November is the Friday of the year, and party season is on! When we were young, this is the time we would remember to be nice so that Santa could bring us nice presents in December.

What a week this has been! I am glad I am not a parent with a child in campus

A boda-boda, whether bicycle or motorcycle, is a source of livelihood for many in Uganda. There have been suggestions to rid Kampala of these death traps, but none has taken root.

While I was growing up my mind was fed on Enid Blyton with princes and knights in shining armour turning common girls into princesses.

Today, I will be using stories to impart words of wisdom on parenting, fighting and community living.

Uganda is known as the food basket of East Africa and we are blessed with fertile soils, and an abundance and variety of foods. It seems for some, eating the fat of the land is not enough, and they have resorted to consuming human flesh. We have few mortuaries and also in some cases, witchcraft is afoot.

Did you know that indecent dressing is ‘an open invite to rapists’, at least according to Ugandan Youth Affairs Minister Ronald Kibule, who is also Mukono North MP?

Government is not a good payer even when collecting money hand over fist, thus fostering a culture of something called corruption, as the citizens struggle to make ends meet.

The Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) is carrying out a recruitment exercise throughout the country to boost their numbers, and bring in fresh blood. Our army is the best because we recruit the best of the best, and weed out puny inferior specimens.

When you hurt my brother, you can be sure my whole family will be out to seek vengeance. The police force must have subscribed to my family maxim, as they have now been urged to enforce a shoot-to-kill order on thugs who are targeting police officers and steal their guns. The Flying Squad police unit will be the enforcers.

With Jamaican reggae artists Konshens and Alain in town, I expected the leading story on the most read tabloid in the country to have something to do with escapades featuring the who’s who of Kampala in compromising positions.

Rape is about power. Rape is not about pleasure or romance. Foolhardy is the rapist who attempts to kiss his victim, most especially if she hails from a village called Kichinjaji. You can be sure the maidens in that village have not heard of Mills & Boon — romance books that propagate the myth that when a woman says no she actually means yes and wants to be “taken by force”, impregnated and deserted. In those books when the man returns a few years down the line, the woman’s heart has mellowed and she can be wooed and walked down the aisle to marital bliss.

Divorces in Uganda are heavily stigmatised and difficult to obtain. Usually, the man moves on and marries again while the woman stays celibate or gets into ‘quiet relationships’.