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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
7 years
Biggest lie we African elites tell ourselves is that we are independent. There is no political freedom without meaningful economic ownership and control.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 years
You see, Boris, there are many ways you can deal with a difficult Parliament...
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
Clinton, Bush, Obama, Pence and now Biden on the same stage. Warm embraces, no name-calling, none of them jailed their predecessors. One day, Uganda, one day.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
If you wanna email me threats over my views please be brief and coherent. I donโ€™t have time to tremble in my boots while also trying to figure out whether your stupidity is acquired, hired or congenital.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
Rita, Raymond come see me in my office on Monday morning. Bring your parents or guardians.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
On the run? He canโ€™t have gone too far...
@AntiGraft_SH
Anti Corruption Unit - State House Uganda
4 years
Buganda Road Court has issued a warrant of arrest for Pastor Mondo Mugisha who is on the run. He is battling 53 counts related to obtaining money by false pretence and conspiracy to commit a felony. The accused allegedly conned pastors and private school directors over UGX 4bn.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
Uganda and Ugandans really could use some self-love and self-respect. The culture of brown-nosing every carpetbagger and charlatan who rides into town claiming to be an investor arises out of a deep well of ignorance and insecurity. A few examples:
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
First you give away tropical rainforests to cronies to grow sugarcane. Then you borrow millions of dollars to plant forests. I am losing my ability to can.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 years
Started off my day by refusing to give way to a ministerial convoy UG0111L. Attempts to drive me off the road failed. I feel so patriotic, someone pass me a medal! #StayInYourLane
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 years
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
As we drove home, with smoke still billowing and shots still ringing, my child told me she can tell the difference between a gunshot and a teargas shot. Then she added: โ€œI shouldnโ€™t know this.โ€ Oh Uganda!
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
Excellent weather in Kampala today for anyone not ordered by the President to stay indoors. ๐Ÿค“
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
Uganda could ask travellers for proof of Covid-19 vaccination instead of tests and raise its ridiculously low vaccination rate. But THEY wonโ€™t let public health stand in the way of private wealth.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
#Uganda Official death toll from Covid-19: 158 in 8 months. Official death toll from bullets fired to stop Covid-19: 37 in 03 days.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
First, some breaking news: A recently-deceased man, only identified as Gerald, suddenly returned to earth to the great shock of the mourners at his burial.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
The President has praised the media, UPC, and condemned partisan application of the law! Quick, someone find out where they are holding the real @KagutaMuseveni
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
My biggest worry isnโ€™t that Ugandans are broke. It is that Uganda might be broken.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
At this rate it is imperative that M7 shares some power with Umeme.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
Hope and prayer are not good public health strategies.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
The job ad wasnโ€™t specific, simply said experience managing hoes...
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Chaos Theory
4 years
A ex pimp is now running a multi-billion project as Ops manager. You expect her to lift farmers from poverty. Man, we joke too much in this country. Nothing is taken seriously. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿฝโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
We canโ€™t regulate Boda Bodas. We canโ€™t regulate boats. We canโ€™t regulate taxis. We canโ€™t regulate building codes. We are always an accident waiting to happen.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
Last year I investigated Ugandaโ€™s response to COVID and found serious failures. Rather than fix them, the Health Ministry covered up and deflected. Today we are paying the price in human lives.
@pmwesige
Peter G. Mwesige
4 years
Top health officials "basked in the oxygen of good publicity as patients literally chocked to death." "...the pandemic exposed tumours in the health system." Powerful storytelling. Strong explanatory journalism. Compelling investigation.๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿฝ @Kalinaki
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 years
DR Congo brokers peace between Uganda and Rwanda. When you live long you see many things!
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
A country with a policy of exporting its youth unemployment problem has a problem with a young man seeking greener pastures abroad?
@MwesigyeWalter
Walter Mwesigye
3 years
Julius Ssekitoleko is you and I, Ssekitoleko is the over 65% young people that are unemployed or under employed. Ssekitoleko needs help and support not threats and arrest. #StandWithSsekitoleko
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
โ€œMarinated in our secret sauceโ€
@FGoloobaMutebi
F. Golooba-Mutebi
3 years
And these veggies are being taken to a market to be sold?
