Category: ML Personally
The quarterly newsletter (contact us to subscribe) and other personal thoughts by ML Rwebandira, formerly known as Miha Logar. An adventure/cultural tourism expert and a multimedia producer, ML co-founded Gorilla Highlands Experts and now resides in the unofficial capital of the region, Rwanda’s Musanze. Formal education: MA in Development Studies (Uganda Martryrs University) and BA in Journalism (University of Ljubljana).
Our Stories:
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Is This Where You Come In? (Gorilla Highlands 2018-2021 and Beyond)
This is the fourteenth and final instalment of a series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. A man at peace because his mission had been accomplished, I stretched my legs and listened to the faint voices in the night. A new year…
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Just One Boda Boda Horror Story
It would be rather irresponsible to run a Staying Safe and Healthy series and not address the issue of passenger motorcycles. They are available all over the Gorilla Highlands region, parked right at the cross section of affordability, practicality, traffic accidents and crime. The temptation to jump on one is huge both in traffic-jammed cities…
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1,000 More
After two weeks of rest and reflection we are returning to our good old publishing rhythm! The Daily Dose will be with you from Monday to Friday, but that is just a fraction of what we are up to for the rest of 2021! Allow me to pull you into the second chapter of Gorilla…
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The Shock of Mount Kabuye
I looked at the mountain again and again during commutes from my Musanze home to Rwanda’s capital Kigali… It was marvellous. It was also as imposing as it gets, so it wasn’t difficult to identify it on the map: its name was Mount Kabuye. There were claims on the internet that it was the the…
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Man of Many Hats Makes It Home at Last
This is the sequel to Borderline Adventures that takes us deeper into Uganda and delivers me to my Lake Bunyonyi home… As fabulously fertile as volcanic soil is, it is also painfully porous — I saw people fetching water from communal sources again and again, as the boda boda that Gerald arranged for me was…
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Borderline Adventure of the Man of Many Hats
Dear readers and watchers, Warm greetings from a simple man who does wear many hats… You have previously read about me as a founder in female clothes, learned about me as a lonely videographer and watched me as a dad deeply proud of the school his kiddos attend. Primarily, however, I will be your tour…
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Weekly Companion — Let It Be Then?
This video has been uploaded to YouTube because countless night attempts using our private solution (Vimeo) haven’t worked out… But, on the other hand, this is also OK. Let’s have it on YouTube and publicly available then. It may not be an ideal representation of a video promoting GHE to the general audience (this version…
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Rwebandira’s 27 Hours of Your Sweet Memories
The end of this video gives me goosebumps. The words are spoken by Festo Karwemera, the Bakiga cultural warrior who passed away last year… Karwemera nicknamed me Rwebandira two decades ago, after knowing me for only a short time. Yet he couldn’t have been more prescient… He translated the name for me as a “trailblazer”…
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Too Good
Amused, bewildered or annoyed, this morning Uganda woke up to the new reality of social media taxes. Figuring out a way to pay those ridiculous daily 200 shillings (or circumvent the system) had to take priority over choosing a Sunday service outfit that your pastor may notice… This white Ugandan (OK, birders would probably call…
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