Arne's Observations
Arne Doornebal is a Dutch freelance journalist working out of Kampala, Uganda. For Club Africa he shares his experiences living and working as a journalist in Africa
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Proud Africans tweeting their way to fame
I wonder why I still leave my comfortable office. Go out on the streets, catch the news, talk to people. They are the things journalists have been…
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Growth, growth and even more growth
I spent the better part of the week looking for and analyzing statistics. That sounds boring, compared to covering breaking news like civil uprisings…
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Missing Mobile Money
While I was unsuccessfully defending the honour of the Dutch national soccer team (of Uganda), I missed some distressed phone calls. When I called…
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A new dawn for Kampala’s travellers
Two foreign journalists were going to visit a village in Uganda, and wanted to get there quickly. They asked their Ugandan assistant to arrange a…
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Cut off from the World
The newspaper I was then writing for splashed it on the entire front page, back in 2009. ‘This is how knowledge comes on shore,’ the headline read,…
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Building bridges with the neighbours
One day my morning started with a walk to Salongo. He is my neighbour and his name is given to everybody who fathers twins, it is like an honorary…
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The trans-Africa highway
‘Cape to Cairo’ has been a journey people dream about for centuries. Occasionally it is being undertaken. Although the infrastructure lags behind, a…
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