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
Dear @PoliceUg Iโ€™ve just seen a march in Kampala to mark Israelโ€™s 70th anniversary, with your officers guiding the traffic, your brass band playing. Why donโ€™t you let the women march? #WomenLivesMatter
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
Politics is too important to be left to politicians.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
7 years
Mugabe is going to be rather upset about not being consulted about all these changes when he wakes up on Saturday afternoon.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
1 year
โ€œMake noise, make noise!โ€ he begged. Monsieur Bongo sat in what had once been a seat of power. Now it was just a chair. After years of silencing dissent and critics, Monsieur Bongo, flaccid, freckled and frightened, wanted noise. Shut up!
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 years
Kayihura was sanctioned for torture, corruption, facilitating narcos & poachers. His boss has only responded to the one thing he isnโ€™t accused of/isnโ€™t illegal โ€” investing abroad โ€” then deflected to the Opposition. Classic obscurantism.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
Ogon, we need to talk. ๐Ÿค“
@chrisatuk
Ogon
4 years
Daily Monitored #ogoncartoons
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
Meanwhile, I think those religious leaders belong to SMAU; they didnโ€™t give the birds transport.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
I refuse to bow โ€” or budge โ€” to impunity. #StayInYourLane
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 months
Kenyaโ€™s middle class youth wonโ€™t let their future be decided for them in straight setsโ€ฆ
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
A High Court judge, in UG0786J, prolly coming from the annual judgesโ€™ conference, drives down the wrong side of the road. With judges like this who needs lawbreakers?
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
M7 is such a delightful speaker on historical anthropology. Itโ€™s a pity he campaigns in poetry but governs in prose.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 years
We must, as a society, agree on certain minimum doโ€™s and donโ€™tโ€™s whatever our political differences.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 months
Kale! Gwe funa likes nga nze ndi Kireka bambuuza egaali gyenagitadde! ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
@ZeeroBrain
Useful Idiot
4 months
When you see "By Monitor Reporter" under such a headline... you just know it's Kalinaki cooking
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
Our clever plan to deal with corruption? A toll-free line. Genius!
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
Either Parliament approves money for a new wardrobe or it amends the law to extend presidential arm limits!
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
Not as much as would voluntary return of plundered wealth and an end to tax evasion and illicit flow of finance from Africa to Europe.
@BBCWorld
BBC News (World)
6 years
Can 'voluntary colonialism' stop migration from Africa to Europe?
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
A young man is executed; you see no evil, hear no evil, donโ€™t say sh*t. But ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟthe ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟthought๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟof๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟa๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟzipper๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟopening ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟand ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟyou ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟstart ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟfrothing ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟat ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟthe ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟmouth. Who grew you?
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 years
Biggest lie we African elites tell ourselves is that we are independent. There is no political freedom without meaningful economic ownership and control. Happy โ€˜Independenceโ€™ Day ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฌ
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
Love in the time of malaria.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
Why ask arriving travellers who already have -ve PCR tests to test again in a country with widespread community transmission and full hospitals? So you do what with them? Who owns these testing facilities?
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
Maybe itโ€™s because every time they won a corner theyโ€™d set up a shop?
@elayzabeth
Elizabeth Kemigisha
2 years
Do football players of Indian descent play in the English Premier League? Are they 'allowed' to? I've never heard anyone scrambling to buy a Patel or Singh not even a Rajiv during those transfer periods. Educate me ๐Ÿ˜”
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
7 years
Folks run to raise 1.5bn for a cancer machine bunker. Wankers spend 2bn on an anti-porn committee. Bonkers.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
7 years
No sir. It makes the U.S. look like the U.S. Amin was a despot but there are enough western despots, torturers and invaders to illustrate the point.
