Why do loving parents sacrifice everything to make sure they buy the best education they can afford for their children? To get them into the right crowd: alumni of a great school. Gone are the days when your alumni were your best friends who meant well. Today’s dot-com alumni are devious. They speak and pretend to mean well. Inside are bad souls of people cursing and plotting all kinds of bad plans against you. Their actions speak louder. They will never offer any helpful opportunity! Our parents were lucky. They made the right friendships at school. These later took over…

Leadership is about trust. You cannot build trust without a strong investment in relationships. We live in an era of the ‘sofa factor’ risk – people work with folks they know. Today, trust, loyalty, the right attitude, skill, and agility are more important than qualifications. If your attitude is fine, and I can trust you, you are a great candidate for training. And that is the approach state parastatals consider when it comes to recruitment. If you have the right attitude. You build relationships with people and you are a person of impeccable integrity, you will go places. It is…

Even in the city centers, pockets of poverty exits in extreme. Poverty is everywhere you look. It is the poverty of the mind and heart that never leaves. The lifestyle is so similar you wonder whether we poor Africans conduct benchmarking studies on how to live miserably. Kibera slum in Nairobi is like an extension of the Kikoni slum in Kampala. A visit to a high-rise apartment in the middle of any city will leave you holding your nose for the stench is unbearable! The lift never works. The apartment building is never maintained and each room is a mini…