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On the 1st of November 1978, Idi Amin Dada announced that he had annexed Kagera region in Tanzania. What followed was a year-long period of tension and conflict between Uganda and Tanzania, ultimately culminating in the Uganda-Tanzania War.

The MV Bukoba disaster was one of the deadliest maritime tragedies in Africa. On May 21, 1996, the MV Bukoba sank in Lake Victoria near Mwanza, Tanzania, claiming the lives of up to 1,000 people, with an official death toll of 894.

They say museums are wormholes to other worlds. When I walked into the Uganda Museum in Kampala, the first thing that caught my eye was the sculpture of a certain historical figure I was not familiar with. Surely, he must have been incredibly significant to earn such a prime spot in the museum. Ham Mukasa went from being a simple herdsman's son to a big deal in the Buganda Kingdom. His story? W...

STORIES FROM NAM LOLWE | PART 2 On July 11th 1989, the National Resistance Army (NRA) in Uganda rounded up 300 men in Mukura, a small town in north eastern Uganda. They were suspected to be rebels against the NRA regime. A group of 120 of these men were placed in a holding cell, which happened to be a small train wagon. Four hours later, 69 of them had suffocated. So, what exactly happened?

In the 1920s, the British colonial officials decided to introduce the Nile Perch into Lake Victoria. What started as a simple economic incentive, morphed to become one the most prolific human-caused extinction within an ecosystem.