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You Cannot Send Someone to Fetch Water

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The Measured Prophet · Uganda · Society You Cannot Send Someone to Fetch Water The medical interns debate is not really about medicine. It is about whether Uganda is willing to back up what it has been saying to young people for the last twenty years. Segawa Elvis William June 2026 Doctors reviewing patient charts. The senior doctors are rarely seen on the ward. It is the interns who are everywhere — as Archbishop Kaziimba put it, "doing the donkey work." Yesterday, after Mass, I found myself reading a Daily Monitor article reporting remarks by Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu on the issue of medical interns and their allowances. And I felt I could not remain silent. Not because I am a doctor. Not because I am directly affected. But because this conversation is bigger than medicine. The Archbishop's question was simple: how does a government find Shs158 billion for MPs' vehicles while arguing that approxi...
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Pilgrimage Is Already a Prayer

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The Measured Prophet · Faith · Catholic Pilgrimage Is Already a Prayer This year, Ebola cancelled the crowd. What remained was the question the crowd was helping us avoid. SEGAWA ELVIS WILLIAM 4 June 2026 The Namugongo Basilica from above. That wide ground holds over half a million people on a normal June 3rd. Today it held 400. It was still Martyrs Day. "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." — 2 Timothy 4:7 "Goodbye, friends. We are on our way." Last words of Saint Kizito, age 14 — June 3, 1886 A few weeks ago on this blog I was writing about the weeks where decades happen — that dizzying feeling of watching history move faster than you can process it. Today I want to write about something that did not happen. Namugongo. The shrine. The million-person crowd that gathers every June 3rd and was this year quietly cancelled, redirected to h...
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The Weeks Where Decades Happen

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Uganda · Politics · Satire The Weeks Where Decades Happen We were told, it would be a term of no sleep. What we weren't told is that we would be the ones lying awake, refreshing a timeline, waiting to find out who is still in their chair. SEGAWA ELVIS WILLIAM  16 May 2026 Parliament House, Kampala. The chair inside is the same chair. It is only the person sitting in it that keeps changing. "Buli kintu kirina ekiseera kyakyo, na buli kigambo wansi w'eggulu kirina ekiseera kyakyo." To everything there is a season — Omubuulizi (Ecclesiastes) 3:1 Since Tuesday, this country has not rested. One thing has been happening, and then before you can sit with it, another happens. The President stood up on Tuesday and told us this is a five-year term of no sleep. Now, I do not believe anybody in this country has slept properly since as far as I can go, so in that sense it is not news. But from this side of Mukono, where w...
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A Parliament of 529 Jokes

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Uganda · Politics · Satire A Parliament of 529 Jokes While the cameras were busy at Kololo, something quieter and, frankly, funnier was happening on Parliament Avenue. SEGAWA ELVIS WILLIAM 15 May 2026 Parliament House, Kampala. The most expensive comedy club in East Africa. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." — Proverbs 29:18 "Awali ennyama, wewaba n'enswera." Where there is meat, there are flies — Luganda S o President Museveni was sworn in on Tuesday, and the country has not stopped talking about it. Good. Let him have his Tuesday. Today I want to talk about Wednesday  and Thursday, and Friday  because while the cameras were busy at Kololo, something quieter and, frankly, funnier was happening at Parliament House on the Avenue. Five hundred and twenty-nine grown men and women have been queuing up, alphabetically, to swear an oath. Five. Hundred. And. Twenty-nine. My friend, the en...
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