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Jazz with Isaiah posted on August 22, 2011 - 8:08pm
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When one must move on posted on August 15, 2011 - 9:02pm
After over a decade of wooing listeners with her distinctive voice, former Capital FM news anchor Patricia Okoed Bukumunhe is moving on. Dennis D. Muhumuza divulges what made her exceptional. After 14 years at the helm of news presentation on radio, maybe it was about time Patricia Okoed Bukumunhe left, but one sure thing her ardent fans are going to miss is her distinctive voice. She joined 91.3 Capital FM as a first-year university student (1997), starting off as a weekend anchor/reporter, and because of the zeal and fastidiousness she poured into her job, it didn’t take long for the towering anchorwoman to scale the ranks to news editor and staff presenter.
Finding unity in music and dance posted on August 15, 2011 - 8:40pm
Milton Wabyona, founder of Uganda Heritage Roots, an organisation that uses Ugandan traditional music, dance and folklore to rehabilitate street children, believes that nothing unites people like music and dance, writes Dennis D. Muhumuza A resolve to make it against all the odds is never in vain. That’s the conviction you get after hearing Milton Wabyona’s life story. It’s a story of a boy who lost his parents as a child and whose struggles made him realise early that to excel would propel him to a better destiny.
Literature is his weapon against child sacrifice posted on August 15, 2011 - 8:25pm
He would have been an expert in the field of fisheries, but Oscar Katumwa felt he could be of better use to his society if he used his creativity to fight some of the evils like child sacrifice, writes Dennis D. Muhumuza He may not be a celebrity even by Ugandan standards but Oscar “Ranzo” Katumwa is hard to ignore. There’s much to say about a man who trained in fisheries only to end up selling cloths and turning words into money, but you’re reading about him today because of a nobler cause: using creative literature to eliminate child sacrifice in Uganda!
A time to read Uganda posted on August 15, 2011 - 8:15pm
DENNIS D. MUHUMUZA The question that has long confounded Uganda’s literary community is why home literature, which is an expression of our identity, continues to be relegated on the national school curriculum in favour of the likes of Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice among other foreign works. 
The joys and pains of travelling at night posted on August 15, 2011 - 8:01pm
Thankfully, night travel shields you from the sight of saliva dribbling from neighbours’ mouths and when the snoring begins, you plug your earphones in the right place to block that unpleasant noise, writes Dennis D. Muhumuza I love night travel. It’s dark inside the bus and the road is not as busy as daytime. I love sitting by the window and opening it a little so the fresh air outside can gush in and blow tender kisses all over my face. There’s no beauty like the heavenly firmament so I get to peep at the sky and watch the radiant stars break-dance to the rhythm of accelerating tyres on the tarmac.
Bright’s optimism has brightened his life posted on August 15, 2011 - 7:29pm
The blight circumstances of his upbringing may have robbed him of many bright moments, but today, nothing can stop Bright Ntakky Arinaitwe from cheering up the lives of those he encounters, writes Dennis D. Muhumuza
As women excel, where are the male writers? posted on August 15, 2011 - 7:09pm
DENNIS D. MUHUMUZA The news of Ugandan writer Beatrice Lamwaka getting short-listed for the 2011 Caine Prize for African writing has generated excitement on social networking sites with more women lavishing praise on her for making women proud, and others boldly prophesying that she’ll on July 11 step into the shoes of Sierra Leone’s Olufemi Terry who scooped the prestigious award last year.
Lamwaka: Our Caine Prize nominee posted on May 16, 2011 - 12:36pm
By DENNIS D. MUHUMUZA It was February 2009. The excitement was palpable in the Femrite boardroom! Beatrice Lamwaka had just received good news from South Africa; she had just been short-listed for the Pen/Studzinski Literary Award, for her short story, The Star in my Camp.
Julius Sseremba: Writing is who I am posted on May 4, 2011 - 10:16pm
He might have read chemistry at university, but writing is where this talented man’s heart is, writes Dennis D. Muhumuza.