the hand hoe, till when?
yesterday I heard on radio a minister delivering hand hoes (either as a gift to the poor farmers in her constituency or on government program). the women ululated and danced and clapped and I am sure the donor was beaming with satisfaction at generosity to the poor folks receiving the donation. Ugandans who have used a hand hoe know how time consuming the tool is as a tool of production. it is the reason why young people do not want to associate with agriculture. it is not only time consuming, but also back breaking. and worse still the "entrepreneur" does not get paid worth their labor and other costs of production. to all right thinking Ugandans: how long should our folks continue supplying us food using a hand hoe and at prices below costs of production? and why should those in power continue thinking that Ugandan farmers (call them peasants) must 20years down the year 2000 still be backbreaking with this obsolete tool? in 1966 the agriculture ministry had started providing appropriate hand tools that could be drawn by oxen to aid ploughing, planting, seeding, weeding. where did that technology vanish too? meanwhile those in privileged position keep moving with technology (I mean doing their work with the most recent tools available: computers, recent car brands, latest in furniture at the office, name it). I think farmers should start a revolution against enslavement by both the "market forces" and their government. continuing in servitude isn't fair at all.
my opinion

Big Hat Like that of Mr. Gorbachev

I have known two hat wearing leaders in the world who i want your subject to emulate. one was Mr. Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union. 

Mr. Gorbachev introduced into Russian lingo the terminus perestroika and glasnost. he inherited a rotten soviet union and set about to reform opening it up to the rest of the world and releasing the soviets from the soviet gulags and giving the freedom to move far and wide something only preserved for a few privileged soviets then. after opening up the evil empire he retired to his dacha and has been leading a simple life in Russia since. his act led to a number of important changes in the soviet union, one of them was a return of the soviets to their original states (Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova etc.) peaceful with minimum or no bloodshed.

The second man in a hat is Nigeria's bad luck sorry good luck. good luck had ambitions to stick around and mounted a vitriolic campaign without shame after failing to control Boko haram and being reminded every passing day by the return our girls campaign group. in the heat of battle fought without intrigue, violence, bribery and all kinds of malaise typical of African incumbent presidential campaigns, Mr. Good Luck lost to the aging military strong man a one time putsch-man in 1983 and with grace declared that his ambitions were not worthy of spilling even one Nigerian citizen's blood. he congratulated Mr. Buhari and handed power over to the latter. 

Those are two men in  "Gorbachev" hats I have admired seriously and wish our own Kags could get baptized in the name Gorbachev's big hat and say pearls time is up for me and I am off to Rwakitura.  

GOD HEARKEN TO THIS PRAYER AND SOFTEN KAGS HEART SO HE JOINS GORBACHEV AND GOOD LUCK. 
AMEN

preamble

in early eighties while museveni and his entourage were in the bush, they came with a document titled NRM Ten Point Program" which upon capturing power in 1986, they touted as a road map for Uganda and may be for Africa in general. it opened as follows: The Ten-Point Programme The National Resistance Council of the National Resistance Movement together with the High Command and Senior Officers of the National Resistance Army (NRA) under the chairmanship of President Yoweri Museveni have worked out proposals for a political programme that could form a basis for a nationwide coalition of political and social forces that could usher in a new and better future for the long-suffering people of Uganda. This proposal is now popularly know as the TEN-POINT PROGRAMME. Background 1. Democracy 2. Security 3. Consolidation of National security and elimination of all forms of sectarianism 4. Defending and consolidating National Independence 5. Building an independent, integrated and self-sustaining national economy 6. Restoration and improvement of Social services and the rehabilitation of the war ravaged areas 7. Elimination of corruption and misuse of power 8. Redressing errors that have resulted in the dislocation of sections of the population and improvement of others 9. Co-operation with other African countries in defending human and democratic rights of our brothers in other parts of Africa 10. Following an economic strategy of mixed economy. We want to revisit that document and try to measure museveni's (NRM's) performance against the movement's espoused 10 point program which the movement used to lie to the people of Uganda and the world at large about their "noble intentions" for the people of Uganda.