I are working with CCF. Today we have been in office, with an abundant amount of free time, and helping out with filing and other practical things. In organizations like CCF, the...
After the responses to the last update:I sincerely apologize for calling Swedes stressed. This was not my intention. But there seems to be accumulated stress in Sweden, and my reasoning tells me that...
A litle more than a week back, in Kampala, we went to see the Ndere Group perform traditional dances from various regions in Uganda. The presenter was a seriously humorous individual, and one of the ...
At the moment I am sitting at the CCF Office in Pader. CCF stands for Christian Counselling Fellowship. Since we arrived in Uganda on the 22nd of September we have laughed, talked, eaten, verociously...
I will now make a break in the traditional nature of this blog, and write about the insignificant events of my day. Nothing intellectual, just facts. I sit in a room that has organized packing p...
I am reading a book called “Tall Grass; Suffering and Peace in Northern Uganda” by Carlos Rodriguez Soto. It has its source in the personal notes of a Spanish priest, Father Carlos, who worked in Nor...
Having been in Uppsala a few days, I have realized that I will never have time to meet all the people I want to meet. The calendar is messy, full of names and times. In the middle of all this, a univ...
This can be seen as the beginning of the adventure. And since the dot.com generation is lazy and would rather see the pictures than have me describe them to you in beautiful language, here are a few ...
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