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Maya Angelou, celebrated poet, writer and civil rights activist died on Wednesday, in her home in Winston-Salem, NC. She was 86. Angelou wrote lyrical prose of her childhood in the Jim Crow South, including her autobiography “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.” Reading her life story feels like you’re reading [...]

Image:designhack.net By David Okwi, Editor in Chief Dignited.com (formerly Techpost.ug) We’ve heard it time and again how Africa is touted as a “mobile-first” continent from numerous blog posts and mobile conferences. In fact, basing on success stories such as Kenya’s M-pesa, some have even gone to greater length of calling Africa a “mobile-only” space. There’s no doubt that mobile is big in Africa. The continent has been hailed for leapfrogging the technological evolutionary curve by embracing mobile technologies that bring affordable communication and financial services even in the remotest parts of the continent. Mobile operators have contributed significantly to the GDPs of African countries. For instance, in Uganda, MTN Uganda is the biggest tax contributor beating oil companies like shell and Total. Yet, with such optimism in the industry, developers have no chance of eating some of the pie! Mobile is not like the web I know they won’t tell you this at any of those mobile co

According to the locals, it's the bar capital of the world, with more than 12,000 catering for the five million citizens of Brazil's third city. Others will recall Belo Horizonte as the scene of England's most humiliating football defeat, when a hearse driver and teacher from the US stunned the national team at the 1950 World Cup. But if the 5,000 or so English ticket holders expected here for England's final group game against Costa Rica in a few weeks' time look a little more closely, they may remember it for something else. As is the case across Brazil, peer behind the mask and another reality stares back at you.

President Museveni has urged Ugandans to develop a savings culture if they are to become rich like him

A campaign to block Uganda’s Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa from becoming president of the UN General Assembly (UNGA)is gaining international momentum following a call by US lawmakers and rights campaigners

By Ellen Banda- Aaku (on behalf of the Judging panel 2014 Writivism Short Story prize). It was a pleasure to read all the stories on the long list. The themes of the stories were varied however man...

By Stuart G-khast 10. His first rap name was “ZEUS THEODORE” before he changed it to his current stage name GNL Zamba where GNL stands for Greatness of No Limit and Zamba is his real botanical name. 9. GNL has performed...

Zaire’s music chased Western pop out of Africa…but Mobutu failed with the economy after urging party members to ‘take a little, but not too much’.

We need Nkrumah-Nasser type leaders who will build a bridge across the Sahara again.

For the first time Cape Verde in 2012 had zero deaths caused by malaria…and in Eritrea deaths caused by the disease plummeted by 96%.

Government is under intense pressure from the private sector to slash taxes that have rendered businesses uncompetitive in the East African Community Common Market..

Drama ensued at Gulu University main campus on Friday when NRM students turned rowdy at a party campaign over failure to get enough refreshments and allowances, a claim the party denies

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The current Uganda Police Air Wing cannot carry out search and rescue missions because it is ill-equipped, the Daily Monitor has learnt