On March 5th 2016, I was privileged to have an interview with Esther Oluka in the Sunday Monitor about my Life and the decisions I have made. You can read it HERE or below. Onyait Odeke is a man who wears many hats. The Acting EIC at Dignited, a Tech website based in Uganda spoke…
There are numerous religions in Uganda and since I can’t talk about them all, I will talk about what I am well conversant with – Christianity (I am one). One could write a book about Religion and being a man because there is so much to write but I will focus on a few things…
For this particular post, I will share some of my own personal experience which may have biases and may not entirely apply across the board but they are my experiences and I know that many people also went through the same. I struggled with this growing up. I often felt like I am not on…
Culture and tradition is among the things that guides human behavior to achieve some form of consistency and continuity. As such, cultures and traditions prescribe practices with the intention of achieving certain ends like preserving values and beliefs among others. These later form the basis for why we do some of the things we do.…
When a child is born, the first news that is given to the anxious parents is the sex of the child. It’s a baby boy, it’s a baby girl the midwives or doctors say. Some really anxious parents go for a scan to identify the sex of the child before it’s born. The Sex of…
We are looking at what it means to be a MAN. All through September I will be sharing thoughts on the #BeingaMan series. In this Post I look at how Men define a Woman in Uganda
We are looking at what it means to be a MAN. All through September I will be sharing thoughts on the #BeingaMan series
This was written by my friend and brother Paul Turyagumanawe and posted here with his permission. He implores the challenges that face Ugandan weddings today. He tackles the fact that weddings in Uganda today seem to be synonymous with having money or being rich. Worse still people would spend what they don’t have/earn to have…
On this day 10 months ago, God blessed Jenny and I with baby Genesis. I remember how scared I was to be a father. I also remember how some people (Who I hold in high regard) condemned me for having a child out of wedlock. They said I was setting the wrong example.
One of the things we struggle with as human beings is making peace with uncertainty. We want to be able to understand, plan and predict everything. We get a lot of comfort in certainty yet we cannot always control, successfully predict, prepare or plan everything. A huge part of life is in embracing the unknown.…
