This week at Munyonyo, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the Africa Union Summit: 'Twenty years ago nobody would have predicted that China and India would be the big drivers of growth and political superpowers they have become.

And there is no reason to believe the countries of Africa cannot make similar leaps in the decades to come. So I am here to speak not just of the ascent of Africa and Asia, but to say today just as people have spoken of an American century and an Asian century, I believe we can now speak of an African century'.

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Africa is rich and beautiful and there is a lot going for the continent and for the people. We may not have won the World Cup, but we organised the best ever, World Cup.

The racist white Americans have been overwhelmed by the intellectual supremacy of Barack Obama that all they can say is, 'He should go back to Kenya'.This week, a South African won a global Golf tournament. Black people all over the world are excelling in Sport and Academia.

Out of the experience of a barbaric and inhuman act in which a lot of blood was shed and many lives lost, should really be born a realisation that ultimately, we are as individuals, each other's keeper.

The calamity that befell our country on July 11 hurt all of us regardless of colour, nationality, gender, age, religion, and in the case of Ugandans, our tribes.

Apart from the same people who used to advise that if Uganda stopped supporting the self-determination of the people of Southern Sudan,

FAO representative in Kampala Percy Misika, last year told the media of how the governments of Ugandan  Japan and FAO, had made a deliberate strategic decision to focus on rice cultivation, and especially on varieties of the new NERICA rice.

"The different NERICA varieties offer a number of advantages: they grow well on the uplands and are resistant to drought while their yield is 30 percent higher than that of local varieties, and they produce a long grain rice with good flavour and high nutritional content which matures in three months or less when the rains are regular".