The Eye Uganda                                                                                                                                                                                        

The Eye is a free bi-monthly magazine containing listings and directories, maps, reviews, tour and travel information plus articles of interest. It highlights everything to do with Uganda, from hospitals to hotels,shops to sporting events and from embassies to entertainment. It is distributed for readers and advertisers through national and regional airlines and tour operators, the airport information office, foreign diplomatic missions and NGOs, selected restaurants and bars, supermarkets and gift shops, all major hotels in Uganda, the Uganda Golf Club and government offices including the Uganda Wildlife Authority.

Articles in This Issue

Adventure Sport in Jinja Bujagali

	So much of our time spent in our lives is spent working and more often than not we don’t really get the opportunity to get to know our work colleagues as well as we would like or should do. People generally behave very differently at the workplace to the way they behave at home or outside of work, so to get to know each other better.                                                                                                                                         More
Lodge Review: Apoka Safari Lodge
	Recently I joined a group of tour operators on a trip to the new Apoka Safari Lodge, in Kidepo Valley National Park.  I knew nothing about the region, and had no idea what to expect.  All I knew was that we would be flying there, and that Kidepo is about as far from Kampala as you can get without a passport.                                More
Restaurant Review: Fez Basserie & Wine Bar
	Emin Pasha was truly one of the most extraordinary characters in Uganda's history. A Doctor, Naturalist and Linguist. A German, a Christian, a Muslim, and an African at heart, Emin Pasha was a truly unique character among all the bravado and machismo of the colonial age. The Emin Pasha Hotel meets this definition and character.                                                                                                                                   More
Cultural Review: The Ndere Center
	When you pass by the reception hall of Ndere Centre on Ntinda-Kisaasi Road, you will have the feeling that you have arrived on a peaceful island. It is not only the unique architectural design and the nice gardens, it is the atmosphere of Ugandan culture and art which makes you want to stay in this place.                                      More
Health Review : Malaria, Mozzies & a Mzungu
	Christmas is coming, the bazungu are getting fat, and all the new arrivals will be off to the game parks with visitors from Europe and America escaping the cold and rain. Or snow. And all asking the same question: what about malaria?                  More
Charity: The National Lake Rescue Institute
	If you hadn’t read about the NLRI or perhaps are new in Uganda, a quick recap. The NLRI was started in 2002 by a small group of local businessmen post the crash of a light aircraft in Lake Victoria in 2000.                                                                               More
Education: ‘The Gap Year’
	Although many students still go straight from school to university or training college, the popularity of taking a ‘year off’ or ‘gap year’ is growing, particularly in the developed world.                                                                                                                       More
Book Review: Black Girl / White Girl
	Oates’s latest offering, “Black Girl / White Girl,” is no exception. Based, she explained in a recent interview, on “an actual sequence of events that took place in a college dormitory in the 1970’s,” the new novel looks at race relations through the lens of an uneasy relationship between two college roommates.                              More
Rugby: Ugandan U13 "Balenzi" Travel to Twickenham
	It was another perfectly normal, hot, dusty and noisy day in Kampala when my mobile phone rang for the thirtieth time that morning. I could see it was a UK call but the number was new to me - another cold-calling sales rep who had gleaned my number off the Internet and was now trying to unload redundant electrical engineering hardware on Africa no doubt.                                                                        More