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Writing Shouldn’t be your sidekick- Uganda’s Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

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A master of his art, a writer, and a creative in all forms of mental creativity that refers to himself as just a guy who promotes African Literature in all spheres, and Co-founder of an organization that fronts African Literature, promotes the arts through criticism.

So who is Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire?

This is always a hard question to answer. I will just say that I am one of three co-founders of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, a nonprofit that promotes the arts, especially African literature, through Writivism.

When did it occur to you that you are a writer?

I am hesitant to identify myself as a writer. A writer of academic and journalistic work, yes, a creative writer, no. Writers are human beings who have novels, plays, and collections of poetry published. I have none of those. I am only a promoter of African Literature who sometimes writes academic essays and journalistic reviews and interviews writers.

Where does your inspiration lie?

Problems that beg for solutions, which means all problems are inspiring. They give one a reason to work.

They say that if you want to hide something from and Africa hide it in a book. Do you think this is still the case?

It has never been the case. I want to look at a book as an image for a story. Stories are not all written. There are oral stories. There are written stories. And there are stories that are both written and oral. Africans, Ugandans, human beings have always consumed literature, stories in whatever form, written or oral.

Writivism what does it even mean? Tell us more about this initiative.

Writivism is about the promotion of African Literature produced and consumed on the continent. We hold workshops in various cities on the continent, connect emerging writers to established ones to be mentored, run an annual short story prize, publish annual anthologies, run a schools programme and an annual literary festival in Kampala.

There is a lot of information being written. How shall we make Ugandans read all this information with all the things competing for their attention?

We need to stop thinking of reading as the only way to consume information. Film is important. Music is as well. Oral literature is as important as written literature.

What is your message to Ugandan writers?

They should be pro-active. There are many opportunities, they should grab them. They should work hard too. Take writing as seriously as lawyering, doctoring, engineering and other professions and vocations are treated. Then it will pay. If taken as a part-time, side-kick, it won’t work. Imagine if being a lawyer, doctor, engineer etc. was considered as a side thing, it would not pay as much. Our work, us who promote writing and writers will be easier when we have excellent work being produced, to promote.

Meet Peter Benhur Odokonyero Nyeko, this incredible Jack of all trades

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To catch up on the story, This is Uganda had a chat with Peter Nyeko.

What is your favorite dance?

I prefer doing the ballroom dances, they are ten dances and I love to dance all of them. Even when they are in intervals of 2 minutes and they last 20 minutes or even when they last an hour. The ball room dances are Tango, Cha Cha, Samba,….

If a person wanted to learn to dance these ball room dances, which school in Uganda would you recommend?

It really depends on what exactly one wants to learn, but often, before social events, there are dances classes at National theatre, Cayenne on Tuesdays, Jazzville on Sundays and at Inmotion dance studio. But if someone wants to go professional, they should enroll for classes at the National theatre or at Inmotion dance studios.

So, you also do write and paint, what exactly do you write about and where do you publish your work, more so do you have any paintings in any gallery?

As a qualified aerospace engineer, electrical engineer, banker, and teacher, I write about many things across a wide variety of topics. I write about the environment and sustainability, I write about renewable energy and I also do poetry mainly in French Spanish, and Arabic. Currently, I haven’t been invited to write for any newspaper but my works are displayed widely and I am simply a freelancer.

When he is not ballroom dancing, he is working at Bencolly a  Benconolly is a holding company with many ventures within a partnership between (Ben) and his sister Conolly, all based on a childhood business.

What is Benconolly all about?

It all began in Kitgum when I was passionate about work, When I was young I had a stall of sweets just outside my house. I also have a theory of making the world a better place one person at a time, I also think that the love to find solutions to problems and being focused on a goal is all a driving force.

“Under the Benconolly brand, we have; Agribusiness under Dream Shuttles Commodities company. If you are to recall earlier on, dream shuttles was a transport company for 5 years but when the license expired we didn’t renew it but opted to diversify into sustainable agriculture and rural development. Therefore what dream shuttles does now is to collect agricultural and forestry waste from farmers, dry the waste and get it pelletized and used to generate electricity and also in the place for charcoal and the excess pellets exported. Our industrial park north of Murchison is where all this work is being done, we generate 32 kilowatts in a district with no electricity. We have just acquired a license to add 20 megawatts to the national grid by 2017 under Mandulis Energy which fronts sustainability of the environment.

