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    off-plan housing boom is growing faster than regulation, leaving buyers exposed to defective homes, financial loss, and unclear accountability in a market built on promises rather than protection.

    Uganda’s Property Boom Is Outpacing Its Laws

    Jeff WintersReal Estate & ConstructionFebruary 4, 2026February 4, 2026

    As more Ugandans invest their savings and take out loans to buy homes, particularly through off-plan developments, the country’s booming property market is exposing buyers to growing financial, safety, and…

    With only a few days’ fuel in reserve, limited storage leaves Uganda exposed to shipment delays, regional disruptions, and sudden price shocks, turning minor supply hiccups into national energy crises.

    How Storage Gaps Continue to Threaten Uganda’s Fuel Security

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryFebruary 3, 2026February 3, 2026

    Fuel supply is working better than it used to, but only just, according to data from the Office of the Auditor General.   The numbers suggest progress, yet they also…

    Chairman and Director Conflict Resolution Tim Fletcher, CEO and Managing Partner Brent Williams, and Kenya Managing Partner Sammy Ndolo anchor Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr’s rise in in both South Africa and East Africa, combining strategic leadership, execution discipline, and local insight as the firm quietly steers the region’s most complex, multibillion-dollar cross-border transactions.

    Who is Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, the law firm advising the $3 bilion Vodacom-Safaricom and Nedbank-NCBA Bank Deals?

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryJanuary 30, 2026January 30, 2026

    When two of East Africa’s largest corporate transactions, together valued at nearly $3 billion, required legal advisers, the mandates converged on a single firm. That firm is Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr…

    Juliana Kagwa stepped into one of Uganda’s toughest CEO roles, tasked with turning ambition into revenue, vision into visitors, and limited resources into global impact, under intense scrutiny and rising expectations.

    CEOs in the Hot Seat: Juliana Kagwa and the High-Stakes Rebuild of Uganda’s Tourism Brand

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryJanuary 27, 2026January 27, 2026

    When Juliana Kagwa assumed office as Chief Executive Officer of Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) in June 2025, she stepped into one of the most demanding leadership roles, one defined by…

    Peter Magona believes the future of advertising will be decided by how quickly agencies learn to work with AI, not fight it. With clients already using powerful tools, he argues that relevance now depends on integration, combining human insight, strategic judgment, and creative instinct with AI’s speed, scale, and analytical power before the gap becomes impossible to close.

    AI, Automation & the Future Adman: How Technology Will Rewrite the Advertising Industry

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryDecember 16, 2025December 16, 2025

    If the first four parts of this MadMen, Dreamers and Deal-Makers series were about the machine, how it was built from accidents, battered by economics, bruised by burnout, and handed…

    A new generation steps onto the agency floor, digital-native, values-driven, and impatient with outdated rules. They design, shoot, test, and build audiences in real time, reshaping how ideas are made and shared. This is the collision between experience and evolution, and the fragile promise of what Uganda’s creative future could become.

    The Future is Creative: Gen Z, Talent, and the New Workforce Reshaping Uganda’s Advertising Industry

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryDecember 15, 2025December 15, 2025

    The first three parts of MadMen, Dreamers and Deal-Makers were about how the machine was built, broken, and survived. This part is about who is going to drive it next….

    Uganda’s advertising industry has been shaped by resilient leaders who understand both the brilliance and the burden of creative work. David Galukande built an agency culture so intense it felt like a movement, while Josephine Muvumba powered through long, thrilling yet exhausting early years that blurred passion and pressure. John Chihi continues to navigate the financial strain that quietly wears teams down, and Seanice Kacungira leads in a digital era where constant iteration leaves little room to breathe. Together, their stories reveal an industry fuelled by ambition but shadowed by stress and burnout—demanding systems that protect the people behind the ideas.

    Brilliance at a Bad Price: Burnout, Stress and Survival in Uganda’s Advertising Industry, Where Working Long Hours is a Norm

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryDecember 12, 2025December 12, 2025

    If the first part of this series was about how the madmen stumbled into the machine, and the second about how the money broke it, this part is about what…

    Uganda’s advertising veterans sit at familiar desks, but the industry around them has transformed. Once fuelled by fat retainers and overflowing media commissions, agencies now battle thin scopes, shrinking budgets, and relentless pressure to do more for less. Amid late payments, eroded ethics, and generational tension, leaders fight to protect creativity, integrity, and value. This is the quiet, stubborn struggle to keep an old machine alive on fading fuel.

    An AD Agency Industry in Pain: Broken Retainers, Shrinking Budgets and the Fight for Value vs Ethics

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryDecember 11, 2025December 11, 2025

    If part one of MadMen, Dreamers and Deal-Makers was about how Uganda’s advertising giants stumbled into the industry, this part, which is precisely part two, reminds you of what happened…

    A photo collage of Jeffrey Amani, Adris Kamuli, David Case, Peter Magona, Daniel Ligyalingi, Rommel Jasi, Alemu Emuron, and Joshua Kamugabirwe. Uganda’s ad industry was built by “accidentals” who wandered in through cricket pitches, rugby chats, art schools, and random interviews. With no clear pipeline, they learned by doing, then became founders, mentors, and standards-setters—turning side doors into institutions and asking how to keep luck alive, but kinder, for others today.

    MADMEN, DREAMERS, AND DEAL-MAKERS – The Accidental Admen: How Uganda’s Creative Giants Found Their Way into the Industry

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryDecember 10, 2025December 10, 2025

    If Uganda had built a proper advertising pipeline, this story would be very boring. There would be brochures in Senior Six career offices defining “account management.” Parents would nod proudly…

    Moses Lutalo argues Uganda’s real estate struggles aren’t about demand, but broken systems: costly financing, volatile currency, heavy taxes, and weak land governance squeezing developers daily, scaring off long-term capital.

    Inside Uganda’s Property Market: Broll Uganda’s Moses Lutalo on Sector Realities and the Signals Investors Can’t Ignore

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryDecember 6, 2025December 5, 2025

    When I sit down with Moses Lutalo, the Managing Director of Broll Uganda, the conversation quickly settles on the forces reshaping Uganda’s real estate landscape: financing pressures, currency volatility, talent…

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