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A User’s Guide to Conferences

By Esther Dyson All participants should identify for themselves or their organisation what the purpose of the conference is This is conference season – a critical time for building brands, making connections, and shaping industries. Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage …

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Why Baganda celebrated on May 24

By Kavuma-Kaggwa This time, commemoration of Buganda’s ` day of darkness’ had special significance On May 24, 2014 the Baganda from all areas of Buganda converged at Mengo Palace to remember May 24, 1966, the day of “darkness”, when Milton Obote, who was the Executive Prime Minister, ordered his troop …

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The real Joyce Banda

By Elizabeth J. Walt & John Dabney The power to surrender power When President Joyce Banda spoke at Nelson Mandela’s funeral this past December, she reflected on what she believed to be the most important thing that she had learned from Madiba, “leadership is about falling in love with the …

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Ageing at their own peril

By Ahmadou Moustapha Ndiaye Can Uganda’s pension system contribute to reducing vulnerabilities? Today, Uganda has 15 million people in its workforce. Out of these, 2.5 million are employed in formal wage jobs. Around 750,000 employees (all in formal jobs) qualify for retirement benefits under the country’s current pension system. The …

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