The Kamugasa Challenge is an online blog for sharing thoughts with the intention of inspiring our own and the next generation to turn challenges into coherent and meaningful solutions, focusing on humanity, leadership, and citizenship. Publishing on a bi-monthly basis, every second Monday, the blog will feature compelling articles, essays, stories, letters, poems, interviews, podcasts, videos, and others – the equivalent of lighting a lamp so that others may light up their lamps by it.
Anyone who really cares about what we do can either publish as a ‘guest blogger’ on our blog or be a ‘guest’ on the Conversations with Stephen Kamugasa podcast. If you wish to publish with us or be a guest on our podcast, you must, in addition to sharing our vision, agree to the following terms.
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Announcements 2025:
The episode “Reimagining The Media In A Liberal Democracy In The Digital And AI Age” of Conversations with Stephen Kamugasa was recently featured in the influential industry publication Podnews. The feature praised our newsworthy conversation with author Alex Renton about his book, Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family Story of Slavery, where he discusses uncovering his family’s ties to British Caribbean slavery and the resulting impact on modern inequality.
We are proud to highlight “Speaking Truth to Power: The Moral Imperative of Whistleblowing for Climate Scientists”, an essential essay featured in The New Climate on Medium. This thought-provoking piece challenges the traditional role of the climate scientist, arguing that in the face of accelerating environmental catastrophe and the deliberate suppression of data by powerful actors, objective reporting is no longer sufficient. Instead, the author contends that a scientist’s primary ethical duty is to planetary welfare, positioning whistleblowing not as an act of defiance, but as a necessary moral imperative to bypass systemic obstructions and force the critical truth of the climate crisis into the public sphere. Read the full essay on Medium here.
We are honoured to announce that Conversations with Stephen Kamugasa has been recognised by One Million Podcasts as one of the top 40 podcasts on the topic of refugees. This distinction affirms our commitment to fostering thoughtful dialogue and promoting global citizenship. We are proud to stand alongside other leading voices who are shaping the important conversations around displacement, dignity, and belonging.
Announcement 2024:
The New Climate on Medium is the only publication for climate action, covering the environment, biodiversity, net zero, renewable energy, and regeneration approaches.
As of May 2023, Stephen Kamugasa is a writer for The New Climate. A few of his contributions are listed below:
- Why A Great Teacher Is Critical In A Climate Crisis: With lessons learned from COP28, we must break down the ‘Climate Crisis’ into manageable portions – starting with education.
- Challenging Africa’s Toxic Image: Despite the 2023 Africa Climate Summit and the Africa Union, a negative perception of Africa persists. This has Climate Consequences.
- How To Report Climate Change To A Sceptical Public: Modern Media has caused the public to lose confidence in climate change reporting – how can we turn it around.
- The Survival Of The Pangolin Is Critical To Biodiversity. Click here.
- How To Get Social Justice And Climate Justice Done: Lesson from Uganda: social justice and climate justice are two sides of the same coin.
Mr President: Now Is The Right Time To Talk – An open letter to the President of Uganda, which was originally scheduled to be published on this website on 12 April 2021; is now published on Democracy In Africa website, going live on 24 March 2021. Democracy In Africa is a platform dedicated to building a bridge between academics, policymakers, practitioners and citizens. You may read the open letter by clicking here.
“Nowhere to go,” a former refugee’s perspective on mentorship” by Stephen Kamugasa – published in the 2019 Summer Issue of ‘Edge,’ the official journal of the Institute of Leadership in the UK. You may please look it up by visiting page 59 of the digital issue.
Uganda’s Asians were also sinners – The Sunday Times 17 /12/ 2017
The Ugandan blogger Stephen Kamugasa thinks it was a cunning British plan: “In keeping with the principle of divide and rule, Asians were quickly subsumed into the official colonial government, in which they played the role of being a buffer between the whites and black natives. They were above local …”
A Special Review:
“Stephen Kamugasa writes with authenticity and freshness. These blogs remind me of wonderful African storytellers like James Ngugi and Ben Okri who always weave through their tales, wise messages and moral observations.” Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – 2017.