How many households are you currently supplying electricity to?

Currently, we are not yet distributing electricity but we are having mass training, training the locals how to run the power station for a period of more than 6 months before we start distributing electricity.

We shall distribute electricity to 500 households which equates to 5000 people and an extra 500 households each year.

There is enough biomass in Uganda to create enough power from agricultural wastes with some pellets being exported to Europe and Asia.  Biomass is capable of giving us 10 times the revenues oil will give us every year at only 10% of the investment needed in the oil industry.

What other ventures is Benconolly mired into?

Under Education, we have Kampala Diplomatic School where I am the founder.

Under Engineering, we have Electronics & machinery Co.

Under Finance and consultation, we have BPL for asset finance, BL for consulting, ASC licensed for Financial advisory, and Theophilus for Real Estate Investment.

All these are mainly UK-based, and in Uganda only available on the advisory side because many Ugandans are afraid to venture across boundaries.

Under infrastructure ventures, we have Mandulis energy and  Benconolly Industrial Park Project which embraces the three sustainability pillars; environment, community, and economics lying on 750 acres in Nwoya Northern Uganda.

Awesome! Many people are blaming the economic discourse on the plunging political state of our country and many have gone ahead to call it the ultimatum of political idiocy, how has this affected business?

I will not blame the current economic status on politics, at least not now. I think we should blame all this on the lack of sustainable ambition and limited integrity within the populace, politics is simply a mirror image of what we are as a society, but I do have hope in a better Uganda. I don’t think there are still 5year olds running around because of war and the hope we had as we ran, is still the hope we have now and tomorrow. That’s why when I see a kid, I look at him as a grandfather because of that hope, a future of hope and a hopeful future.

At Kampala Diplomatic school, you have kids from 2-18 and Uganda is the youngest country in the world what is your way forward for the young are the hope we have?

Yeah, and we are soon starting the 1st year of university in about 2 years affiliated with various universities in the UK. I see so much potential in the children of Uganda, given the right tools to be the best. So we try to achieve this by keeping the classes small, allowing the pupils to think and encouraging them to always ask why & why & why.

We teach them the opportunity and creation in working hard- You take 1 seed and drop it in the ground, come back after 3 months and you have 3600 seeds, such is the power. So we teach them to think beyond the 6 months or the 6 years, we teach them to think long term as we impart in them the skill to believe in themselves.

Olee Uganda: Lary Chary in Praise of His Country

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Undeniebly Uganda is gifted by nature, by beauty and by talent. And  as you have probably heard many times, Sir. WInston Church Hilll was awed by her beauty and named her the pearl of Africa. Yes she carries scars but a rose by any name is a rose.  Larry Chary  a young Ugandan has no doubt about this.  He sings about Uganda with  with so much pride and admiration.

Yes, sometimes there is madness around him, but Lary Chary reveals his love or his country in his song Olee Uganda.  One of the best songs that depicts the joy, love, happiness and unity of Ugandans expressed in the diverse cultures of her different beautiful people across  Uganda.

This song does not only speak about Uganda’s beauty but provokes patriotism and admiration for Uganda. The message and the beats, are the heartbeat of Uganda’s culture, that shows off well deserved heritage and tradition of Uganda past and present.

A song I sing with pride… dedicated to all the heroes who have risen over the generations to make Uganda a great nation

These young Ugandans have created an app that assists the blind to enjoy their phones

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Astone Miya
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These young Ugandans;  David  Lwangwa Mwesigwa 22  – Graphics Designer and Team Lead, Mubiru Joel  22– In charge, Research, Chemyolei Paul  22– Business Development Guy and Moris Atwine 21 – Software Development Lead have come together to develop a mobile phone app that seeks to help the blind people use their mobile phone without any assistance.  David’s brother became blind when he was 10. This unfortunate incident turned into questions that David sought to solve. He felt bad that even as his brother grew older and owned a mobile phone, there are those basics that his brother could not enjoy. He met amazing friends at Makerere university that he has worked with to create Visual+. Visual+ is a gesture based interaction and voice commands mobile application that helps a visually impaired person to manage the frequently used applications on phones as making calls and accessing music files.

