Charles Onyango-Obbo
Founder, Publisher and Writer, Africapedia Limited at Freelance
International Board Member at Article 19
Journalist I Writer I Futurist I Curator THE WALL OF GREAT AFRICANS (WoGA) https://t.co/yD7eQNxDDC• Walk like you have 3,000 ancestors walking behind you.
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1 week ago |
nation.africa | Charles Onyango-Obbo
The conclave to elect the next Pope began yesterday, following Pope Francis’s death on April 21. For no particular reason, this triggered a thought: Is the conclave more democratic than the election of an African president? A dive into the Vatican’s electoral rituals offered some enlightening (and sobering) comparisons. As of yesterday, 133 cardinals under the age of 80 were eligible and expected to vote in the conclave.
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monitor.co.ug | Charles Onyango-Obbo
Kampala’s streets buzz with the energy of restless youth. A generation is trapped in a job market that scoffs at their degrees. According to a report not too long ago in Daily Monitor, Uganda’s youth unemployment stands at a troubling 32.2 percent, with 36 percent of graduates left idle. Each year, roughly 400,000 young Ugandans enter the labour market—but only 113,000 secure formal jobs. The rest? Not all of them are waiting for salvation from above.
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2 weeks ago |
nation.africa | Charles Onyango-Obbo
When United States President Donald Trump, never one to shy away from theatrics, declared on April 26 that American ships—military and commercial—should sail through the Suez Canal without paying a cent, he did not just ruffle feathers in Cairo. For African securocrats who track these things with hawk-eyed intensity, it was a geopolitical grenade lobbed straight into the delicate choreography of Africa’s maritime affairs—one that could ignite a new era of coastal contention.
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2 weeks ago |
monitor.co.ug | Charles Onyango-Obbo
What you need to know:"We must invest now. Six percent of the budget won’t cut it.” The Daily Monitor’s April 28, 2025 story, "Babies dying, patients lost: The broken state of Lira Regional Referral Hospital," wasn’t just news — it was a scream. In 2024 alone, Lira’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit lost 180 newborns; another 101 stillbirths left a tragic cloud over 6,425 deliveries. Everything is in short supply or simply not available.
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panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo
Swahili, or Kiswahili, is East Africa’s storied coastal tongue, a heady cocktail of Bantu roots, Arabic flair, and Persian tones, brewed along the Indian Ocean’s trade winds. History books love to attribute its spread to merchants, Islamic scholars, and colonial clerks. In the raucous post-Cold War era, however, Swahili’s march across Greater East Africa and the Horn was no tidy policy triumph.
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