These are stunning.

An ode to the jackfruit

Baz's melancholic ode to Kampala fits in perfectly with a paper I'm writing right now on Museveni's politics: "I try to stifle the sense that this is a fragile beauty, that it cannot last. That one day something will happen, something will happen to bring it all crumbling down and we will be back to 1986."

by The Independent's Joseph Were

"I like the idea of the children being encouraged to ask questions. Many of us have grown up in a religion or a church where we don’t ask, we just follow what others do. Sometimes you might ask someone about their faith and they’ll say, ‘it just is’ and think that’s a good enough answer. We need to look at the pile of stones and ask, we need to tell our children to ask."

"It was scary, it was fun, it was deadly, it was beautiful. It was in essence, a coming of age. We were seeing technology in Uganda rise up to fill a gaping void and empower social change. It was the start of something wonderful, amazing, and big."

TechMasai gives Ugandan netizens a C-

Jon's thoughts on how to improve the flow of data during crisis, based on the Kampala riots.

what if Harry Potter were Ugandan?

REALLY should have used the "back up everything locally" tip when I was designing for NUPI/USAID

"I want my coffee delivered to me in a huge tin cup covered with an old red plastic plate. I want it full of the creamiest milk with coffee plucked and roasted a few kilometers away.... It’s called globalization, I am told. The integration of economies, cultures, politics and peoples around the world. I am told it’s great. I am told it’s evil. I don't know."

"I now believe more than ever that the biggest threat to media freedom is not the state but the media itself on many occassions in this country."

"Why or how you can "abduct yourself to free the abducted" is unclear. Nevertheless, come April 25th, one imagines that thousands of youngsters across the western world will be in "9 COUNTRIES. 100 CITIES. ONE VOICE," attempting to kidnap themselves."