Author: The Standard Editor

Nothing seemed to stop the already fired up doves, and this fact was well proved yesterday as they overran the Tigers Volleyball Club, winning three sets to one in quite some style.

“I had my first piece of writing published at age 12, but this is the first time I’ve talked about my lifelong career as a writer,” Huston-Holm said to a group of 12 gathered on a rainy Aug. 8 afternoon in the second-floor, writing center area of the Ham Mukasa Library. “I’m much more comfortable getting stories about other people.”

Our curiosity is piqued by the Uganda Christian University mass communication students’ film, The Art of Teamwork and Sleepless Nights.

Relying on God, Mugabe persevered to graduate with time and technical obstacles – both before and after Covid-restriction challenges. Mugabe says that in his first semester, he could not do his assignments on time due to the fact that he did not have a laptop and a smartphone. He borrowed a laptop from a friend to accomplish the coursework and assignments, but not always on a deadline.  

A friend was concerned that her child was involved in a courtship with a gentleman she was not comfortable with, and she did not know how to share this with her daughter. As we discussed, I asked her how often she sat with her daughter and other children to talk about relationship issues.

A short movie titled “My Degree” has been released by journalism students from Uganda Christian University (UCU). The film is a brief, captivating work whose central message emphasizes the value of humility in moral character and virtue, both of which are lacking in the majority of university students.

As a teenager and the first born of four, it was mentally challenging for her. On top of sitting for her senior four exams with no assurance of her father’s being released, her mother’s health deteriorated. She was diagnosed with hypertension and was always in and out of hospitals at the time, yet they had no support, not even from relatives.

There are plenty of big, dumb action movies out there that can deliver thrills without taxing the mind. And then there are films that are so outrageously stupid that they transcend guilty pleasure and become a danger to themselves and those around them. Bullet Train is in the latter category. It’s so stupid that you wouldn’t trust it to cross the street alone, let alone navigate Japan’s Shinkansen high-speed rail network.

If you have been a fan of Marvel comic movies, then holding your bowel of popcorn to watch Samaritan will be an automatic.

Sitting at the base of the painting that covers a once-gray cylindrical water tank,  Kabitanya’s all black attire and subdued demeanor contrast with the bold colors, messages and images of the mural. Just shy of his 32nd birthday, he admits his introversion with people and extroversion with his craft.