Frank Manyindo Jr

Naye Ugandans on X mulina ebibanyiiza mwana… so you expect people to come to your mukolo but not post you?? In 2026?? Where people even post the dead laying in caskets uhm 🚶🏾‍♂️

Most of you will never read Jotham Tumwesigye's autobiography. So, let me share with you a bit of it. In 1968, Yoweri Museveni, then a student at Dar es Salam University, returned to his alma mater, Ntare School, at the invitation of the school's History Society, to give a talk. When he took the stage, he strongly condemned European colonialism and asked whether there was anything a European headteacher could do that an African one couldn't. The talk caused a big stir amongst students and the mostly-European teaching staff. The headteacher, Mr Crichton, called an abrupt assembly and told the students that no society should ever again invite the Museveni to the school. If you think I am making it up, find a copy of Jotham Tumwesigye's book and read it. With the benefit of nearly 60 years of hindsight, can we say that Museveni was right in saying that there was nothing a European headteacher could do that an indigenous one couldn't? Well, let me state what is perhaps more obvious: there are things indigenous headteachers have done that a European one couldn't have done. A gentleman whose time at one of our secondary schools overlapped with those of three indigenous headteachers recently told me, perhaps with a bit of hyperbole, that each of the three headteachers admitted, through the backdoor, a large number of students from his home county. Maybe there was a bit of hyperbole, but, again, maybe there was not. The assertion certainly doesn't defy credibility. And yet, if it was made about a European headteacher of a Ugandan school, it would defy credibility. After all, why would the village mates of the European want to come to a Ugandan school? And so, there are things indigenous headteachers do that a European one couldn't have done. And I guess we can flip this around and say that there are things European headteachers did that indigenous ones cannot. Museveni wasn't looking at the full picture. His focus was perhaps limited to the routine administrative tasks of the headteacher's office. He didn't see the cultural setting. When Museveni returned from the bush and established a state-owned newspaper, he put a Mzungu at the helm of it. And the newspaper actually did very well, until the Mzungu was replaced with an indigenous Ugandan. It was again not an issue of skills; it was that there were Ugandan things that the indigenous man could get entangled in which William Pike, being a foreigner, couldn't get entangled in. It was that there were Ugandan attitudes to authority ("cadreship") that the new man had, which Pike, given his cultural background, couldn't have had. In the end, we cannot escape from the gravity of the culture of our upbringing. I know some will say that New Vision went down because of the internet, not management. But I am not even talking about sales. I am talking about, for instance, the difference between the quality of Nagenda's writing and that of the man who replaced him, Ofwono Opondo. If you can't see that difference, then I can't make you see my point. The New Vision of the 2000s was a high-quality newspaper. If it had the same quality today, and was performing as poorly on the market as it is doing now, then it would be enough to talk about the internet. As it is, we have to look beyond the Internet and ask whether the quality would have declined to the degree that it has if the Mzungu, with his detachment from Ugandan culture, were still at the helm. Attending a Ugandan educational institution in the 1950s and 1960s was similar to attending a British institution of the same level. The teachers/lecturers that gave you lessons were more or less the same as those you would have found in Britain. The Crichtons had received the exact same training as the teachers they left back in Europe. Can we say the same now? Can we say that attending a school or university in Uganda and attending it in Europe yield the same outcome? Why then do African leaders send their children to European institutions?

@Emily_660 gay

A forex trader received Shs 65m on his account in Eco Bank. He withdrew Shs 36m. Later, when he returned for more, the manager at the bank's Oasis Mall branch locked him in the toilet and called the police. He took the bank to court & lost. @BbegMedia bbegmedia.com/a-forex-trader…

@SharomeSharon @AaronsMwesigye the fraudster. It's a long story that wasted my time and upto now I've been trying to clear my name on my street but luckily I found out later that the fraudster was seated just near my work place and he could listen clearly.

@SharomeSharon @AaronsMwesigye Some are but the majority aren't. In all honesty how can an agent whose been stationed at that location for quite a number of years do something stupid and reckless like that. It happened to me a month back the customer took me to police I had to prove that I didn't know....

Just went to MTN mobile money outlet, read my number for withdrawal, received a prompt, entered PIN & balance deducted, & the MOMO agent claims didn't withdraw. She has no transaction yet I have a successful withdrawal? Do we have ghosts around agents? On Easter😭

How to punish a woman the right way: 1. Stay calm. Never explode.

