I love this analogy! You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere. Why did you spill the coffee? “Because someone bumped into me!!!” Wrong answer. You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea. Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out. Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It’s easy to fake it, until you…

By Gbenga Adebambo “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education” — Albert Einstein The greatest form of disability in life is not knowing your ability. Your winning edge in life is not the degree you have acquired or the certificate you possessed, but your ability to solve problems. Whenever I interview graduates, I am not so keen on their qualifications; I am only keen on their special skills, experiences and their unique approach to problem-solving. Most of them cannot even apply the knowledge they have…

By Dr Ezra Suruma This is an article by former Finance Minister Ezra Suruma on why Ugandans will remain poor as long as they don’t control capital. One of the most blatant aims of new colonialism (neocolonialism) is to ensure that Africans are denied access and control of capital. The evidence is overwhelming. It started in 1987 when the World Bank financed consultants to do “diagnostic “ studies of locally owned banks: Bank of Uganda, Uganda Development Bank, Cooperative Bank and Uganda Commercial Bank. The findings were that all these banks were poorly managed, insolvent and candidates for restructuring, closure…

I have no idea who wrote this but it makes interesting reading & food for thought; Friends, Let me add the benefit of my time as a student and then resident in the UK– and I live in Kampala now. The first thing that I discovered about the UK- born, white, English undergraduates was that all of them did holiday or weekend jobs to support themselves–including the children of millionaires.  It is the norm over there, regardless of how wealthy their parents are. And I soon discovered that virtually all other foreign students did the same– the exception being those…

A very poor newly wedded, the young couple lived on a small farm. One day the husband made the following proposal to his wife: Honey, I will leave the house: I will travel faraway, get a job and work hard in order to come back and give you a comfortable life that you deserve. I do not know how long I will stay away, I only ask one thing, please wait for me, and while I am away, you should be faithful to me, because I will be faithful to you. His wife agreed, so the young man left. He…

I just want to drop this advice to my fellow men! I am 65 years old. My wife 56 years, and I am still married to the same woman. We have been through ups and downs and we are still together. Not that we are perfect, but we chose to keep our marriage, forgive each other, keep loving one another and stay together to train our kids. 2 of my sons are married, same as 2 of my daughters remaining one. I have 5 kids. Everybody deserves attention be it, man or woman. In marriage, women are the people that…