We wish our daughters, sisters, mothers, and friends to hold onto Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s words in The First Woman (A Girl is a Body of Water) “Water has no shape, it can be this, it can be that, depending on where it flows. The sea is inconstant, it cannot be tamed, it does not yield to human cultivation, it cannot be owned; you cannot draw borders on the ocean” Sadly, this vision does not…

Day 2 WinterABC 2025 Entry At Uganda’s new media red-earth sunrise, young griots have traded talking drums for keyboards and smartphones, weaving narratives of hope and resistance on fiber-optic savannas. Blogs and citizen media are extensions of the oral tradition now: voices that were once throttled by censorship echo across digital savannas. By the mid-2010s, commentators were noting that “the…

Day 1 WinterABC25 Entry The universe can come into existence through words; if you believe in the story of creation, you must know that God’s first creation was His Son, “the Word,” and it was through Him that all other things were created. They created the whole universe, with billions of galaxies and planets, through words over trillions of years. That includes everything we know and what we…