Msomi Podcast: Recent Episodes
Eric Mwine-Mugaju
Msomi podcast produces a mixture of news, satire and insightful observation on African social and political affairs thought story telling.
Hosted by Eric Mwine Mugaju, he and guests articulate African-centred perspectives conversations and analysis, covering African culture, music, sport and business stories.
Our quest speakers are united by a common belief in independent thought and the need for quality discussion and debate on African affairs.
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.
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.
Tanzania is going to the polls on the 28th October, 2020. Uganda goes in 2021 and Kenya in 2022. In this first pod, Eric (Ugandan) Kwame (Kenyan) Godlisten (Tanzania) discuss the opposition opposition chances.
Msomi hosts part two of Two East East African and a Chadian discussing the so-called Informal sector is predicted to be hit the the most by the current lockdowns that have swept the world. The two East Africans and a Chadian speak to speak special guests across the continent about the impact of Covid-19 on small business and international relations.
Msomi featuring a guest podcast: Two East Africans and a Chadian give their unsolictied opinion on current affairs across the Africa.
Every 3rd of June Christian pilgrims across East Africa and beyond complete their journey to Namugongo, a suburb in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, to pay their respects to long-dead Christian converts who suffered public execution at the hands of Kabaka (King) Mwanga II of Buganda (1868-1903).
The story of the Uganda Martyrs is well known, and for readers, it is often the victor’s version of the story that is within reach. The government of Uganda, local and international media continue to cash in on the tragedy of the martyrs and the teenage king that ordered their execution. This is a podcast exploring the the contested narratives of the Martyrs and the young King.
The current president of the republic Uganda Yoweri Museveni has been in power for 32 years (by 2018). Idi Amin ruled for just 8 years. 40 year after Idi Amin’s military government fell from power, he remains the most widely-known Ugandan in the world and in history. When Ugandans travel to study or live in any part of the world, they are more likely to hear, “Ah, Uganda? Idi Amin!” than any other first comment. Stories from Abroad.
Stories of Idi Amin such as his alleged cannibalism, even that of him sacrificing his own son Moses although dubious and now well known to have been desperate and made up stories were common in classrooms and locally produced movies. These were commonly told stories that Hollywood would later seize upon to add a juicy twist to its own scripts. After 40 years, "Aminism" lives on. Through a combination of populist charm and violence that shocked many, he ruled for eight years until his strategic blunders brought him down. How was legacy taught in schools and portrayed in cinema and popular culture?
It seems to me that no African leader has generated as much intrigue as Idi Amin Dada, the self-styled conqueror of the British Empire and Ugandan dictator. Amin was cruel and unusual, but not uniquely so. So why has he earned a uniquely infamous status in the horrible dictators’ hall of fame? and why did our parents narrate his story as harmless rather than using scare us? Hit play to find out.
African countries have had many leaders with great and controversial personalities. Mandela, Mobutu, Thomas Sankara, Gaddafi, Lumumba and many other have all carved their unique place in history. Yet facts and figures often have little to do with how these people are remembered and with many, the politics, myth and actuality of their lives become entangled. In a four part podcast series, Eric Mwine-Mugaju explores the narration of stories of Idi Amin in collective memory, from a comical character for children, a controversial nationalist, to a dictator and subject of so many films which also wins him sympathisers to cement his place in popular consciousness half a world and century away.