I got custody of my little sister when she was 13. She’s 23 now. Yesterday she texted me, “Check your bank. And don’t argue.” 😭 I opened it… and she sent money for groceries. Said, “Buy something nice too. Not just bills.” Ever since she started working, she randomly sends rice deliveries to the house, pays the internet before I even notice it’s due, shows up with takeout on nights she knows I’m tired. I never ask. I don’t expect it. She just does it. Last week I saw her fixing the electric fan for our younger cousins, teaching them how to budget their allowance, moving through life like someone who learned responsibility early. And she did. Because we grew up together. Two kids pretending to be strong. Two kids figuring it out without a manual. So let me applaud us quietly. I was a teenager playing parent. She was a child forced to grow up fast. But somehow… we didn’t break. We built something. And we made it.

Ah, but remember, they live in a “full democracy” and we live in a “dictatorship”. 
I’m sure the people who make the freedom and democracy indexes will be updating them immediately.

I remember how my mom always sings Praises to my dad and always making him feel like a king.. he will just be smiling and frowning to look tough 😂.. but at the end of the day he always does the sweetest things for her... FEMINISTS don't even know that being submissive and feminine means you have control over your man ... they're so d^mb that they think challenging or f!ghtin a man is the only way to have control

This story and headline is a perfect example of how racist politics and narratives are subtly deployed in media. Blink and you miss it. On Thursday, a man killed four children in an attack inside a nursery school in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on Thursday. It was the most horrific attack on a kindergarten school in Uganda in recent memory. The attacker “brutally stabbed and killed four juveniles,” with a knife police said. Nearly all Uganda media reports said the murderer used a knife. However, in AP’s telling, he became a “machete wielding” attacker. It doesn’t make the tragedy any less, but the the word "machete" often carries cultural baggage in Western (and sometimes global) media framing. It often evokes images of chaotic violence in tropical or African settings –think the "wild savage" trope from colonial-era storytelling –more readily than a "knife" does for similar attacks elsewhere. And thus it conjures up an image of Kampala, or Uganda for that matter, as a place with menacing “natives” walking around with deadly machetes, rather than an individual who might be been mentally ill. Surprising how strong the instinct to fall back on these tropes remains.

is my culture a joke to you

I think this is the same issue Mutuzo was trying to say to you about why he blocked your bachelor friend. He was harrassing her after rejection. But you see how you're triangulating since you're now experiencing the same thing?

We are witnessing the NRM/A’s last line of defense – Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi. I recently visited incarcerated legislator, Muwanga Kivumbi at Kitalya Prison. As you can imagine, we had an un-moderated mini political talk-show. He was in good spirits – gave me this brilliant analysis. As member of the Uganda Young Democrats in the 1990s, he noted (I’m paraphrasing): “In 1995, when we went to campaign, the PEASANTS would chase us from their villages, singing the goodness of NRA/Yoweri Museveni. "In the 2000-2016 interval, the peasants were thoroughly disappointed. We started battling with CADRES and the NRM elite (David Mafabi, Mwenda, Man of Ideology, Tony Owana). "2016- onwards, it is the Deep State (SFC, JATT, CMI). They have to directly defend the NRM/A. While they are so lethal, and violent, they are the last line of defence, and there is nothing after them.

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Recently, while visiting @kizzabesigye1 at Luzira Prison, I met Eddie Mutwe with his wife Rhonah and their four young children. The children ran around him, laughing, holding on to every moment. I had to steady myself, hiding my tears so they wouldn’t see. This is the human cost of injustice that @MordecaiMuriisa reminds us of.

Reducing what goes on in a boy’s head on his birthday to fake maturity is an evidence to how insensitive the other gender can be to a boy, many times even in relationships. For boys, a lot of expectations are attached to age While birthday is a call for studio photoshoot for some for many boys, new age is a reminder of the apartment of their own that they should have had It’s a reminder that they are getting too old to be where they’re financially, academically and relationship wise etc On a normal day a boy could just sit and start thinking of how to move forward in life, that thinking is more intense on a birthday So if they don’t send a picture of themselves as broadcast to all contacts on WhatsApp group for a repost, it’s not a flex They are grateful for life, but when they have something truly worth celebrating they won’t hold back It’s not fake maturity, we are usually on a date with reality and reality is not friendly.

If it's such a flex u won't be announcing it looking for validation online... Men are easy to get when all they're after from u is just sex... You can never bag a husband if you think you're all that.. because at the end of the day the man is the one who proposes and even pays your dowry ... Keep making excuses as you're getting older.. we'll all be here when you ask where all the good men are

They've created a song for Man Utd too 😂, wait for Bruno's part 🥶🔥