Uganda Heritage Sites + Stories
A joint project between the Uganda National Museum in Kampala, Uganda and York University IRLT in Toronto, Canada. Mary Leigh Morbey, Research Lead and Mary Pat O'Meara, Media Specialist - York University, Toronto; Linda Neruba, Conservator and Researcher - the Uganda National Museum, Kampala.
My Social Fund Rocks
Ricson Kiiza is proud of his Social Fund, watch as he explains why exactly.
Makerere University honours Mwai Kibaki; to build library in his name
Makerere University has unveiled a multi-billion Mwai Kibaki presidential library. The library is named after former Guild President, lecturer and former Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki.
Kibaki himself was here to launch the cash drive campaign for the construction;
Rivka Uziel talks about 20 years of Makerere University art school’s Different but One exhibition.
Rivka Uziel talks about 20 years of Makerere University art school’s Different but One exhibition.
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Uganda Documentary - Empowerment Through Art in Africa
Through Artfully AWARE, the Ugandan based AfA Africa Team continues to develop sustainable educational programs for these featured Tororo communities along with adults and children in Gulu, Northern Uganda. Please visit artfullyaware.org to learn more about their continued work in Africa.
Hilary Wallis is the founder and Executive Director of Artfully AWARE (AfA), an international not for profit organization that connects communities, collaborates with local partners and generates positive change in peoples lives through advocacy events and innovative community development projects.
Together with Ugandan artist Justin Igala, they created the Empowerment Through Art program in Uganda in 2006, with the goal of providing artistic services to members of vulnerable communities as a means of education, psycho-social care, disseminating vital public health information and enriching social and emotional development. By engaging these communities, Empowerment Through Art promoted awareness and inspired advocacy by allowing community members to share their stories with others. Organizing a touring exhibition of Ugandan artwork in the United States and Europe at schools and festivals - including a show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2006 and later as part of an event at The New Orleans Museum of Art in 2012 - Hilary also authored the system's program manual, educational materials for U.S. schools and produced a documentary telling the beginning of the Empowerment Through Art story.
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In Uganda,we are introducing the Great Lakes Dish ENSENENE PIZZA
Artistic impression of the Royal Enclosure Centre For Excellence
As a build up to the 10 years of Ekisaakaate Kya Nnabagereka, NDF is establishing a permanent home – “The Royal Enclosure Center For Excellence”; a multi-million Institute located in Ssisa, Entebbe Road with proximity to Lake Victoria. As a pace-setter, NDF’s key strategy has been to innovate and pioneer approaches that promote traditional practices while harnessing and harmonizing modern practices. The Royal Enclosure Center for Excellence shall be the first of its kind in Africa; as a unique institute that harmonizes traditional and modernity through the use of culture to develop wholesome individuals, nurture innovation, character formation and good moral values. This will be our contribution towards transformative leadership development, promotion of positive cultural practices and entrepreneurship incubation in Africa. The establishment of The Royal Enclosure Center for Excellence will not only scale up work that has been done over the last 10 years through various camps; but it will also deepen our outreach to many target groups, benefitting a myriad of constituencies through year-round trainings; expand NDF investment portfolio and interconnectedness of our social development and investment portfolios as a Foundation.
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Final year project by Ben Wokorach Makerere University
Community Museum of Acholi Traditional Music and Dances, A project inspired by the need to preserve the Rich and Diverse Acholi Traditional Music and Dances for the future Generations. The project design draws from the power of architectural space creation and the potential of social innovation to realise a facility that not only preserves Tangible Heritage, but most importantly Living Heritage that for for Decades has not been part of Museum conservation in Uganda
UNITE for the Environment: Conservation Education in Uganda - North Carolina Zoo
Join GLP Films as they visit UNITE, a conservation education initiative started by North Carolina Zoo in 2002. The UNITE program connects influential educators, like classroom teaches in Uganda, with innovative conservation curriculums, emphasizing the importance of environmental conservation to thousands of young students.
GLP Films
Founded in 2008, GLP Films is an award-winning content marketing agency dedicated to authentic storytelling within the travel industry (e.g. adventure, outdoor, food, culture, wildlife, sustainability). To date, GLP has produced and distributed 200+ videos from 30+ countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and North America. In addition, GLP provides a unique set of value-add services for global partners — content strategy, brand development, destination storytelling, stakeholder development, content marketing campaigns, and more.
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Social Innovation Academy
On 11 and 12 March, 2013, the European Commission worked together with Kennisland, Nesta, and Euclid Network on the Social Innovation Academy to bring together 30 semi-finalists of the Social Innovation Competition. The competition was launched on 1 October 2012 in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos. The two-day event in EYE Film Institute Amsterdam was aimed to support the semi-finalists to refine and strengthen their solutions. Chris Sigaloff, chair of Kennisland, and Xavier Le Mounier from the European Commission, launched the Academy.
