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His radiance is hard to miss. Bubbly and so full of life, a young man with dreams the size of a truck. Though Somali by descent, he hasn’t let borders confine his pursuit for knowledge. He has decided to transcend boundaries. 

This insatiable desire to build personal competence has landed him in Mukono and he is upbeat. “Uganda is an organized country, the education system in Uganda is well-developed, and I believed it would provide me with the right skills and knowledge,” he tells me as he smiles.

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Uganda Christian University (UCU) is mourning the tragic loss of two of its students, Lillian Kampi and Joanne Mirana Wanyana, whose untimely deaths in early September have left the university community in shock and grief. Kampi, a second-year Bachelor of Nursing Science student, was found dead in her hostel room on September 9, while Wanyana, a second-year Bachelor of Science in Data Science Analytics student, passed away in a hospital just five days later on September 14. The exact cause of Kampi’s death remains unknown, as the post-mortem report has not yet been released.

With the online transition of all postgraduate programs, it has become nearly impossible for lecturers and students to meet in person. On January 20, the Department of Computing and Technology under the Faculty of Engineering organized a meet and greet session for the students and lecturers at the university.

One day, they decided to imitate what they had seen the older boys doing. “We didn’t know the basics of the game.” The tackles were kicks. You would jump, kick your friend, and make sure they fell. “We never played the game again because everyone was in pain after,” Wanyama narrated.

Bonny Okada, a 36-year-old alumnus of Uganda Christian University (UCU) Mbale College and a sign language teaching assistant at Uganda Martyrs University, lost his hearing when he was 15 years old in 2002 due to a quinine overdose.

While social media is mostly seen as a place for entertainment by most, some view it as a source of income, so they go there not only to entertain themselves or to get entertained but also to make money out of it.

Through a three-month group exhibition at Uganda Christian University (UCU) in the Hamu Mukasa library, part of the Buganda Kingdom’s past history, as described in the two books written by Hamu Mukasa, Simuda Nyuma:ebiro by a Muteesa (1938) and Simuda Nyuma:ebiro by a Mwanga (1942), was displayed through art. This comes under the subject “Beyond Memories.”