My Reading List for 2026

1. The Invisible Gorrilla by Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons

2. What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

3. Redirect by Timothy Wilson

4. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

5. 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin

6. Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani

What are you reading?

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Conjugate Energy, the UK company that was incorporated in February 2023 to explore for oil in the Kanywataba and Turaco oil areas in Western Uganda, will be dissolved next week due to financial troubles.
The two oil blocs could be up for grabs in Uganda's next oil licensing round.

In December 2024, Uganda and China broke the deadlock over the debt needed for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.

The loan, which is lower than what Uganda had asked for, was the last major hurdle for constructing the EACOP.

The debt was delayed partly due to climate activists.

The city of Goma in eastern DR Congo has fallen to the M23 rebels. The war is largely triggered by the fight over DR Congo's mineral resources. For context, if you own an iPhone, chances are that some of the metals inside your phone were got from DRC. Just how rich is DRC? Obscenely rich. A thread.

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10-year-old Ugandan swimmer Zara Mbanga is breaking records in her pursuit of becoming one of the best swimmers in the world. She chats to @taytbells about her aspirations.
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On January 25, Australia’s Blaze Minerals Ltd will launch its drill programme in Ntungamo district in Uganda as it explores for tin ores.

Blaze, whose market cap is $9M, says the Ntungamo project has the potential to be world class.

The project borders the Mwirasandu tin mine, Uganda's biggest.

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Blaze Minerals has asked for a trading halt from the Australian Securities Exchange ahead of its announcement this week about the acquisition of a 60% stake in Gecko Minerals Uganda Limited. Gecko holds lithium licenses in Ntungamo and Mityana districts.

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Uganda has started publicising three new oil blocks - Hoima, Kyoga and Moroto - as it plans to license them out in the future.

The Albertine Graben remains Uganda’s most popular, where 6 billion barrels have so far been discovered. Less than 50 per cent of this block has been explored so far.