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HIAS Uganda: Child Therapy Day Out
Forty four refugee children, all currently receiving therapy from HIAS’ trained staff, enjoyed a day out at the St. Henry recreation ground in Kampala, Uganda recently. There were numerous activities, including face painting, races, dancing competitions and a bouncy castle. “They realize they can have fun despite the many challenges they have gone through,” said Timothy Mukua, psychosocial program manager at HIAS Uganda.
Find out more about this event: hias.org/kids-day-out-uganda-video
Quick jump to Nairobi | Uganda and Kenya Vlogs
We have finished our time in Uganda and are off to explore Kenya. Our first stop is Nairobi, and to meet up with Rick's good friends!
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[Re]Form: New Investigations in Urban Form, Panel 2
Panel 2: Reforming the Discourse
Panelists: Shlomo Angel, Colin McFarlane
Moderator: Neil Brenner
[Re]FORM: New Investigations in Urban Form aims to reposition the discourse of urban form within contemporary urban theory. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s seminal text Urban Form (1970), this conference aspires to provoke new investigations and debates on urban form and its relevance in contemporary urbanizations. Specifically, by acknowledging the fluctuating conditions of political, economic, and technological contexts and practices, this conference interrogates the meanings of “form” and its role in contemporary urbanization through the agency of the design disciplines, and gauges such discourses against the debates on urban theory situated within contemporary urban conditions and transitions.
Almost half a century has passed since the publication of Urban Form by Henri Lefebvre, the urban, as he avers, is — “a place of encounter, assembly, simultaneity” — which constitutes a logical form and embodies a kind of knowledge, has been vastly defined through geographical, political and economic substances and practices ever since. Particularly in the past three decades, emerging technologies have drastically challenged the idea of urban and its form ranging in scale from the planetary to the individual. The unprecedented urban complex generally prioritizes the practices over its agencies and thus obscures the logics of the urban upon which it operates. The process of contemporary urbanization produces radical phenomena and urban objects, yet prioritizing urban form as a key instrument for contemporary urbanization remains an elusive notion. Recovering the epistemological agency of urban form is a pressing matter.
Smartphones come to Ugandan farmers' aid
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Africa has the world's fastest growing mobile phone market in the world.
Now smartphones in Uganda are helping thousands of poor farmers to track new farming technologies, treatment for their animal, weather patterns, market prices and best bargains.
As part of a special series, Al Jazeera's Malcolm Webb speaks to farmers in Lugazi in Uganda who have benefited from this technology that is accessible via a touch phone that is given to one trusted elder in every village.
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Barbara Pierce Bush of Global Health Corps Receives the 2018 Skoll Award | SkollWF
Barbara Pierce Bush of Global Health Corps receives the 2018 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
Barbara Bush is CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps (GHC), which mobilizes a global community of young leaders to build the movement for health equity. GHC was founded in 2009 by six twentysomethings who were challenged by Peter Piot at the aids2031 Young Leaders Summit to engage their generation in solving the world’s biggest health challenges. Barbara and her co-founders believe health is a human right and that their generation must build the world where this is realized.
Since that time, GHC has placed almost 1,000 young leaders from more than 40 countries with non-profit and government health organizations like Partners In Health and the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia, and the United States, developing them as creative, effective, and compassionate leaders along the way. Prior to GHC, Barbara worked in educational programming at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, where she supported design-thinking programs for high school students and faculty across the US.
She has worked with Red Cross Children’s Hospital in South Africa and UNICEF in Botswana, and has traveled with the UN World Food Programme, focusing on the importance of nutrition in ARV treatment. Barbara is a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee and the UN Global Entrepreneurs Council. She sits on the Board of Directors for Covenant House International, PSI, Friends of the Global Fight for AIDS, TB, and Malaria. She is a Draper Richards Foundation Social Entrepreneur, a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, and a fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation. In 2011, Barbara was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year, in 2013 she was recognized as one of Newsweek’s Women of Impact, and in 2015 she was named to Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business list. Barbara graduated from Yale University with a degree in Humanities in 2004.
