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I thank the Katikkiro, Owek. @cpmayiga, for hosting our latest visitor and international dancehall sensation, @spiceofficial at Bulange this morning. The Prime Minister beguiled us with stories of the 900 year-old @BugandaKingdom_. What a rich and powerful heritage! Spice was also given a name from the rhinoceros clan. This is the way to welcome our visitors. To our wider creative and events industry, experienced in bringing international talent into Uganda, please follow suit. Tourism is everyone’s business. Your platforms can extend beyond entertainment; they are gateways into Uganda. Every artist who sojourns here should experience the essence of this land and leave as an ambassador of #ExploreUganda. At @TourismBoardUg, we are ready to partner. When global talent experiences Uganda, the world discovers it. Let us showcase the best of Uganda, one event at a time.

I had the pleasure of hosting the Jamaican Queen of Dancehall, SPICE, at the Kingdom Headquarters, Bulange. Her presence in Uganda is a powerful reminder of how global cultural icons can elevate our visibility on the world stage. As she prepares to perform this Saturday, 9th May, at the Lugogo Cricket Oval, I encourage Ugandans to come out and experience her craft. Beyond the stage, her collaboration with the Uganda Tourism Board @TourismBoardUg and the Buganda Heritage and Tourism Board @TourBugandaUG to tour and showcase Uganda’s beauty is commendable. Today’s visit to the Kasubi Royal Tombs is part of that meaningful effort. When influential figures like Spice choose Uganda, they do more than perform, they tell our story to the world, attract global attention, and open doors for tourism, culture, and investment. This is the power of cultural exchange, positioning Uganda as a destination of choice. #ExploreUganda

Come check out our @AfDB_Group April Newsletter! Want to know about NAFAD? Take a look! Together we construct the New African Financial Architecture for Development! #Agenda2063 #AfCFTA #PIDA - The horizon is brighter for continental flagship initiatives.

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That weight in your belly is not all fat

I am a proud psychologist and I will say this based on global and national facts. Psychology is not a supporting discipline; it is the operating system of every sector that depends on people.

Kabushenga’s Thoughts A Life of Exercise Folks, this is for those of you whose parents are my generation or older. This morning along with my guys from the @mutungomadbus I did the 25km segment of the @KyambogoRun. After that I went to my spin class, for another challenge where we are doing 26 classes for the month of May. My guys in both communities keep asking why I am doing this to myself. They think I am overdoing it & punishing myself. The answer is simple. A life of exercise like the one I live, is a hack against chronic illness. It significantly reduces chances of this happening by a wide margin. If it occurs, a person in good physical shape has a better fighting chance of curing or at least obviating the worst effects. So what is my point? It is cheaper to do this than pay for medical treatment for chronic illness. So rather than dealing with the burden of fundraising for this & pain of nursing parents that are ill. If in fact you get your parents to switch to a life of exercise and change thier relationship with food, you will avoid this. I am not suggesting a crazy regime like mine. No. Just a daily walk, a cycling class, a nutrition approach that improves one’s metabolic health, good sleep, good content(reading books) & good company, will save you from stress of what I described earlier. The medical option should be complete last resort and you can do this. Share what I have posted with your folks. Have a lovely weekend

Now that we’ve all had a few days to process the hype surrounding the proposed 650,000 bbl/d refinery in East Africa 🇰🇪 🇺🇬 🇹🇿, let’s take a long, hard look in the mirror. [1] Funding Gap: Where will Kenya 🇰🇪, Uganda 🇺🇬, and Tanzania 🇹🇿 raise the ~ $20 billion needed to build this facility when they already spend more on debt servicing than on healthcare or education? Just as critical - can they raise that capital, cheaply? [2] Diplomacy Deficit: Relations between these three countries are prickly on most days. Can nations that block agricultural imports, incinerate day-old chicks and limit the reach of each other’s airlines really cooperate on a project of this magnitude? [3] Successor Risk: With potential changes in government in Kenya 🇰🇪 (2027) and Uganda 🇺🇬 (2031), will the successors of William Ruto and Yoweri Museveni prioritize regional interests over national ones? “When @AlikoDangote built his refinery in Nigeria, he was essentially dealing with one country,” says @wangarikebuchi, Founder & MD at @ExpertiseGL . Given the clashing interests involved here, she warns that “discussions are going to be much more intense than what was faced in Nigeria.” What trade-offs are East African policymakers willing to accept? Do they have the policy discipline to execute this without wasting billions in taxpayer dollars, as they have in other, smaller infrastructure projects?

