Joachim Buwembo

Nov 16, 2024 | theeastafrican.co.ke | Joachim Buwembo

It is possible that the news most Africans followed beyond their borders were the US election outcome and Equatorial Guinea’s finance guy who encroached on hundreds of high profile married women. What we need to figure out is what value we gained by following and discussing those two issues. It could turn out that they were both equally not very useful to us.

Nov 11, 2024 | theeastafrican.co.ke | Joachim Buwembo

If you have a son, would you like him to grow into a man who begs from the neighbours to feed his family? Hopefully not. If as an adult you seek material support from friends and even enemies, there could be an explanation for your economic or attitudinal challenges. Maybe you are physically disabled, or you think your stepmother bewitched you. But whatever you attribute your wretchedness to, your son shouldn’t end up in such indignity of begging to feed his children and clothe his wife.

Nov 2, 2024 | theeastafrican.co.ke | Joachim Buwembo

It seems we are back to the cold war days. But this time it is not blatantly over the ideology politics that deployed thousands of spies working for either the US-led Western bloc and those for the Soviet-led Eastern bloc to hunt each other down in virtually all the cities of the world. The imposition and support of the most obnoxious, bloodthirsty and corrupt dictators on African nations also characterised that era.

Oct 27, 2024 | theeastafrican.co.ke | Joachim Buwembo

Chewing sugar cane is hard, very hard! If sugar canes were talking persons, they would ceaselessly proclaim that being chewed is very hard, and very painful. In return for his hard work (so hard that some nutritionist claimed that the energy a sugar cane consumer spends chewing it is less than what he derives from the liquid ‘meal’) the chewer is rewarded with the sweetness that the cane surrenders to him as he chews it.

Oct 19, 2024 | theeastafrican.co.ke | Joachim Buwembo

A month or two away from the fifth anniversary of the Coronavirus outbreak, you might be tempted to wonder what reflections will be going on in the minds of Africa’s top 50-something leaders and their advisers! But it might be an idle thought, seeing the escalating bickering amongst states on the continent over transport systems, trade (mal)practices, (problematic) sharing of natural resources and outright geopolitical jostling — all of which seem to indicate that we don’t ‘waste’ too much...