During his visit to Africa this summer, the US president, Barack Obama, addressed legal discrimination against LGBT individuals. Meeting the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, Obama said: “When you start treating people differently not because of any harm they are doing to anybody, but because they are different, that’s the path whereby freedoms begin to erode.” Unfortunately, the …
THE first time I applied for a loan, it was an education. I had been a customer at my bank in the Lake Victoria-side city of Entebbe, Uganda, for five years. I was a farmer, and I knew there was money to be made in pig farming. As a veterinarian, I also knew our local …
The video for American singer Taylor Swift's new song "Wildest Dreams" has been viewed more than 10 million times in the two days since it debuted. The video was shot in Africa and California. In it, we see two beautiful white people falling in love while surrounded by vast expanses of beautiful African landscapes and …
Poverty and hunger often go hand-in-hand. But in my country of Uganda, farmers are generating a revolution that is overcoming both, and it is based on pigs. In the past 30 years, the number of pigs raised in Uganda has increased from about 200,000 to 3.2 million pigs. Today, more than one million Ugandan farmers are …
Baahubali is the most expensive Indian film ever made: The two-part work cost $40 million to make. Its investors don't need to worry, though. After its release in June, Baahubali swiftly broke all Indian box office records, earning $50 million. As Forbes notes, "That makes it the most successful opening in the history of India’s prolific, multi-language film industry which makes over a …