The rules that governed the global order for decades are being dismantled. Trade frameworks are fracturing, the dominance of the dollar is being questioned, and the old aid relationships no longer reflect the world as it is. For Carlos Lopes this moment of disruption need not to be a threat to the continent. See CNBC Africa 👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=vxlxe_…

Walking through the compound that houses the Kasubi Tombs, the main path leads to what should be an entrance. But it ends at one of the layers of thatch covering the 25-foot structure known as Muzibu Azala Mpanga. It looks like a giant basket turned upside down. If it weren’t for the rows of shoes laid neatly outside, you’d never know there was a way in. cnn.it/3QeESJn

“The drunk and angry people are most honest than those in church”.- President Boko Duma of Botswana 🇧🇼

African Development Bank Backs New Push to Overhaul Africa’s Financing System "Economist Carlos Lopes warned that Africa’s longstanding development challenges cannot be solved within existing financing models." africabrief.substack.com/p/african-deve…

Kabushenga’s Thoughts Doing Fulfilling Things Today, I took a group of people to my coffee farm. It was eclectic mix of those who want to follow in the footsteps of my farming journey and others who simply wanted a weekend out on a farm. I had stopped doing this six years ago. Then I gave a talk on coffee to a Business Fireside Chat at the Bight of Benin Restaurant in Kampala last February. By the end of it, there was a push for me to do this again. I agreed. And so it happened. What we do on these tours is to explain the complexities of farming coffee. I always want to make sure that by the end of it all, there is no illusion about the business of growing coffee. Part of the problem is the positive financial performance of the coffee sector . The perception now is that there is a lot of assured quick and big money to be made. This is false. And when I respond to the curious, I make a point to disabuse them of this misconception. The other way I do this is by giving my visitors a real experience of some the work we do on the fair. So they understand what it actually takes to grow coffee and take it to market. On this occasion I took them through the tedium of picking ripe coffee cherries. After some walking over the whole morning, they only managed a harvest of 6 kgs. They were tired. My point was made. The work of growing coffee to the point where it can be sold, is tough. Eleven years ago this week, I planted the first coffee seedling at @RugyeyoFarmLtd. Over the years I have understood that while coffee farming is an exacting undertaking, it is the one segment of the value chain where most Ugandans can participate for financial return. It is the only opportunity open to us as local Ugandans to generate and capture value. The other segments have prohibitively high financial barriers to entry. Even where public investment is made like Tanzania did in secondary processing of ready to drink coffee, it has only benefitted factory owners or state employees who run the government outfit. Farmer incomes remain unchanged, in fact they bring their coffee green beans for sale in the lucrative market of Uganda. In Uganda, the farmer pockets 85% of the international market price. The way to improve farmer turnover is public investment in farmer ability to get hogs yields and improve quality. This higher turnover will translate into taxable income for the Treasury. Margins can be better if some of the costs like fertilizer and water can be subsidized. This will pay for itself through ability to employ more people. You would think these things would be obvious. But there is the old adage about the prevalence of common sense. So people like me will do what we can. To grow our coffee and mentor those who have the courage to try this. It is the perfect celebration and payback for being a part of this fulfilling coffee farming journey

It’s was a great day at the farm with a big man Rob Thanks Mr @rkabushenga for the opportunity,lessons learned,time to act✍🏾

For nearly 80 years African leaders have dreamt, talked, planned, and officials have shown maps and Power Points of these Trans-African Highways. We are still waiting for them to come true. I am told we must continue believing and hoping.