What in the world is Visual+?

Many times, human rights are echoed in our ears about how it’s our right to have freedom of speech, right to life and more often we hear that major right, a right to education.

Visual+ is simply an easy to use gesture based interaction and voice commands mobile application that manages the most frequently used applications on a mobile device.

 How does doe this awesome app work?

Visual+ works in such way that, a user (visually impaired person) is required to be putting on headsets at the time of initiation to clearly listen to the voice prompts and to enhance your interaction with the app as it uses voice.

To initiate, the user shuffles the mobile device which activates the application.

There are four features on the home screen which include phone, music, notes and personal.

So,

  • By swiping to the right, the gesture helps the user to access prerecorded audio notes that are stored on the mobile device as audio books, quotes and many more.
  • A user swiping down, this gesture brings a lot of personalization tools that can be used by the user such as recording their own notes or speeches. A user is then prompted to swipe the screen to a given direction for app to register their choice for example swiping screen to the right to make a recording of their own.
  • By swiping to the left, the gesture helps the user access his or her music, reading material. A list of all these choices is displayed on screen, also echoed in user’s ear piece. The user will then swipe to the left in order to listen to the music list, or swipe to the right to play the stored music.
  • By swiping up, this gesture displays the phone menu where a user can add a phone number and be able to make a call of his/her choice using voice prompts. For example call Moris, once it’s saved, it processes the call automatically.
  • For a user to go back to a previous screen as well exit the application, he / she simply double taps the screen.

What problems does it seek to solve?

World health Organization (1997) estimated the number of visually impaired people worldwide to be 135 million.

Focusing on Uganda as a country, the number of visually impaired people has gone up to 1 million from 700,000 people (National Union of Disabled Persons, 2008). This group of people also has the required facilities that are not readily accessible in various parts of the country. More to this, the students with these facilities also have a challenge in accessing reading material for the blind, printing notes in brail or even playing educative games. Visual impairment is a great challenge worldwide.

What other opportunities do you think this app is likely to create?

Yes, Partnerships with telecom companies as well as phone companies!

Where do you draw your inspiration?

One of our team members, David has a brother who is blind, he has seen him fail to achieve most of the things and so thought he would really change such pressing problem through innovation. He then teamed up with Joel, Paul and Moris and that was the birth of Visual+.

What is your greatest achievements so far?

We were able to pitch it at the Humanitarian Innovation Exhibition Last Month, the feedback was promising, basically how it would be of great help to people in refugee camps and disaster affected areas.

Mainly, we haven’t really achieved much with this mobile app, we are still testing it with different groups to clearly understand how the blind or people with low vision can interface with these smart phones.

Does tech have a future in Uganda? 

Technology in Uganda is like a child, ambitious and inquisitive. That’s why it’s really growing very fast

 Are there times you have wanted to give up?

Not on the Visual+ app because passion is all we have for technology and there is a lot to be solved really. All in all, We are  not about to give up.

 What keeps you going during tough times?

We have the best solutions to most of these social problems affecting us, this may not necessarily be through technology, innovation as a process can have a considerable effort in changing most of problems we face, and in the end become our businesses.

What other projects have you worked on?

As a group, we haven’t worked on other mobile applications but some of the members Moris and David are among the brains behind the timely response and early diagnosis breast cancer management app called “BreastIT”. More info to this app is available on the project’s blog site www.thehyphengloveproject.wordpress.com

 Any last words to the reader?

We have never set out  to become  founder or co-founders of a great innovation, we always seek to tackle most of these pressing problems in and around our community” – Moris Atwine, Co-Founder and Software Development Lead, Visual+

11 Reasons why you should NEVER, ever visit Lake Bunyonyi

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Astone Miya
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1. First of all Lake Bunyonyi is not beautiful

2. There is literally nothing breathtaking to see. Just move along

3. There are even too many islands to navigate

4. The locals have wedding rides on boats. 

5. Not a good place to go for honeymoon. Don’t you agree?

6. Look at the birds at Lake Bunyonyi. They are not cute.

7. Even the animals too. 

8. We wouldn’t recommend you wake up to this view in the morning while on holiday, really

9. The sunset at Lake Bunyonyi? Not spectacular at all. Don’t you think so?

10. Look at the sunrise even. Always misty. 

11. Whatever you do, just stay away from Lake Bunyonyi

Uganda’s kitenge craze

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Astone Miya
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Forget the days when clothes made out of kitenge fabric were for the old people who used the materials to make clothes with a conservative approach. Skirts, dresses, and shirts.

