Achilees Lukonge is a Professional Social worker, Economist, Historian and IT expert. He is respected Author and Advocate of Economic, Social, and Spiritual empowerment for Children, girl child, disabilities, and Vulnerable poor. Working with multiple non-profit organizations, His Social and Humantarian work has reached the lives of thousands of children, young mothers, and youth in Uganda. Achilees' most recent initiatives include founding Give a hand to the Poor Arch Foundation (GIHPAF) that helps vulnerabilities access to social needs and education. The Dream Academy (TDA) that teaches vulnerable poor Computer and Technology that helps many disadvantaged in Rural communities. Lukonge Achilles is a strong advocate for human rights include Children's rights, workers and activists. He Authored multiple books "Make Me Understand Family, Parenting and Health" a Parenting Book released in 2018, "The Dream From Dust" A creative Nonfiction Memoir released in 2021 and "A Breath of Life and Hope of Light" The first in A Historical True Crime Series "Blurred Light From West" released in 2023. "Regression of Democracy in Uganda" Third in historical True-Crime series released in 2025. And "The Fruits of Power" The Second in the series, the latest released in 2026.
Achilees Lukonge is a Professional Social worker, Economist, Historian and IT expert. He is respected Author and Advocate of Economic, Social, and Spiritual empowerment for Children, girl child, disabilities, and Vulnerable poor. Working with multiple non-profit organizations, His Social and Humantarian work has reached the lives of thousands of children, young mothers, and youth in Uganda. Achilees' most recent initiatives include founding...
Born the ninth of twelve children in a banana plantation in rural southwestern Uganda in a village whose name means “bush,” Lukonge Achilles Musaasizi was not expected to survive infancy, let alone thrive. He did both — and then some. He was raised inside two competing inheritances: his mother’s quiet, unbreakable faith, and his father’s...
When civil war gripped Northern Uganda in 1986, the international community echoed... the war Waged for two decades left one of worst atrocities and crimes against humanity to the people of North since World War II: caused by both Museveni’s NRA, and Konny’s LRA. Displacing nearly two million people and killing tens of thousands. At least...
Since the 17th century, elections have represented a necessary condition for the legitimate functioning of representative democracies. Nonetheless, if the criteria of freedom and fairness are not properly respected, the mere presence of the popular vote will not prevent a country from experiencing democratic regression. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni...
"You can't fail to cry while reading this book; I appreciated that he admitted how these many challenges almost led him to give up on his dreams because it shows that striving for better life isn't an easy road, especially for someone living in poverty"
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Armani Williams
Reading about the obstacles that he experienced while he was still studying provides an insight into many challenges that students from less fortunate backgrounds would face
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Ada Akisa
I particularly like that he shared his struggles with his studies. He was just an average student, that it seemed his dream of pursuing further studies in a university was almost impossible. He also candidly revealed how his struggles didn't end when he was finally accepted into a university.
Somewhere along the way, most of us pick up the idea that belief is supposed to arrive on its own — that confidence is something you either have or don't, handed out at birth like eye color. I spent years believing that too. I was wrong, and the boy I used to be is the proof.
I grew up watching my parents struggle to put food on the table — my mother a farmer whose whole life depended on the harvest, my father a man of a dozen trades who lost the better part of his youth to more than thirty...
I promised, in the very first post of this series, that I'd eventually tell you about the day I nearly died in a jackfruit tree. I have put off writing this post twice now. Not because I've forgotten what happened — I remember it in more detail than almost any other single day of my childhood — but because some memories resist being turned into sentences, and this is one of mine.
The tree was Ekyomukinene, “the one that bears big,” one of several named jackfruit trees on our land. It was...
I was a loner for most of my childhood. Not because I wanted to be, but because I genuinely believed I had nothing worth offering anyone else's conversation.
Growing up in Kisaka village, in southwestern Uganda, I carried a quiet, private belief that some people were simply born with the good traits — boldness, charisma, the easy confidence that makes a room warm to you — and that I had been born without them. I was introverted. Soft-spoken. The kind of boy who watched more than he spoke. And...
