Some places welcome you. Others change you quietly, from the inside out. Beauvais Retreat Centre sits on a peaceful hill outside Kampala in Masulita, holding a calm that settles into…
Piracy and Intellectual Property theft have long plagued Uganda’s creative sector, robbing musicians, filmmakers, producers and innovators of both recognition and income. But government agencies, industry leaders and artistes themselves…
For Isaiah Katumwa, music has never just been a passion; it’s been a calling. A platform to not only chase his dreams, but to uplift others and build a legacy...
This Sunday, July 20th, the Kampala Serena Hotel will transform into a stage of history, legacy, and world-class jazz, as Uganda’s foremost saxophonist, Isaiah Katumwa, celebrates 30 years of music,...
The Ruparelia Group is set to unveil its latest addition to Uganda’s luxury hospitality scene—Paradise Island Resort—in November 2025. Located on a secluded 24-acre island in the heart of Lake...
Sometime in June 2022, I and a few friends spent about 4-5 days in the Kasenda-Ndali areas of Kabarole and Bunyangabu districts documenting the various crater lakes⏤ they are said to be over 50, but we managed to only document and photograph 43 of them. Each of the lakes is beautifully different from the others, while others proximally complement each other’s beauty, especially those that appear in twos, also known as twin lakes. Besides the blue and green coloured lakes, the surrounding ridges, and depressions/valleys, each teeming with various types of vegetation and every now and then, ornamented by a…
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Dr. Catherine Kibirige’s parents were some of the most accomplished Ugandans in post-independence Uganda. Her mother, Dr. Rebecca Nyonyintono, received a partial bursary to go to Gayaza High School. She went on to Makerere University and then received a Carnegie Foundation grant to study for her PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York in Buffalo. Dr. Nyonyintono was one of the first Ugandan women to receive a Ph.D. Catherine’s father, Mr Samuel Kibirige, went to Kings College Budo and then got a first-class, Summa Cum Laude, degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Swansea, University of Wales…
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Jinja, in the Near East of Uganda is one of Uganda’s most unique locations. Not only is it located close to Uganda’s capital city, Kampala (approximately 80 kilometres) It also sits astride both shores of the mighty River Nile. It is also host to the much-sought-after Source of the Nile, the world’s longest river. Another reasonable portion of the city sits on the shores of Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake and the second-largest freshwater lake in the world. Jinja, no doubt, owes much of its beauty, excellent claimant and unique tourist attractions to its proximity to the Nile and Lake…
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Western Uganda is richly ornamented with various tourist attractions— both natural and manmade, often astride each other. One such jewel is Jacana Safari Lodge on the fringes of Imaramagambo Forest in Southwestern Uganda. The forest itself is on the edges of the mighty Queen Elizabeth National Park- a medley of wonders, straddling the Equator and teeming with several animal and bird species—95 mammal species and over 600 bird species to be exact. The park is home to at least 20 carnivores- including the lions, leopards, the side-stripped jackal and spotted hyena among others. Set against the backdrop of the famous…
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Many a time people who do not travel tend not to understand people like us who suffer from wanderlust- that strong and insatiable desire to travel. Well, sometimes, we too don’t understand ourselves, but at least one thing we know, or at least I know, nothing beats that feeling of discovering something or a new place and then the immediate subsequent desire to tell the discovery to the world. And as that desire is waning, another desire sets in to travel somewhere else rises, like a fresh wave- and that is how we ended up at Mutuumo Island Resort. As…
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On Saturday, June 24, 2023, the new Rotary Club of Kigo Seven Lakes Golf celebrated its Charter Ceremony at an elegant event held at the prestigious lake-shore Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort & Spa Resort, in Kigo, Wakiso District, on the outskirts of the Kampala City. With an impressive turnout, the event marked a significant milestone in the club’s history, as it officially chartered with 54 esteemed members. The night was nothing short of extraordinary, as it attracted high-profile guests, including business captains, political leaders, diplomats, and traditional leaders; thanks to the new club President, Jimmy Mugerwa, a celebrated…
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Yustus Aribariho doesn’t regard himself as an adrenaline junkie- but away from his busy schedule, as a global banker- he has done some adrenaline-rising stuff. He has jumped out of the plane, you can call it skydiving if you like. He has also cycled over 600km from Singapore to Malaysia and run over 15 marathons across the globe. But he had never done, what in his words, he describes as “excruciatingly sweet” as climbing the Rwenzori Mountains. Excruciating because it is a tough 7-day hike from 1,450 metres above sea level- through various difficulty levels and harsh terrains- to 5,109…
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On Friday, 9 December 2022, celebrated businessman Amos Nzeyi hosted peers and industry captains to an exclusive Johnnie Walker Blue Club event held at his new residence in Kigo, on the outskirts of Kampala. The guest list ranged from the diplomatic corps to industry captains, top businessmen and women, and golfers. Nzeyi, an avid collector of fine whisky, had his guests taken on a journey through the world of Scotch by the Johnnie Walker Reserve Brand Ambassador Agaba Tumusiime, Johnnie Walker Brand Manager Christine Kyokunda, and Scotch Brand Ambassador Marcus Kwikiriza. Set in a sublime atmosphere, a range of Johnnie…
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After making a fortune in supermarkets and commercial real estate, Ponsiano Ngabirano, the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Capital Shoppers Supermarkets, has ventured into the hospitality industry. The retail UGX billionaire is building a 400-room 5-star hotel in Nsambya, Kampala, next to Méstil Hotel & Residences Kampala. The iconic structure that has already earned space on the Kampala skyline and is a walking distance from the Arena Mall is to be completed by 2023/24, just around the same time the traffic-jam-killing Kampala Flyover project will be complete. Born in 1955 in Rukungiri, in Rukungiri District, Western Uganda, he in…
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It is a known tradition within the hospitality sector that the festive season hasn’t really begun until Speke Resort Munyonyo and Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort have released their popular and much-anticipated programme for the season. And it is not difficult to understand why. Naturally, being the biggest luxury resort in the country, the 2-in-1 resort complex boasts of a combined 472 Rooms, 20 conference rooms, 3 ballrooms and 10 outdoor venues, it sets the tempo for the industry. Built on over 90 acres of green lakeside beach land on the shores of Lake Victoria, the resort is probably the most beautiful…
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