Kitenge/chitenge is an east African fabric similar to a sarong often worn by men and women. Kitenge has been worn informally on any occasions and symbolically for example on traditional weddings, visitations and such other special functions and informally, more of late on casual days, cocktails etc.

The beauty that is kitenge is that it comes in a host of colors and patterns with each telling its own story. A traditional batik technique is used to print these patterns with each holding its own uniqueness and story.

It brings me great pleasure to see the streets of Kampala brightly colored with all these fabrics in different styles and prints. With people of all ages beautifully clad in these clothes.

‘Kitenge fabric depicts the African heritage in every sense’ says Gloria, a huge fan of the kitenge fabric. ‘It has really cool patterns too’.

When asked about the versatility and the best way to wear kitenge outfit, Bridget Mpora a designer and proprietor of Mpora designs says ‘to pull of any outfit made of kitenge, one has to simply accessorize it right. Get the right jewelry, purse, the right shoes and you will have nailed it. ‘

And on how and where to best wear outfits made from the kitenge fabric, ‘Kitenge is just another type of fabric used to make clothing to fit different occasions like parties, casually, formally and many more other functions.’

Forget the days when clothes made out of kitenge fabric were for the old people who used the materials to make clothes with a conservative approach. Skirts, dresses, and shirts..  Kitenge/chitenge is an East African fabric similar to a sarong often worn by men and women. Kitenge has been worn informally on any occasions and symbolically for example on traditional weddings, visitations, and such other special functions and informally, more of late on casual days, cocktails etc.

The beauty that is kitenge is that it comes in a host of colors and patterns with each telling its own story. A traditional batik technique is used to print these patterns with each holding its own uniqueness and story.

It brings me great pleasure to see the streets of Kampala brightly colored with all these fabrics in different styles and prints. With people of all ages beautifully clad in these clothes.

‘Kitenge fabric depicts the African heritage in every sense’ says Gloria, a huge fan of the kitenge fabric. ‘It has really cool patterns too’.

When asked about the versatility and the best way to wear kitenge outfit, Bridget Mpora a designer and proprietor of Mpora designs says ‘to pull of any outfit made of kitenge, one has to simply accessorize it right. Get the right jewelry, purse, the right shoes and you will have nailed it. ‘

And on how and where to best wear outfits made from the kitenge fabric, ‘Kitenge is just another type of fabric used to make clothing to fit different occasions like parties, casually, formally and many more other functions.’

Watch out for an exclusive interview with Barbra Ruth a young woman whose passionate about crafting the Kitenge. The pictures of the designs used in this story are hers. “Fashion is a passion,”  she says. In the meantime, you can WhatsApp her on 07777131912 to make an order.

Victor Ochen: The 33-Year-Old Ugandan Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

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When he was in the middle of an Internally Displaced Peoples (IDP) camp, risking his life to burn charcoal to raise his school fees, mending shoes of his schoolmates in high school, Victor Ochen had no idea that his name would one day appear on the list of the Nobel Peace Prize nominees.

Abia village, Abletong district in Northern Uganda is where he was born in 1981. For many years of his life he didn’t see peace. Idi Amin, Obote 11 Alice Lakwena and her Holy Spirit movement, the NRA and LRA rebels. War was the life he knew.

Hopelessness lingered, security was an illusion, and clothing, medication and other basic needs were a luxury. At the heart of conflict most of his friends joined armed forces. He refused to join because “I wanted a more peaceful way of solving conflict. I told my mother that I don’t appreciate guns and that I shall never join armed forces no matter how many guns were exchanging hands.” guns were everywhere, those that were not abducted by the rebels or recruited by the Uganda Peoples defense forces, joined auxiliary forces- home guards. “My friends were abducted so was my own brother Geoffrey Omara who was 26 when he was taken and we have never heard about him since.” He confesses to have become angry and bitterness clogged his life, war had hardened his heart but real healing began when he started helping the former war victims.

