Involve family in their business Once I was at one of the top Indian owned company here in Uganda. I had been invited to make a presentation to the board on the topic “the role of the Board in strategy execution and risk management.” One of the attendees caught my eye. It was a 12 year old young man, who was seated among the board members. During break I enquired what the young man was doing among the top honchos of one of the biggest local fast moving consumer goods. They told me he was one of the grandsons of…

I come from Munteme village in Hoima. Some of the iconic buildings in our village, we were told, were built by the Indians. When I was a very small boy in primary in the late 1990’s, the first special building with two underground floors which fascinated me a lot, had been built by Indians. Unfortunately, the ultimatum that was given to the Indians by the then Ugandan president, Idd Amin Ddada, led to the closure of this factory. But that is a story for another day. 30 years later, I am here in Kampala. I interact with many Indian brothers…