Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga
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Obsessive Farmer & Administrator- @RugyeyoFarmLtd | Ugandan, couldn't be anything else. Curator & Host for #NewBreed & @Bad_Natives_Pod
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.Charles Onyango-Obbo do you remember the phrase from the Clinton 92 campaign for the US Presidency that sunk George H. W? Why the architects & champions of this did not seek counsel of those who know is mind boggling. This embarrassment that the #SovereigntyBill has become could have been avoided well in advance🤷🏿♂️
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga130,049 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
When KASUKU started our conversation by saying that “those days you were fat”🤣, he was correct. And here is proof of then & now! A tribute to my running & spin communities & to the man who changed my relationship with food, Dr. Kasenene
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga110,334 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Mukulu KASUKU, ssebo,obubaka obuli wamanga wano mu katambi bwantuuseko🤣! Oli mutuufu, sirina kyembagaza era ku ttano zzamwe temumbalirako🙏! Ffe tuli bakulu mumyaka, twalyako bye twalyako. Tulina ebituluma era abasawo batujja ku biwomerera🤣, amanyo tegakyali wamu, so enyama netugivaako. Mumpisa yaffe, obuugi n’amata bibeera bya baana, ffe tujja kunywa chai mukalu🤣. Mpozzi nzikiriza nkuwabulemu. Ettano bwezijja, mugabane kyenkana. Temukubirayo bannamwe🙏
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga97,977 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
The The Bad Natives Podcast is back. We talked about what next after the upcoming election in Uganda with Andrew M. Mwenda. Doing this with Charles Onyango-Obbo as well was a tad nostalgic. Enjoy this episode & let me know if we should do another after the election BNP 041: Stability, Stagnation, Blood and Ballots: Uganda’s Museveni See... via YouTube
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga118,055 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
#RoboAt55: We did it. We partied hard. What a place to do this! Madam was there . The party crew 🇺🇬 TMS Ruge 🇺🇦 Andrew robbie9497 Fiona C. Ssozi Sharon Nabasa Ireeta (planner) JP(Ikanza) I can’t thank you enough. To all those who wished us well & prayed for good weather, Ahsante
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga190,705 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Hon. Mohammed Nsereko MP, Kampala Central has something interesting to say in Luganda🤣🤣🤣
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga160,329 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Thank you everyone who boarded the The Mutungo Madbus for the #MidnightRun. It was an out of the ordinary experience. We call it MADNESS🤣! Quick advice:normalize doing odd things🫣. Special gratitude to our partners in this-Absa Bank Uganda Castle Lite Uganda TMR International Hospital & MIGHTY RIDES for believing in our madness. The running clubs who find this worth their time-Sure & Steady Hikers Road Striders PACE ATHLETES CLUB Gutsy Bunch #Bugolobi5km/Sunny Outdoors Gogonya GoGators Fast & Furious & even those who pretended to come for the run but actually wanted to catch a ride in the G-Wagons🤣, visa officers who trusted us with your partners. The #MidnightRun is now a permanent fixture of our calendar. We shall let you know when the next one is due!
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga24,449 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
After a year of preparation, the time is finally here. On Thursday we set off for Kilimanjaro. Saturday we start the climb to Africa’s rooftop. It is the ideal place to celebrate a life of 55 years. The trek will be 5 days of introspection. And then begin to work out what next!
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga122,277 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
.Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan Sir, Londoners don’t have to suffer bad coffee anymore. The pain is over🤣. We will be at the The London Coffee Festival this week (courtesy of International Trade Centre (ITC) & UK in Uganda 🇬🇧 🇺🇬) with some of Uganda’s finest coffees, so please drop by. Options: - anaerobic fermented sundried naturals from RugyeyoFarmLtd - Barbara Mugeni has coffee grown by Ugandan rural women - Coffee grown by the elderly from zamani_coffee_ug - Kenneth Barigye will have some great tasting coffee from Mt. Elgon & Mt. Rwenzori - Coffee grown on volcanic soils at Dr. Ian Clarke’s farm You can also meet Jeremy Mpalampa of Kyagalanyi Coffee & Amos Kasigi of The Edge Trading LTD if you are looking for large volumes of Ugandan coffee. See you then
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga62,484 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Kabushenga’s Thoughts A Life of Exercise Folks, this is for those of you whose parents are my generation or older. This morning along with my guys from the The Mutungo Madbus I did the 25km segment of the Kyambogo Ultra Run. After that I went to my spin class, for another challenge where we are doing 26 classes for the month of May. My guys in both communities keep asking why I am doing this to myself. They think I am overdoing it & punishing myself. The answer is simple. A life of exercise like the one I live, is a hack against chronic illness. It significantly reduces chances of this happening by a wide margin. If it occurs, a person in good physical shape has a better fighting chance of curing or at least obviating the worst effects. So what is my point? It is cheaper to do this than pay for medical treatment for chronic illness. So rather than dealing with the burden of fundraising for this & pain of nursing parents that are ill. If in fact you get your parents to switch to a life of exercise and change thier relationship with food, you will avoid this. I am not suggesting a crazy regime like mine. No. Just a daily walk, a cycling class, a nutrition approach that improves one’s metabolic health, good sleep, good content(reading books) & good company, will save you from stress of what I described earlier. The medical option should be complete last resort and you can do this. Share what I have posted with your folks. Have a lovely weekend
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga10,767 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Today is 56th!! Madam took me out to lunch with Mishaya in Bwindi (frame 2 & 3). The celebration started with a Kiga dance at Buhoma Ride 4 A Woman lodge & a trek thru the forest from Kanungu to Gisoro. Thanks Nkwanzi Travel for always making my experiences memorable.
