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Researchers say that Uganda agriculture production if exploited full is enough to feed the entire sub Saharan Africa current population for half a century. That is just an example of how lack of modern farming technologies and failure to embrace genetically modified crops has impoverished African farmers for decades and studies have shown that more than half of them have never made any profit from their farming efforts. The low level of agricultural modernization in sub Saharan Africa has resulted from low level of industrialization and the disconnection between the two and to date no country including South Africa, the most sophisticated and largest economy. For many decades, African governments have undertaken enormous and numerous programs to develop and sustain productivity but the same cannot be said when it comes to industrialization that has failed to take off in much of the continent with exception South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt. The rest are wanna be industrializ...

There is no secret with my love affair with Melbourne, the best and greatest city in the world as I have argued in the past on this blog, the city has inspired my life .Australia is a nation defined by culture, history and diversity in its people. It escaped economic recession in 2010 that hit other western world economies because its success is determined by how healthy, capable and smart Australians are. In an article that I published a couple of months ago ,I cited how libraries spread all over Melbourne helped inspire my thinking and the same could be said of Uganda. The country’s progress has taught me that despite devastation and deprivation during the colonial period inflicted on innocent Africans as noted by Martin Meredith in his book about state of Africa   just like other parts of the continent,Uganda has made economic, social and political progress like no other country that has ever suffered more than a quarter century of political turmoil that came t...

Few weeks ago, a blud told me how he’s trying to quit Facebook and after few days he was off the world’s largest social networking site by numbers. To be blunt, Facebook is rudimentary and very old fashioned and in my opinion nothing exquisite has been developed since 2010. A couple of mobile operators I cannot mention for legal reasons announced recently that they will start to offer Facebook access in multiple languages in Africa and they will start with their prepaid customers, free of charge but one wonders if there are no hidden charges. We all know Wikipedia access if offered data free by French Telkom giant Orange but still more than 80% of those who visit the site in Africa access through paid data platforms.  According to the network operators, Facebook on their subscribers mobile phones using either the browser or downloaded app, will be able to view or upload photos, post status updates, comment and write on walls, and message contacts in selected languages....

The time of the year when majority of people trash their problems temporarily and log in their brains and focus to festive season mood is here. Xmas is tomorrow and 2014 is nearly upon us, and yesterday I asked 15 of my closest friends what resolutions they will set for their businesses. The ones in Australia, US and UK told me they expect growth while two friend who live in Tokyo and Seoul were less optimistic and they believe good news won’t come without pain. A blud based in Melbourne is working on preparations and strategic planning for next year. A restaurant owner in Munich, Germany who hosted me three years ago, and who happens to be a business mentor back is focusing on his staff with aim to increase their happiness among staff. Another plan for Bavarian blud is mentoring his staff to increase empowerment and even allow them to form a union that can be used as a channel to air their grievances and act as custodian for employee profit sharing kitty. I was amazed by ...

Consumers lives in the East African region festive season could be put at risk if reports emanating from sections of social media are to be believed. They should not the only worry over the use of antibiotics in the breeding of fish in private fish farms where traces of mercury have been found but also the use of HIV AIDS treatment drugs known as anti retroviral drugs that are being sold by unscrupulous patients who obtain them for free in Government hospitals. Without naming a country to avoid trolls and haters feasting on my name this X-mas, a country in East Africa was reported to have HIV patients that was using their medicine to brew hard liquor which are still being sold to slum dwellers. Security agencies in the region must be racking their brain over the same issues that could affect millions of East Africans health in the future. Illegal operations, vendors and greed for quick rich are rife in the region and the new shocking revelations if proved true is yet anoth...