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- Sep 16, 2026
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When the bride has no price - The Observer Media Ltd (opens the original)
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We were seated somewhere in Nyamiyaga, watching the evening slowly settle over the hills, with my best Nyamiyaga friend. She defends bride price with a kind of conviction and grace. “Bright,” she says, “you men have completely misunderstood bride price.” She has my attention. Because I had gone into the conversation prepared to make the usual argument: that women cannot be bought, that young men are being financially squeezed, that some families have turned a cultural ceremony into an auction an
When Mother Earth sends the bill - The Observer Media Ltd (opens the original)
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I am seated here with my Nyamiyaga boys, shirts unbuttoned because the heat has become disrespectful. The dust is everywhere. Polythene bags are flying around us as though they too have lost direction. We are trying to cool ourselves down with some expensive watermelon, each bite feeling like a small luxury in an economy where even fruit has started behaving like a commodity for the rich. We laugh about it. That is what we do. We laugh when the heat is unbearable. We complain when it rains too m
Have we had enough of capitalism? - The Observer Media Ltd (opens the original)
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My Nyamiyaga buddy told me how his Shs 50,000 disappears every day. He cannot trace how it vanishes. I asked him if he is working to live or living to work. This is worrisome because it turns the common life advice upside down and instead, “we live to work not work to live.” This suggests that a person’s main purpose and joy come from their job rather than their personal life. We joked about how our hard-earned money disappears, and we put all the blame on capitalism. Work must dignify man. But
What if boda boda riders spent month at Kyankwanzi? - The Observer Media Ltd (opens the original)
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It is Friday evening, my Nyamiyaga best friend and I are in the thick of traffic driving for a chill after a long hauling week. I’m jazzing her my Kyankwanzi experience of about five years ago. It is as if it were yesterday; the morning runs, the classes, the discipline (orders), the drills, singing and those things typical of National Leadership Institute (NALI). And all of a sudden, a boda boda rider rams onto the side of our car with a female passenger. He gathers his boda boda and scatters.
When the fire burns for everyone - The Observer Media Ltd (opens the original)
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I’m being cheered on by two amazing ladies from Nyamiyaga and our conversation flips from humour, to curiosity, to interests, to discovery, to compliments and then to something of interest; equity/ equality of man and woman and a bait is thrown and from their point of view, this African aspect is true; in our homes, the fire is never lit by one hand. You see in African setups; a woman bends to arrange the charcoal. A man searches for dry wood. A child blows gently into the smoke with watery eyes
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