EKAKORO FREDRICK ETOORI

HERE TO INSPIRE: Leadership, the cornerstone of social cohesion; gr... : Flashing back to the then days when I was a little young boy, I always heard of people call themselves leaders some of them were praised b... "where there's always prejudice and preconceived bias, however much you try to be good, you will always be bad"

Flashing back to the then days when I was a little young boy, I always heard of people call themselves leaders some of them were praised by society. They owned about two or three fair permanent or semi permanent houses with their children going to fairly established schools and their diet was not the ordinary one. So much often, I would see them rub shoulders with their averagely or absolutely poor and defenceless neighbours who owned almost close to nothing. Many of those poor ones had lost some portion of their land to those so called leaders or they later lost everything. Their lives were in danger as some of them actually died mysteriously.  Through my socialisation process from primary school to university and to the work environment, I have not only been perturbed by the word “ leader ” as those I have come across certainly do not seem to be distinct from the “ village leaders” that I have known with their selfish and heinous   actions. One of my vivid experiences ...

  “Hope is that thing in us that keeps saying that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach it” President Barrack Obama in his 2007 campaign speeches. There is certainly no human in this world that has no problems, but our problems/ challenges seem to be heightened by our own minds. One wise man once said, “Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.” Every day, we wake up with many demands, little or no money to get going and or no one to offer a hand. The great obstacle to success in life is not the lack of ideas, but the presence of hopelessness. Lack of a positive belief that one day, one time, something better shall happen. The great majority of people have ideas, but do have little hope to either believe that it can work or even to start. Hope is when you see nothing tangible in your disposure and you still believe that one day, you will have it. Hope is when life seems almost ending, but having the belief that thin...

when one of my uncles invited me to a meeting in his home in Bweyogerere a Kampala suburb, my thoughts were divided and my decision to attend rested upon a friend with whom I was hanging out that Saturday. “Go and attend the meeting” she emphasized. Yet in my heart, I felt that not attending it would have been worthwhile in restoring my happiness indicating that being present in that meeting would have reawakened the bitter thoughts in my life about the past three years of my dreaded life.     When my friend pressed a lot for me to attend the meeting, I thought twice and said, “fine, I shall attend” but even then, I wasn’t very certain of the agenda of the meeting.  In about a half hours time, I had left Ntinda and arrived in Bweyogerere. On entering the house, the place seemed lifeless. I dashed into the sitting room and found the meeting was underway to conclusion. “You are not late. My uncle acclaimed. Welcome and have a seat” he said in a jovial mood. Seemi...

Perhaps it was then that growing up a boy was one of the most interesting and wonderful part of life. To any young man today, it may be a little different and quit cumbersome to think that may be at one point in time, all shall be well. With the fruits of women emancipation yielding well to the extent that now every family has a girl up to a certain level of education, the future is seemingly becoming harrowing and mind boggling to think that education will better any man’s life. The life of a young man today is that that he has to endure the daunting moments of heckling from the opposite sex many of whom always think they are mature enough. The young man of today unlike one of those days, must struggle amid many forces against them to strive to achieve to the expectation and measure of the same opposite sex that believes that they are empowered. The young man of today, despite being denied 1.5 additional points to enter university has got to struggle to do the course...

SIX THINGS TO BEAR IN MIND ABOUT THE WORLD AROUND US "where there's always prejudice and preconceived bias, however much you try to be good, you will always be bad"