Social critic Frank Gashumba has never been one to whisper what others mumble. This week, he turned his microphone on Uganda’s celebrity culture and questioned whether the title means anything at all anymore.
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A dramatic family feud has spilled into Uganda’s corridors of power. Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of President Yoweri Museveni, has publicly declared his brother-in-law’s government-commissioned advisory body ‘illegal’ and threatened mass arrests of its members. This is not a soap opera. This is Kampala.
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She was the voice behind Jolene, the architect of 9 to 5, and the beating heart of American country music for over six decades. On August 25, 2026, Dolly Parton left the building for the last time, and the world has not stopped singing since.
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Most funding bodies play it safe, backing research with predictable outcomes and tidy returns. But one government agency is doing the opposite, writing cheques for the kind of science that sounds impossible until it isn’t. The stakes are high, and that’s precisely the point.
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Two names, two trophies, one unforgettable night for English football. Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes and Manchester City striker Khadija Shaw have claimed the sport’s most peer-respected individual honours. When your fellow professionals vote for you, it hits differently.
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What started as a quiet workaround to the taxi crisis on the Jinja Road corridor has become something much bigger. Commuters are boarding the train to Kampala in record numbers, and rail operators say the demand is only going up.
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She names names, takes no prisoners, and refuses to stay quiet, Prima Kadarshi is Uganda’s most outspoken social media critic of the music industry, and she’s perfectly fine with that reputation. During a recent TikTok Live, the reality TV personality laid out her case for why no musician gets a free pass. The response? Loud, predictable, and entirely deserved.
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A quiet arrest in Entebbe has set Uganda’s political circles buzzing. Matthew Bagonza, the operational backbone of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development, was reportedly picked up from his home, hours after a very public threat from the Chief of Defence Forces. What looks like a corruption crackdown may be something far more complicated.
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When your own workforce greets you with whistles and banners reading ‘Our jobs are not your balance sheet adjustments,’ the message is hard to misread. Volkswagen’s CEO Oliver Blume stepped into the lion’s den at the company’s German headquarters this week, and the reception was anything but warm. This is a story about a giant losing its footing, and the human cost of that fall.
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A new club, a new shirt, and crucially, a new name. Tottenham Hotspur have landed one of the Premier League’s most exciting young talents, and the 22-year-old Brazilian is arriving as himself for the first time. The Savio era at Spurs has officially begun.
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