SNAKE IN A POT

While reading today’s Daily Monitor, my attention was drawn to an article with the title ‘ Parents, Teachers Clash Over Difficult Homework Questions’.   I decided to read on and find out what the problem was.    A parent in Lwengo, a one Mr. Kato Lubega rightly insinuated that the teachers’ ambition is to embarrass them before their children because they (the parents) fail to help their children with these complex questions.    I have always wondered about this concept of sending kids home with work and then asking the parents to assist them to do it or even review and approve it.   What kind of twaddle is this?   Let’s be serious.   There has been some progress in formal education in Uganda but the level of illiteracy is still high.   Any teacher who sends their pupils home with work (let’s leave out the complex bit for now) and asks their parents to assist or review and approve it, is idle mind with no other objective than morti...

Tribute to Herbert Wamala (RIP) As we go through this life, we all meet loads of people. Some become our friends, some hate us while a few leave a long lasting legacy in our lives. To me, Herbert Wamala falls in the last category.  About 12 years older than me, he became a good friend of mine in the last years of his life.  I did not consider a social gathering complete without him.  They are people who we like because they inspire us and those we like because they make life so much easier to live.  Herbert was both to me!  I joined the Kampala Hash - a drinking club with a running problem- in 2009. I knew a few people in the group before I joined and inevitably I associated with the Hash team where most of the people I knew belonged. Team Kimeeza had friends and colleagues I knew from other spheres of life like Stephen Luswata, Richard Mwami, Martin Makumbi, Alice Gitta etc.  I naturally settled in and within a short time I had jelled with the entire t...