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Hide in Plain Sight (opens the original)
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“I never looked back. I just stayed at it.” — Charles Onyango-Obbo What does a lifetime spent observing people, politics, media and society teach you about leadership? In this episode of the Footprints Podcast Series, we sit down with Ugandan journalist, writer and curator Charles Onyango-Obbo for a conversation that begins long before the newsroom. Charles takes us back to his childhood, an intellectually rich family environment and his experience growing up with a severe stammer. When spoken
Who Will Carry The Work? (opens the original)
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“If I tell my story to people and tell them how I managed to live, that is what gives another person the persistence in life.” — Dr Lydia Mungherera There are moments in a life that divide the story into a before and an after. For Dr Lydia Mungherera , returning to Uganda gravely ill in 1997 was one of them. She speaks candidly about illness, treatment, family support and recovery, but what makes the story particularly striking is what happened afterwards. Survival gradually became service, and
The Missing Dimension | 2 (opens the original)
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💬 “There is hope. There is definitely hope. And there is hope in young people.” _ John De Coninck What does it mean to belong to a place? What should remain after a founder leaves? And how do we continue contributing when the season of being in charge has passed? In The Missing Dimension | Part 2, John De Coninck takes us further into a life shaped by Uganda, culture, civil society, institution building and the continuing search for identity and purpose. He reflects on the growing interest among
The Missing Dimension (opens the original)
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Episode 8 part 1 traces John De Coninck's path from a floating theatre on the rivers of Belgium, to a childhood in the Belgian Congo, to nearly five decades of community development work in Uganda. Known to many as Mukiibi, John shares what it was like arriving in Uganda in 1973, teaching at Makerere during Idi Amin's rule, co-founding a university in Juba, surviving deportation, and eventually building one of the country's earliest organisations dedicated to strengthening how NGOs and community
What We Leave Behind (opens the original)
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"What we leave behind are our words, our thoughts, and our actions." _ Mary Moran In this episode of Footprints, a podcast by Sauti Africa, we sit down with Mary Moran, an 87 year old teacher, counsellor, and former Catholic nun who has spent over six decades between Ireland, Uganda, the United States, and beyond, learning, teaching, and giving. Mary shares her journey from a young home economics teacher arriving in Uganda in 1963, through 27 years at Maryhill High School, her years as a nun, he
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