I was curious to know why Victor Ochen and not those guys that sat at the round table for the Juba peace talks were not nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.“The nomination surprised me” but the American friends service committee that was tracking his work since 2009 nominated him. This is the same committee that nominated Desmond Tutu, and Martin Luther King Junior, President Jimmy Carter who are all Nobel peace prizewinners. That in itself was a vote of confidence. When he read the ten-page recommendation that they had made of his work, he was amazed and yet all this time he had no clue that this committee had sent two people to Northern Uganda to scout his work.

What Victor did out of sheer compassion added him to this prestigious list. As a teenager in Abia camp that was home of over 40,000 people, he formed a peace club with his peers in the camp. This initiative angered the elders “Why are you talking about peace that you have never seen?” He was enterprising; he risked his life to burn charcoal to raise his school fees. Then later he joined secondary school and could barely afford time to do his charcoal business so he became a cobbler, he used to repair shoes of kids at school. One day he landed a big job of mending the shoes of the school football team, unfortunately that money was stolen. His hard work and favor from the teachers saw him through high school.

Victor’s heart was home even when he worked with straight talk foundation in Kampala, interacting with the people in the field made him realize that the people of northern Uganda wanted more than hand outs but wanted and deserved more. That is when he left his job and started the African youth initiative Network. This initiative mobilizes communities especially the youth to pursue peace and human rights, reconciliation. They offer psychosocial support to the former victims of conflict, most of who suffer severe emotional pain and struggle with forgiveness, they have also supported over 5000 people with reconstructive surgeries especially the women whose lips were cut off, the initiative also supports income generating activities, have formed 100 peace clubs in schools and universities in northern Uganda and over 6000 young people have gone through the peace building and transitional justice programme.

When all is falling apart and giving up is an option, “Victory Stories like that of Michael keep me going when everything is working against me.” he remembers Michael a survivor of an ambush that left 22 people dead. Although Michael had not been abducted, he was badly wounded and his parents were only waiting for Michael’s turn to die. For what its worth, they had abandoned him to stay in a hut away from their main hut. That is when the AYINET team was visiting that Victor met Michael. He was stinking because his wounds were rotting yet his parents didn’t have any money to take him to a hospital. “I had seen a lot of cases but Michael’s case kept me awake, I took him to Lacor hospital, but buses didn’t want to take us because the stench was too much” The doctors worked hard and Michael began to recover. Several weeks down the road, Victor made a phone call to Michaels’ father. In turn, the father called the elders to prepare for Michael’s funeral. When his father got to Lacor hospital, Michael was playing with other kids in the hospital compound. “The man cried out aloud”

About forgiveness, justice and reconciliation, he believes that before the government declares that they have forgiven anyone, the victims should have a say because they know what exactly they felt. Victor thinks that the Kony 2012 video was a blatant lie that offended the people of northern Uganda as it was glorifying war.

The Sweet Rains

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Astone Miya
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Remember the sweet old days,

When the dark clouds crowded and we

With our dark shrewd but happy faces

Looked up to the sky and started chanting,

The sweet words of s song I know too well.

It was a cinch because we wanted to play and it wanted to rain,

And we were cert that the heavens could hear our chants,

Of, “rain rain go away, come back another day.”

And with an unforgettable chumminess, we sang in unison.

“Rain rain go away, come back another day…”

As we gazed at the sky our eyes were full of hope.

The tyke we were, playful and happy for the rain came,

Beating down on the roofs in a thingummy beat.

Because the clouds pretended not to hear our cry,

Drip drop by drip drop, they came tumbling down from high above,

The dust was raised and the ground wet,

As we were softly tucked into our beds for the afternoon nap.

The rains brought about joy inexplicable,

The cool breeze that swept across our faces,

Massaging the wrinkles of youth that had started to form,

As we played in the rain against our parent’s will.

Of Chicken and Christmas in UGANDA

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Astone Miya
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o every year a good number of chicken say goodbye

Chicken for Christmas

to December on that merry day called Christmas.

Ugandans love to celebrate Christmas to the fullest and many of them before the early 80s would spend a fortnight celebrating this season.

Villages were found to host people from various homesteads for feasts with different homes choosing to host the others on different days.

