Re-landing with Obuntu

The Voice of Care: Restoring Our Capacity for Community Stewarding

How feminine energy awakened what masculine energy had silenced, and why building infrastructures of care is essential for thriving communities

Aug 18 • 

Abdul Semakula

May 2025

Narratives of Land Use and Urban Regeneration in Kampala (Kiwaatule Focus)

Kampala’s planners and communities can begin to weave a more coherent narrative – one that honors land as living heritage and commons, even as it…

May 5 • 

Abdul Semakula

A letter from Kiwaatule 2030

If Obuntu is the heartbeat of life, and Kiwaatule is the drum (of joy) then each plot-owner in Kiwaatule 2025 is a beat in the rhythm that shapes me …

May 2 • 

Abdul Semakula

Reawakening Kiwaatule’s Spirit

What will rebirthing Kiwaatule’s potential in an urban context look like?

May 1 • 

Abdul Semakula

April 2025

The Lone Avocado Tree

A fable of collective land stewarding for urban regeneration.

Apr 30 • 

Abdul Semakula

Reawakening Obuntu

I Am Obuntu. I was born by the land to steward the land.

Apr 30 • 

Abdul Semakula

November 2024

A New Land Tenure System Struggles to Emerge from Its Parent.

The Mutuba Tree: Reflecting, Inspiriting, Transforming.

Nov 25, 2024 • 

Abdul Semakula

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October 2023

Leveraging the price point to inspire Market Pre-distribution.

“And anything that falls outside that price contract is called an “externality.” So pre-distributing at the price level internalises other capitals…

Oct 15, 2023 • 

Abdul Semakula

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Building our capacity to self-organise around common interests.

We can't build a participatory democracy infrastructure without common assets or resources that people interact with on a daily. Community Financial…

Oct 11, 2023 • 

Abdul Semakula

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July 2023