Articles Recycled Amusement: A Ugandan Playground of Water Bottles Eco-artist Ruganzu Bruno Tusingwire will use a prize from TED to create a water-bottle playground in Kampala, UgandaJulie Ma09 Jul, 2012
Articles Uniting World Cultures Through Children's Literature Teach Twice educates children and their communities through stories and the exchange of culture.Jillian Anthony16 Jun, 2012
Articles Joseph Kony and the Moral Ambiguity of the Modern World The film everyone's talking about reminds us that hardly anything is black and white anymore.Cord Jefferson14 Mar, 2012
Articles Don't Reduce Uganda to a Meme Shouldn’t I be happy the Kony 2012 campaign has finally drawn U.S. attention to a long-running conflict in my ancestral home? Actually, I'm angry.Patrick Kigongo11 Mar, 2012
Articles 'There's a Rabid Hunger to Criticize': A 'Kony 2012' Creator Defends the Film A 'Kony 2012' Creator Defends the Film The most popular internet video in years has sparked tears and controversy. We talked to one guy who started the madness.Cord Jefferson11 Mar, 2012
Welcome to Kawempe: Photos of Social Enterprise in Uganda Visit Kawempe, a slum outside of Kampala, Uganda, where social enterprise is providing economic opportunity and fighting disease.Becky Straw03 Oct, 2011
Articles The Avon of Africa: How Micro-Entrepreneurs Can Fight Poverty Joy Twinomusasizi found dignity, income and the chance to help her community thanks to an organization that supports micro-entrepreneurs.Becky Straw01 Oct, 2011
Articles UN Comes Out for Gay Rights for the First Time in History Bigots are a dying breed: The United Nations has come out for gay rights for the fist time in its nearly 70-year history.Cord Jefferson23 Jun, 2011
Articles Question Box: Bringing the Power of the Internet to People Without Computers Question Box: Bringing the Power of the Internet to People Without Computers Rose Shuman is bringing the life-saving value of a fast Google-type search to even the most remote parts of the globe.Alex Goldmark07 Jun, 2011
Articles "I Was Itching Like a Crackhead": Study Finds College Students Addicted to Media Students across the globe can't function without media for even 24 hours without experiencing addiction-like withdrawal symptoms.Liz Dwyer11 Apr, 2011
Articles Teach a Man to Make Drugs: Pharmaceutical Companies Invest in African Generic Drug Plant An $80 million investment in Africa producing generic drugs will make treatment more widely available.Ann Marie Gardner07 Feb, 2011
Articles Kitintale: Yann Gross's Vision of Skateboarding in Uganda Last year, we ran a Picture Show of Yann Gross's photographs of Uganda's only skate park. If you liked that, you should check out this trailer...Patrick James23 Mar, 2010
Articles Help Support Invisible Children: Bring The Polyphonic Spree to Uganda In 2003, a small team of Southern California filmmakers made a gritty documentary exposing the chilling reality of the child soldier epidemic...Maria Popova10 Mar, 2010
Articles Anti-gay Advocates Confused When Anti-gay Rhetoric Taken Seriously In Uganda, the government is contemplating a law that would punish homosexuality with death. Apparently, this law was inspired by three American...Morgan Clendaniel06 Jan, 2010
Articles Who Should Feed Hungry School Kids? This is a question being raised in Uganda right now, where close to a million schoolkids are literally starving, and where the teachers' union is...Siobhan O'Connor21 Oct, 2009