Cattle would be slaughtered and food would be in plenty for anyone to eat since most rural people did not find problems with spending as they had worked earlier to earn the ransom.

Turkeys, goats, cows and chickens would be slaughtered all in celebration of the day called Christmas. The chicken was and is still is like a mandatory dish here in Uganda like turkey is in the United States of America when it comes to Thanksgiving dinner. Ugandans love chicken.

It was and is still no surprise to receive a gift of a chicken for Christmas from a neighbour. This explains why many of these seemingly innocent birds would be slaughtered all in celebration of Christmas.

Today still many people enjoy chicken as a delicacy and visiting family on a Christmas day will be a surprise if you are not served a piece of chicken as meat and other sauces are considered ordinary. Eky’ebeyi kya beyi Christmas eberako enkoko meaning a valuable entity should be honored with respect to its value and Christmas ought to be celebrated with a piece of chicken.

Where’s my chicken!?

This team has built an app so that you never have to worry about getting your laundry clean

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Weekdays can be stressful, the last thing you want to do on the weekend is laundry,  the bachelors and the bachelorettes can relate.  Sometimes this is made worse when the lady/guy that was supposed to help out  does not show up at all. But this is going to be history with the Yoza app, may people’s laundry woes are over. We caught up with this amazing team to tell us about this Awesome innovation.

What in the world the Yoza app?

Yoza is a location based laundry service mobile app. What this means is that when you have dirty laundry, our app will help you find someone in your area to do the laundry.

Why of all names did you choose Yoza?

Yoza in Luganda and Runyankole means ‘to wash’, we wanted something that was easy to pronounce, something short and catchy. We went for a word that everyone with dirty laundry would immediately relate with, that’s why we choose Yoza.

How does it work?

It’s very simple, every time you want your laundry done, you go to our app and we shall be able to connect you to with someone to do your laundry. You will be able to call them and even pay them through the app using Mobile Money.

Who is behind this amazing app?

We are a team of 4 people, Solomon Kitumba (Web Developer), Kyuka Isaac (Android Developer), Hassan Nsubuga (User Experience Designer) and myself (Hustler).

What problems does it seek to solve?

Sometimes you move to a new place and can’t access your previous laundry person, or sometimes they are busy doing laundry for another person or they took their child to the hospital but you have this pile of dirty laundry and you’re too busy to start doing the laundry yourself. That’s where we come in.

Do you see this app creating opportunities other than what it is meant for?

Definitely yes, anything can happen. Just for a fact right now the 25% of the laundry people we have signed up for our service are single mothers. These are hard-working women who just do laundry for a few people every week. The app is going to change this, we are going to give them access to anyone with a smartphone in their area, this will mean more work and more money to help them have a better life.

As a team, we want this app to surprise us, if we create hundreds of opportunities, they may be we shall have our fair share of changing the world.

Where do you draw your inspiration?

As an individual, I believe in creating 10 times improvement with technology in everything I do. In Yoza’s case we could just start a dry cleaning business, how many dry cleaning businesses do you see out there? How many people go to the dry cleaner every day or every week? Why do we even have to go to the dry cleaner? How do we take the dry cleaner to the people? Having a different perspective on things and bringing it to the customers is what inspires us as a team.

What is your greatest achievement so far?

So far, we won the MTN Challenge as the best mBusiness app and the overall winner. We have also done laundry for 10 people in Kampala and 1 person in Mbale. Our app now has 30 people registered to do laundry in the different parts of Kampala. I just can’t pick which one is the greatest.

What in your view is the future of Technology in Uganda?

Technology is going to play a big part of how we work and live in this beautiful country. We don’t see it yet but there’s a lot of change happening in our country, people are using smartphones to do a lot of things from gaming to buying food online. There’s a wave of new innovations that is going to take over our country from Agriculture to the service industry and technology is going to fuel us to this new Uganda.

Are there times you have wanted to give up?

With Yoza no, but with my other projects yes but that’s a story for another day.

What keeps you going during the tough times?

The fact that we solve a problem that people have everyday, everyday you will put on a clean pair of jeans and we want to be the business you run to every time you want your jeans cleaned.

Any last words to the reader?
I would say thank you for reading up to this part, we want to work with you and we are going to keep you posted on what is going on via our website.

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