Olemo
“Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
“You cannot change what you do not understand.”
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
Purpose
Building Community
Dear Comrade,
My work begins with the question: how should we live together in a world that none of us have an exclusive claim to? I am therefore concerned with how we can exercise greater agency and develop ourselves without losing one another in the process.
The future of our communities (local, national and global) depends on our actions and inactions today. The work of building community is a collective one and it is largely one of sacrifice. It is also heavily knowledge-dependent and so imposes a greater burden on us to learn. This is all undergirded by the firm belief that the future we desire is possible since in the final analysis, the world is indeed what we make it.
Karibu!
Books
Leaders & Schemers
A Political, Intellectual and Spiritual Itinerary
In this memoir, my first book, I trace twenty years of formation — from my hometown Apac in northern Uganda, to Johannesburg, South Africa — through the classrooms, dormitories, and debate halls of some of Africa's most elite institutions. I reckon with how those spaces shaped me and those around me while asking the question: What does it take to live a life of consequence and what is the difference between a leader and a schemer?