@DefendAssange
Defend Assange Campaign
7 years
Appointing an actual pliers and tongs torturer to head up the CIA makes the U.S. look like Uganda under Idi Amin.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
Asked a GoU agency for info in March 2017. Got a response an hour ago. With a broken link.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
8 months
MUSHY THREAD ALERT: A Mwiri OB I hadnโ€™t seen in >20 years looked me up when he was in town last month. We met as he headed back to airport (he, in fact, turned back, at the risk of missing his flight) and had only a few minutes together, in a mall parking lot.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
1 year
Hehe. Your OBs are retiring to play golf; you are here in Container Village looking for pesticides ๐Ÿ™„
@rkabushenga
Cde. Robert Kabushenga
1 year
. @stanbicug thanks for a wonderful evening last Friday. A fitting farewell for an accomplished man. More than anything else it was a fun time esp being able to keep @Kalinaki & @Comrade_Otoa in the background where they belong. Only later was it safe to bring them to the table๐Ÿคฃ
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
Bought these at @ShopriteUganda got home and discovered some eggs had probably hatched and crossed the aisle! Yโ€™all didnโ€™t come to play didya? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
Mediocrity, sheltered from the biting cold reality by the warm blanket of cronyism, marinated in mendacious malevolence, stymying hope, lowering generational expectations. Welcome to oblivion.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
When you finally meet one of your two regular readersโ€ฆ
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
Fasten your seatbelt, ensure your tray table is folded and your seat is in the upright position. If you know you know.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
7 years
We need to appoint a judicial commission of inquiry to find out why the inventor of the โ€˜rolexโ€™ is yet to be awarded the Nalubaale Medal!
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
9 months
I really hope no driver was harmed in the shooting of this movie!
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
#UgandaCranes needed calculators to work out the odds, now we qualify with games to play. Birthdays were the worst days, now we drink champagne when weโ€™re thirsty...
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
7 years
#Uganda gov workers unbothered by ban on mini skirts, open shoes. But the day they ban ill-fitting suits a minister will 'die with someone'!
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
You know a countryโ€™s planning is upside down when a bumper grain harvest sparks a crisis.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
Small small (hairy) protein snack and you go ratting to the coppers? Itโ€™s not like you put a forkful of mice pie in your mouse. Pussycats the lot oโ€™yer!
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
Govt is struggling to send money to vulnerable people because it has never had to give them ish.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
Nothing to fix. This failure is how the plan succeeds. For Nakasero and other private hospitals to thrive, Mulago had to die. Nairobi, Dec 1985. The Colonel. Musomese abaana. @NativeLandgrab
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
P. O. Box 9117 Kampala. If you know you know.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
โฆ @rkabushenga โฉ in the management meeting tomorrow after his boss gave him a public high-five tonight
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
THREAD: Uganda's President M7 was today declared re-elected with 5.8m votes, less than the 5.9m he received in 2016, despite 3m new voters.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
Donโ€™t bring your pets to eateries.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
Drive into Kampala and the roads are all named after colonial terrorists like Ternan, Colville, Mackinnon, et al. Local historical figures like Kabalega, Mwanga and others are absent or at the periphery.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
8 months
I swear I was impersonated! ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿฟโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿฟโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
7 years
The plates in the chapel were for eating the body of Christ. ๐Ÿค“
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 months
We had 10 years, >$75m and one job to do. We would come second in a one-horse race. Smh.
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Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
An 18-year-old school dropout from the docks in Merseyside turns up at Entebbe Airport with just $50 and gets in, no questions asked. Ugandans headed in the opposite direction, even world-famous authors, must answer a million questions and sometimes even give sputum samples!
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
Mzee says โ€œeven himโ€ he will contribute 2bn to private school teachersโ€™ Sacco. How many cows will he have to sell or is he talking about #OurMoney ?
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
Two Kenyan retailers, Nakumatt and Uchumi closed shop in Uganda. Why hasnโ€™t GoU stepped in to help local retailers like Capital Shoppers expand and fill the gap instead of waiting for Shoprite?
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
Ensi egula emilambo emeka?
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
What a sad and beautiful photograph. Sun setting on hope.
