Lead The Uganda Blogging Community to Greater Heights.

by UgBloc Admin - October 24, 2020October 26, 20200

Last year, around this time, I took on the leadership of the Uganda Blogging Community. I must say, it was a rather scary role, seeing that I loved the background volunteering under the great inspiration of Roland. But yeah, I took it on like a winner, held my head high

Day One of the Online Blogging Class Went on Successfully. #UGBLOGCLASS

by UgBloc Admin - April 29, 2020April 29, 20201

So today, we kicked off our first ever online blogging workshop. We must say, the line-up of facilitators is great. The initiative is a series of workshops to help grow blog in Uganda and Africa. The first one is going to run for three days; from Wednesday 29th April to

#UgBlogMonth April/May 2020

by UgBloc Admin - April 18, 202040

Bloggren, the #UgBlogMonth is upon us. Warm greetings from us to you, Bloggren. We hope you are not too adversely affected by the COVID19 pandemic and the extension of the Lock down. We also hope you are staying safe and sanitized, because someone has got to document the brilliant stories in your mind. Don't

July 2019 #UgBlogMonth #ChainStoryChallenge Edition

by UgBloc Admin - July 1, 2019July 1, 20192

Hello Uganda Blogging Community. We come with good tidings of the second blog week of 2019. And because the FOMO is that much, we are just going to blurt it out…we are doing another chain story challenge…woot-woot!! We last did one in 2017 and those that participated had so much fun

#UgBlogWeek August 2018: Off The Record Legacies

by UgBloc Admin - August 13, 2018August 14, 20182

It's officially the art festival season in Uganda and August is proving to be the busiest month on the scene. It kicked off with the Bayimba Music Festival from 2 - 5th August (check out this review by Beewol) at their new home on Lake Victoria. The Babisahi Poetry Festival

May ’18 #UBHH: Conversations On Photography And Blogging

by UgBloc Admin - May 29, 2018May 29, 20180

To begin with, sorry for the long break and irregularity with the happy hours. We are back now and intend to be better at putting together these monthly meetups. For the May edition, the topic is photography and blogging. With the advances in phone camera's, there's increasingly no excuse for one

Abyssinian Nomad Book Talk and Q&A with author Maskarm Haile

by UgBloc Admin - March 5, 2018March 5, 20180

Maskarm Haile recently published a travel memoir "Abyssinian Nomad" An African woman's Journey of Love, Loss, and Adventure from Cape to Cairo. She is currently in Kampala to promote the book. and UgBloC is honoured to co-host a book talk and Q&A with her. We are therefore calling out to

#UBHH February 2018 Edition – #CelebratingNevender

by UgBloc Admin - February 22, 2018February 22, 20180

Our first #UBHH of 2018 is on and we shall use this to celebrate Joel Ntwatwa Nevender who passed on recently. We'll recite some of his poetry, light some candles and basically appreciate the different ways he touched our lives. Here are some of the tributes that were written about him. You

Bloggers Meet-Up with Sabina Trojanova

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by UgBloc Admin - February 8, 2018February 8, 20180

Last year, the Europian Union run a competition, Faces2Hearts, where 4 young bloggers were selected to embark on a 5-month journey across 3 continents to discover projects, supported by the EU, that change people’s lives for the better. Sabina Trojanova was one of the 4 winners and she is currently in

The #55UGBlogs Kafunda Kreative UgBloc Campaign

by UgBloc Admin - October 4, 2017October 4, 20171

Do you have a story to tell about Uganda? As a nation on 9th October 2017, Uganda celebrates 55 years of Independence. Usually that's a day we hope lands on a week day so we have the day off. This year Kafunda Kreative in partnership with Uganda Blogging Community is daring you