{UAH} So many things to learn from the very early death of AK47

So many things to learn from the very early death of AK47 (25 years is just one half of Uganda's Life Expectancy at Birth). The most critical lesson is the rampant level of mental ill-health in suburban Kampala - the demon that drove a young man like this to the brink of stress. Stress arising from the struggle to succeed in an industry where many pretenders strive to enter but few hit the celeb mark. And the demon drove him to drugs. (And it was not his fault - in the book 'Sick Societies', Stuckler and Siegel argue that a person's risk for non-communicable diseases is rooted in their environment, and the environment slowly programs their risk in a way that they can hardly control). Slowly by slowly, his corrupted brain told him to take higher and higher shots to achieve that magic feel - the 'feel of success' as it were because the 'feel of death'. One thing for sure: U play with drugs, u play with demons, however elated your ego may be

I think that is the problem with celebrity life...... You'll always strive to please people around you(fans ). Before you know it, you've thrown away your personal values and principles. However, I think parents have a lot of work to do training up their children in this cruel world.I thought this would be a better project for Father Lokodo, other spending a whole year talking about Desire Luzinda. The problem of drugs is slowly but surely taking its toll on the public health!

the problem of drugs is a growing public health problem because of weak laws. Look at all reports of musicians growing marijuana in their residences, shisha smoking in public places and ,the mother of all evils, international drug dealers who find it safer to transit through Uganda because of small fines. There are even reports of bar owners who use beautiful barmaids to lure and hook unsuspecting patrons onto drugs. The environment certainly needs to be made unfavorable to drug use and sale!

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"War is nothing but a  continuation of political intercourse, with a mixture of other means. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." 

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