@bamulanzeki
Nicholas Bamulanzeki
6 years
End of Day 4 , mission to retrieve the boat by a crane mounted on MV Kalangala aborted , officials said the crane was weak to carry the load #LakeVictoraBoatAccident @observerug
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
Outside, the ship struck an iceberg. Inside, the choir, hoarse, hungry but seemingly indefatigable, sang on.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
9 months
I wonder, how many criminals are currently at Kololo Airstrip? ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿค“
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
7 years
Dear Ugandans, enough of the lies, violence, skulduggery & insults. Let's all work for a peaceful & prosperous country that works for all
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Daniel Kalinaki
8 months
I am thoroughly enjoying this zen moment and I hope it continues. If you can be one thing to the world today, be kind. Now wipe the tears away, smile, and hug sambarry. There. Thatโ€™s the end of my ted talk.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
9 years
You can accuse @UgandaEc of many things but it would be grossly unfair to accuse them of competence #UgandaDecides
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 months
Itโ€™s a post-modern eco bridge made of biodegradable materials and designed to blend into the landscape and, eventually, into the river below.
@mutuma_mathiu
Mutuma Mathiu ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช
5 months
@Kalinaki You have slightly better eyesight, what space age device is that which looks like a pile of firewood
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
Just discovered a way to turn ethanol from alcoholic beverages into urea for use as organic fertilizer. Need an appointment to ask for a square mile of land to invest in an industrial urinal. No, Iโ€™m not taking the piss!
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 months
Kale you be there quietly inhaling your dust in Sonde and bwepa! They tie on you goatโ€™s ears just as the leopard is preparing to hunt. Kale! ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿค“๐Ÿค“
@ZeeroBrain
Useful Idiot
4 months
Now that reads like a Headline from a Newspaper where Daniel Kalinaki works at.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
Foreign capital, tech and ideas are important and must be welcomed, but an economy without meaningful local ownership and participation is inherently unstable and unsustainable.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 years
Ba ssebo neba nyabo leelo lwakubili nga munaana mu mweezi gwa mukulukusa bitungotungo mumwaka lukumi mu lwenda kumi na mwenda. #BwobaOmanyiObaOmanyi
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Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
They say gold, coffee and tourism are the main forex earners. Most of this value is in foreign hands and natives are mostly farmhands and tour guides.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
An imp drove into a parking space I was reverse-parking into, disembarked, grinned triumphantly and walked off. A younger me wouldโ€™ve picked a fight but after seeing my friend lying in a box this morning I let it be. Donโ€™t take life too seriously.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 years
Took a long walk through my neighborhood. Counted half a dozen churches, not a single public space. Kids can pray but they wonโ€™t play?
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
To understand the underlying dynamics of Ugandaโ€™s healthcare system as seen from the eyes of a practitioner, Iโ€™d recommend The Patient, a book by the brilliant @okobusingye
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
4 years
Ugandan public and civil servants from tomorrow...
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
2 years
Mathematics is to many journalists what the cross is to vampires.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 years
The Best Useless Newspaper award goes to....
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
6 years
African dictators did not liberalise their broadcast spaces out of a love for free media. They did it out of a fear of coups.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
3 years
This is how traditional healers start...
@rkabushenga
Cde. Robert Kabushenga
3 years
Folks, lately some of you have been asking me to mentor. I think we can do this here. I am happy to do a #40DayMentor during lockdown. U can start a TL on a subject u want my insights, I will answer each one. No politics, crime, love,diet or medical stuff. Just life. No insolence
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
5 years
Police brutality towards pictures showing police brutality. Canโ€™t make this stuff up!
@MKSerumaga
Mary Serumaga
5 years
Policeman vandalises Uganda Press Photograpers Award-winning pics. As in previous year, winners depicted police brutality.
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@Kalinaki
Daniel Kalinaki
8 years
Meanwhile to the MTN chap who let the Cranes sponsorship deal go to Airtel, come with your parents to the CEO's office.
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Daniel Kalinaki
7 years
If M7 wants to know how to use oil money well he should go to Norway, not Equatorial Guinea.
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