A new United Nations 🇺🇳Secretary General will ​be elected later this year for a five-year term starting on January 1, 2027. There are currently 4⃣ declared candidates. Next week the SG race reaches a pivotal moment with the kick off of two days of "interactive dialogues" with the candidates at UNHQ in New York. Here is how it will work⬇️ The President of the General Assembly, Annalena Baerbock, will convene the interactive dialogues. Each of the four current candidates will have 3 hours to take questions from civil society and UN Member States who request to address each candidate(s). This will take place in the Trusteeship Council Chamber. Each candidate will have 10 minutes for an opening statement to lay out their vision for the UN followed by the Q&A portion. The President of the General Assembly has suggested the discussion be focused on the three pillars of the UN - peace and security, development, and human rights. ⬇️Here are the time slots for each candidate⬇️ ⚠️Tuesday April 21 10am - 1 pm - Michelle Bachelet - Chilean, and two term former President of Chile, former head of UN Women and previously High Commissioner for Human Rights. Nominated by: Chile, Brazil, Mexico. (Chile later withdrew nomination) 3 pm - 6 pm - Rafael Grossi - Argentine and currently Director General of IAEA. Nominated by: Argentina ⚠️Wednesday April 22 10am - 1 pm - Rebeca Grynspan - Costa Rican and Secretary General of UN Trade and Development (she recently took a leave to run for SG) and former Vice President of Costa Rica. Nominated by: Costa Rica. 3 pm - 6 pm - Macky Sall - Senegalese and former President of his country. Nominated by: Burundi After each candidate have completed their interactive dialogue they will be given an opportunity to take make remarks and take questions from the media at the UN GA media stakeout area. The dialogues will be broadcast live on UNTV webtv.un.org/en All dialogues will have live interpretation in all six UN official languages Regional rotation? While it is not written in the UN Charter, rotating the UN Secretary General by region has become an important informal rule and powerful diplomatic precedent that ensures different parts of the world take turns leading the organization. It is currently the turn for the Latin America and Caribbean group; hence why three of the four candidates are from Latin America. A woman? Since the founding of the UN in 1946 there have been nine Secretary General's. None have been women. There is a big push for a woman this time around. "It's time," is the public and private thinking by many diplomats / UN staff who walk the halls. Could more candidates run? Short answer is, yes. While the President of the General Assembly has set an informal deadline of April for candidates to be nominated, nothing prevents a "late entry" into the race. Official UN website on selection and appointment of the next Secretary General ⬇️ un.org/en/sg-selectio…

STOP LAMINATING IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS “My certificate is safe, I have laminated it.” Safe… but legally risky Many people don’t know this: once you laminate a document, you may have reduced its value in court. The law (Evidence Act 2011) which is the law that governs admissibility in court prefers original documents B. Lamination seals the paper — no one can check if anything was added, removed, or altered C. Courts and lawyers may not fully rely on it if authenticity is questioned D. Forensic examination (ink, signature, alterations) becomes almost impossible Let's look at this scenario: You take a laminated agreement or receipt to court… The other party says, “This has been tampered with.” Court looks at it and says, “We can’t properly examine this because it is laminated That one becomes a problem Even banks, embassies, and some offices may reject laminated originals outright. So what should you do instead? A. Keep your original documents in a file or waterproof folder B. Make photocopies and laminate those if you like C Obtain Certified True Copies (CTC) for official use Finally Lamination protects from dirt… but can expose you to legal trouble. Don’t protect your document and destroy its value at the same time Law is EMOTIONLESS © Emmanuella Chinenye Ogwale

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left. Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops. If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time. The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy. They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand. The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker. The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.