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Uganda | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Uganda
00:01:59 1 History
00:03:51 1.1 Uganda Protectorate (1894–1962)
00:04:37 1.2 Independence (1962 to 1965)
00:05:29 1.3 The Buganda Crisis 1962–1966
00:18:57 1.4 1966–1971 (before the coup)
00:19:29 1.5 1971 (after the coup) –1979 (end of Amin regime)
00:20:41 1.6 1986–present
00:24:02 2 Geography
00:24:39 2.1 Lakes and rivers
00:25:43 3 Environment and conservation
00:26:19 4 Government and politics
00:27:03 4.1 Corruption
00:30:47 4.2 Administrative divisions
00:31:58 4.3 Foreign relations and military
00:32:40 4.3.1 International Organization Memberships
00:32:53 5 Human rights
00:35:44 5.1 LGBT rights
00:38:39 6 Economy and infrastructure
00:43:25 6.1 Poverty
00:45:54 6.2 Communications
00:46:34 6.3 Energy
00:47:08 6.4 Water supply and sanitation
00:49:04 6.5 Education
00:49:31 6.6 Health
00:52:06 6.7 Crime and law enforcement
00:52:30 7 Science and technology
00:54:11 8 Demographics
00:55:34 8.1 Languages
00:56:29 8.2 Religion
00:58:07 8.3 Largest cities
00:58:15 9 Culture
00:58:36 9.1 Sport
00:58:44 9.1.1 Basketball
00:59:04 9.1.2 Baseball
00:59:34 9.2 Media
00:59:42 9.2.1 Cinema
01:01:45 10 See also
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Uganda ( yoo-GA(H)N-də), officially the Republic of Uganda (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country (except for its borders with Lake Victoria and Lake Albert) in East-Central Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region. Uganda also lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied but generally a modified equatorial climate.
Uganda takes its name from the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south of the country, including the capital Kampala. The people of Uganda were hunter-gatherers until 1,700 to 2,300 years ago, when Bantu-speaking populations migrated to the southern parts of the country.
Beginning in 1894, the area was ruled as a protectorate by the UK, who established administrative law across the territory. Uganda gained independence from the UK on 9 October 1962. The period since then has been marked by intermittent conflicts, including a lengthy civil war against the Lord's Resistance Army in the Northern Region led by Joseph Kony, which has caused hundreds of thousands of casualties.The official languages are English and Swahili, although any other language may be used as a medium of instruction in schools or other educational institutions or for legislative, administrative or judicial purposes as may be prescribed by law. Luganda, a central language, is widely spoken across the country, and several other languages are also spoken including Runyoro, Runyankole, Rukiga, and Luo.The president of Uganda is Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who came to power in January 1986 after a protracted six-year guerrilla war.
2018 Smith School EMF: Investment and Business Development
Eric Guichard, Founder and CEO, Homestrings, Inc., hosts a policy panel with Tom Coogan, Regional Director, Anglophone Region at U.S. African Development Foundation, Brionne Dawson, Director, East and Southern Africa, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Uduak Essien, Managing Director, Project Finance Division, Export-Import Bank of the U.S.
The panel is part of the 2018 Emerging Markets Forum hosted by the Center for Global Business at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
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Chameleon architecture: Ross Langdon at TEDxKrakow
Ross is an architect with a deep sensitivity to the communities and traditions in which his projects are located. Born and brought up in rural south-eastern Tasmania, he now focuses on ecologically and socially sustainable tourism infrastructure in environmentally sensitive locations. His is currently working in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania on a number of eco-lodges and smaller cultural projects and will show us how a building can be integrated into communities on many levels.
Ross jest architektem odznaczającym się dużą wrażliwością wobec społeczności i tradycji ludzi, którzy żyją w miejscu realizacji jego projektów. Urodzony i wychowany w południowo-wschodniej Tasmanii, koncentruje się na ekologicznie i społecznie zrównoważonej infrastrukturze turystycznej obszarów zagrożonych ekologicznie. Obecnie pracuje nad projektami w Ugandzie, Rwandzie i Tanzanii. Opowie nam o wielopoziomowej integracji budynku ze społecznością, dla której jest projektowany.
Ross spoke at the third edition of TEDxKrakow which took place on 21 September 2012 at the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow. Our theme was Secret Lives as there's always more to things than meets the eye, but we so rarely take the time to look at what's really going on or what it takes to make life work. This year at TEDxKraków we looked behind the curtain of the apparently mundane and everyday to get a glimpse of some of the unexpected, fascinating, worrying, intricate and maybe even repulsive aspects of life that are usually invisible to us.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations).
Speaker's Delegation: Ethiopia, Rwanda & Turkey, April 2019 | NZ Parliament
In April 2019, Rt Hon Trevor Mallard, Speaker of the New Zealand Parliament, led a delegation to Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Turkey. The focus of the trip was on enhancing parliamentary links between legislatures and countries, while advocating for enhanced business, education and cultural ties. The trip was timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, as well as Anzac commemorations at Gallipoli. Read more:
We caught up with the Speaker and other members of the delegation to hear more about their travels:
• Hon Dr Nick Smith MP (National)
• Hon Nicky Wagner MP (National)
• Gareth Hughes MP (Green)
• Angie Warren-Clark MP (Labour)