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At the end of 2025, we tried out a a new conversation with those we felt represented a future view of Uganda’s politics. What was meant to be a short project is now our commitment for 2026. Fiona Kemi & I have decided to bring you other new voices on the The New Breed Podcast UG. Follow us.
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga25,792 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
The ComradesRace is done. Now for the GRATITUDE; 1. Wife & Kids: former breadwinner 🤣keeps finding other ways to make you proud! 2. Two Friends: Moses Rutahigwa, Nassejje Ritah & Simon Kaheru-may God reward you for your generosity 🙏🏿 3. My Coaches: Rahim Ramah my spin coach - the endurance training, Coach Edmund of Veritas Gym in Ntinda/Kigoowa- the best strength trainer I have worked with 4. Janet Nakkazi & Robert Bellarmine Okudi for pushing me to do this 5. Anita Komukama our support system on the run & especially for 🎥 our moments of pride 6. Kampala’s Recreational Runners- #XRS(Twitter Running School, TeamMatooke, #MutungoMadBus, Fast & Furious Gutsy Bunch Road Striders @Kyewaggula_Home Kampala Hash House Harriers Kyanja Crew 🏃♀️ Marco's Gym & Spa UG Activate Uganda @surehikers2023, #TeamNakasero-what a wonderful community to be a part of 🙏🏿! You have made this journey so much fun And finally to you guys who follow my craze, thank you for the positive energy. Keep it flowing. Blessings to you all
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga69,926 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Our neighbors are doing all the right things to make their coffee work for their country & benefit their farmers. Here we are using coffee as an excuse to take money out of the national treasury for personal gain. A false promise that is simply a scam. We must take matters into our hands. No one is coming to save us
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga36,172 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Folks, it is election season in Uganda & campaigning is in full flight. My civic duty this time is to bring you the #NewBreed of Ugandan leaders. You will meet the young politicians that are vying for public office. The ones that will shape what Uganda will be in the next 20 years. Where, why & how do they plan to take our beloved Uganda? Do they have what it takes to take us there? We will find out every Monday at 8 pm starting November 3rd, here on my X Spaces. I also have another duty to discharge. To pass on the baton of curating public debate. After 25 years, it is time to hand over. And so I will be doing this with a #NewBreed moderator, Fiona Kemi who I trust has the temperament to do this. Together we will get you to appreciate the #NewBreed, The Next Generation of Leaders, unfiltered
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga22,969 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
This Week in Ugandan Coffee Day Four & Five It took me coming to Geneva to learn a business model that has been hiding in plain sight back home in Uganda. I call this The Alchemist Effect. After the book by Brazilian writer, Paulo Coelho. The point he makes in the book is that we travel long distances in search of answers that are within us. This I learnt from listening to my colleagues James Muhangi and Pison Kukundakwe who manage huge and hugely successful coffee cooperatives in south western Uganda. It turns out that Rubanga Coffee Rubanga Co-operative Society Ltd and Ankole Coffee have the business model that delivers value to the boards majority of the coffee sector players-the farmer and leaves something for the trader as well. There is one thing I need to make abundantly clear. The Ugandan farmer who is the producer and owner of the coffee has only one opportunity to extract the most value-at the farm gate. This is it. At this point the farmer receives the financial value of their produce. If they are to command higher value that is further downstream means they have to invest in aggregation, processing, packaging, marketing and distribution. This requires immense upfront financial outlays long before the value can be recouped. What this means is that the only factors a farmer can control are the on his farm. It is here that they can determine the kind of product and quantity they can bring to market. This therefore means that the farmer has to understand the market for which they should produce. Enter the James/Pison lightbulb moment from yesterday and the training about specialty coffee at International Trade Centre (ITC). When you are at the farm and dealing with local traders, they are at once the buyer and the market. But they don’t need to be. It turns out that the two cooperatives have gone out of their way to craft a production process and do their own local aggregation with a view to selling in the lucrative specialty market. Listening to them and to our facilitator about this unique market I reached a conclusion about what producers like me in Uganda need to do in order to get more value for their effort. We need to decide which market we are producing for. To do so, we must know exactly what they want. So if you are looking at the speciality market, quality and unique ways of crafting the profile of the beans is central. If however you choose the commercial volumes route, then you put your money where you are going to get more quantity out of the trees. These deliberate choices puts the coffee farmer in a stronger bargaining position. It is what we should focus on. The support we would need is agronomy, working capital and market access initiatives. This is where higher authorities should invest public funds and time if the coffee is to benefit the many and the country. The rest is distractive noise
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga14,233 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
#MutungoMadMidnightRun Guys, thank you so much for coming to our #MidnightRun. It was wonderful for the The Mutungo Madbus to host you for a #HealthyNightOut. We will do it again before the year ends & then in 2026 it will be quarterly. Let us know what you would like us to do to make this even better. Gutsy Run. Live. Laugh. TeamMatooke PACE ATHLETES (M.R.C) Sure & Steady Hikers Team Together NAKASERO BOYS Road Striders Kyewaggula Athletics Club Activate Uganda Moses Rutahigwa Janet Nakkazi
Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga26,852 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
This Monday evening at 8 PM on my #AfricanSpeak Spaces I host Peter Kimbowa. Peter is a reknown leadership coach & financial management advisor. I will want you to benefit from his advice on how to plan your financial behavior for 2025. Set a reminder. Spread the word. Log on
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