Published in Uganda's Sunday Monitor

By The Way

A satirical take on current events, politics, and everyday life in Uganda. Published weekly in the Sunday Monitor from September 2011 to September 2015. 151 columns.

  • Love is going to be in the air soon

    Valentines is around the corner and several men are breaking out in a sweat. Nights at bars are being spent going over what would be…

  • Making finger-licking Chicken

    This column is entirely about making you a well-rounded being. This means covering your appearance, your accent, stopping you from picking your nose, letting you…

  • How to Be a Good Neighbour

    Many times in our adult life, we find ourselves plagued by self-doubt. As children, things like whether our favourite pink shirt matched our favourite purple…

  • Dealing With Love

    This column is all about suggesting, sometimes in strong terms, practical ways of making your life better. And easier. And making you that person that…

  • How To Live Large in 2012

    The beautiful New Year is here and the flowers and frowns of 2011 have already been handed out. The beauty about a new year is…

  • Christmas: The Real Story Behind It

    My Grandma, bless her soul, had a gift for storytelling. Every other Christmas, she’d gather us round and tell us what she said was the…

  • The life of a mast

    Many times in life, you’ll wake up and find masts that don’t belong to you in your backyard or at your radio station. I spent…

  • Things UMEME Has Added To Our Vocabulary

    Things UMEME has added to our vocabulary Every other day we come up with a new expletive to use when referring to the entity charged…

  • Corporate bureaucracy kills the simple things of office life

    If you’ve worked for a company for some time, you know that the true beauty of any company is in its bureaucracy. You simply cannot…

  • Who deserves a raise at work

    I’ve never been a boss at a work place. The palm reader I went to said I’d be boss in a few years so it…