Msomi Podcast

Patience Kemigisha a women rights activists spent a night with traders who had to sleep in the market following the 42 days lockdown. She has never slept in the market before.  What was her experience?

Catherine Nazige a market trader at Nakawa market narrates her experience of living in the market. Sanitation is poor, low customer turn out and what about those women with young children?

Susan Tafumba share her story on how she is dealing with childcare and borrowing to keep her business running in Nakawa market where she sleeps as a result of the lockdown.

As the lockdown hits hard, concoctions rise as result of the panic from rising covid deaths. Vianey Kigongo a mobile money kiosk vender narrates his experience.

The experiences of Derick Ahabwe a graduate of Economics who ended up driving uber. How is he copying with the 42 days lockdown imposed by Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni

Eric Mwine-Mugaju speaks to Richard Tiwangye, a popular comedian. He is part of the comedy ensemble; Fun Factory in Kampala Uganda popularly known for his Amos act. 

He shares his experience on how he has even become even more popular during the second lockdown in Uganda.

Derick is an economics graduate, but has had to drive Uber since he couldn't find a job since his graduation. Uber is currently not allowed to operate for the next 42 days (from 18th June to 30th July). How is Derick surviving the lockdown? He narrates his experiences plus other stories of herbal concoctions that people are turning to. 

As third wave of COVID-19 hits many countries , Uganda has been forced to implement a second lockdown as cases continue to spike. In this special podcast, we speak to Vianney Kigongo who owns a money mobile business in Kampala. How is he and his clientele coping with the current lockdown? 

Journalist Eric Mwine-Mugaju, a Ugandan based in London, speaks to fellow Ugandans back home as they go through their second 42 day lockdown imposed by president Museveni. In this series, every week, we will will hear from different everyday people in Uganda: from a woman trader who is having to sleep at the marketplace for the next 42 days to a money mobile businessman who claims there is a curious rise in the use of  illicit herbal concoctions. Hit play for the first episode and tune in every Sunday  for many more episodes in the next 42 days.

From around 70,000 negatives discovered from the archives of the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC), the images in this remarkable collection were taken by Amin’s personal photographers between the 1950s and mid-1980s. Professor Derek Peterson Derek Petersen is Professor of History, African and Afroamerican Studies at the University of Michigan and Abiti Nelson the curator of ethnography and history at Uganda Museum  talk to journalist Eric Mwine-Mugaju and gives fascinating insights into the ways Amin hoped to promote Uganda through a range of previously unseen photos.