Bread in a Ugandan setting is commonly prepared from a wheat base, unlike in developed countries where wheat is getting less popular as more allergens in wheat are found.
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Author: The Standard Editor
This is the digital news site of the Uganda Christian University community newspaper, "The Standard". The Standard newspaper was established in May 2007 under, formerly Department, but now School of Journalism, Media & Communication.
Rotary builds maternity facility at Mukono hospital
“I was bullied by not only the health workers but even by my fellow patients. This really hurt me so much. At that point, if I knew then how to abort, trust me, my baby wouldn’t see the light of the day today,” she said.
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DRC Independence: UCU students express mixed feelings
The Congolese students’ community at Uganda Christian University (UCU) had their fair say on what this independence means to them.
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Sweets, upkeep savior at UCU
Some of the students at Uganda Christian University (UCU) are trying to find means of survival. The students are embracing entrepreneurship in order to survival in a harsh economy. The students are choosing to start small. The zealous students are selling sweets among their fellow students.
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Practice of music blends with business studies
“I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” This is a quote attributed in 1929 to German-born physicist Albert Einstein. Had he not been a scientist, he said he would have chosen a career in music.
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Love and Sex- Applying the Song of Songs in a Global Cultural Context: Research publication
The Canticles of Solomon, as the book is sometimes called, uses such “graphic imagery” of romantic love and sexuality, as to trigger a measure of embarrassment or shyness, even among the clergy, let alone Christians, who read the Bible.
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Man from Toronto: A must watch
He is a very effective hit man whose vicious reputation for torturing precedes him. We see him plying his trade in an early scene. hired to extract information by any means necessary.
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Masembe unpacks leadership agenda as Kampala campus Guild President
In his year of leadership, Masembe said he hopes to help lift the student financial burden of meeting the university requirements. He says he got the inspiration to vie for the office because he thought the structural arrangement of the sports facilities at Kampala Campus needed to be improved by a leader with an interest in sports.
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Azania molds UCU students in poetry, performing arts
When there is a burning desire for wordsmiths to breathe life into the spoken word, they rarely fail to find a platform to express their craft. If such a platform doesn’t exist, they create their own.
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Gayaza girls eager to study sciences at UCU: An outreach tale
Some of them had myths UCU was “strict” and “law and theology-centered”. In fact, they may have been surprised that we were wearing trousers instead of extremely long, nun-like skirts. In the delusion, they likened the strictness to that of a secondary school.
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