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Lugbara-English (Crossbacks): |
Some Lugbara words and phrases have the same exact spelling as English, but mean totally different things eg: a, ace, agate, agile, ago, aka, ale, alibi, alone, amaze, animate, ape, are, aria, aroma, asia, awe, azalea, baba, be, bile, co, do, ego, era, fire, go, ho, ice, mama, me, mile, mini, moo, more, note, ode, one,... |
Lugbara-Ganda (Comedic Translations): |
Bambi = Sorry ['Ba mbi = Let us have sex]... |
Bigambo = Words [(Big)ambo = Big]... |
Enva = Soup [Zamva = Girl]... |
Fuka = Urinate [Fu ka = Flower has grown]... |
Kale = Okay [Ka le = If s/he wants]... |
Lindako = Wait a bit [Linda ko = Catching Linda]... |
Mukenenya = HIV/ AIDS [Mukene nya = Eating silverfish]... |
Nva ko = Get off me [Mvako = No child]... |
Obuze = You are lost [O'bu ze = Worm faeces]... |
Ogamba ki? = What's up? [Oga mba ci = There is a month for ticks]... |
Olimba = You are lying [Oli mba = The wind hardened]... |
Onzita = You are killing me [Onzi ta = Coping with evil or bad things]... |
Osibye otya? = How have you stayed/ How are you? [Osi be oti-a = Laid egg at the brother-in-law; Osu 'be ti-a = Throw beans in the mouth; A su osubi ti-a = I fixed bean leaves inside my mouth]... |
Sagala (Siyagala) = I don't want [Sa gala (Si ya gala) = Slapped a snake (The teeth shook the snake)]... |
Semakula = Male-given name with meaning related to gains [Se maku la = Pulled the potato to read]... |
LOST IN TRANSLATION (Lugbara AI): |
This encyclopedic research documentation is inspired by (and dedicated to) Cynthia Letasi, aka Rejoice (The Beautyful One born on Thursday 17th August 1995 [Roger that Ayi Kwei Armah] and Green Riding Hood [Now Mrs. Mungufeni whose husband I was a fan of after his song "DJ Pastor" before she proclaimed that they were d... |
When I was in Senior 5 (during 2001), I told my hostelmates that one day there will be a radio device that transcribes words spoken on air into text like STT or S2T (Speech-2-Text), aka Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and displayed on a screen, not just pre-written lyrics as Jango Radio does, but ongoing real-time c... |
Elevation is a Choice: |
Ife ma asi ni asindriza, MUNGU [Give my heart peace, GOD]! |
Northwestern Uganda forever... |
[GODisgreat!] |
(CC) AIKO (Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Organiser) 2003-Now |
Born: Saturday 7th January 1984 in Jinja Hospital (UG) to Elizabeth Ndezo Dramani (from Ayivu) + James Dramani (from Maracha) |
Siblings: 1 brother, 5 sisters |
Tribe: Lugbara |
Baptised: Edward Ayikobua [Translated from Lugbara: Happiness is in Heaven] on Sunday 22nd April 1984 at Bugaddu Church of Uganda Bugerere; dropped out letter Y from surname in Primary 1 (at age 6) following advice from his father to make it shorter and modern |
Religion: Anglican-born; Savedee (1997); Muslim (2002); now JESUSfreak (Christian) |
Favourite food: Rice, beans, chapati, spaghetti, etc. |
Sports interest: Michael Jordan (since 1992); Football (John Barnes; Germany; Romario (Brazil); Arsenal FC [Ian Wright, Emmanuel Petit, Patrick Vieira, Arsene Wenger, Robert Pires, etc]; Real Madrid; Lionel Messi)... |
Education: Garage Daycare, then Modern Nursery Jinja (1989); Victoria Nile School (1990-5); Kalinabiri Primary School (1995-6); St. Mary's College Kisubi (1997-2000); Makerere College School (2001-2); Uganda Christian University in Mukono (2003-6); Maisha Filmlab (2008) |
Childhood Ambition: Become a Footballer (1992), but gave up in 1996. Others were doctor or trucker, then fireman (1997). Idea for an art label came after Y2K |
Turning Point: Rejected from joining Technical Drawing class (after quitting the Fine Art class in Senior 5 because of constantly deteriorating grades) and with teary eyes, he started writing the name of GOD in all caps plus decided to teach himself how to draw cartoons |
Penname: Aiko, chosen after a 1997 Christmas card from VNS and SMACK OB named Robin Kasinda who addressed him as "Aiiko", but the name AikoGraphics came to him during Sunday 2nd February 2003 around 4:39pm on Mt. Wati Road (Arua) as a Creativity Organisation |
Tagline: Designs and Portraits |
Notable Artworks: Bob Marley (for S4 deskmate Jean Rwamukaga) when he discovered focussed inking without pencil sketches, Emmanuel Petit, Thierry (Y2K); ChurchTV logo (2002); Emily (2005) featuring his bounceback girlfriend; Uganda Clearing Industry & Forwarders Association (UCIFA) logo (2007); Procurement Initiatives ... |
Blogs: Kargo Magazine (2008); Arua District Local Government (2009)... |
Books: Aiko's Lugbara Dictionary (2016) dedicated to his first crush in West Nile (Cynthia); Dreamsurfing (Book cover features his 2005 Bounceback Girlfriend in the centre), United Gombololas (2020); Suicide Notes (2025); Sadness Trench - ignited by an unexpected call from Campus OG named Mariam Nakafu on NRM's 40th an... |
Editorial Cartoons: The Standard (UCU Newspaper) from 2007-2015 and 2019-2020 Lockdown; Sunday Vision (January 2011)... |
Films: The Casual (2008)... |
Illustrations: World Wide Fund for Nature (2012); Plunging the Depths by Mike Watmon Kinyera (2015); Weaving a Path to Wisdom by Victor Draman Afayo (2025)... |
Paintings: Green Lamp (Y2K); Ndedra Stores for his parents at Arua Central Market; KADS backdrops (2007, 2009, 2012); Springs Kindergarten (2017, 2025); Charis International School (2022)... |
Writing: Sokka Magazine (2015) invited by Reverien Fils Kiruzi (Rwanda)... |
Big Plan: Depression Network (Tuesday 1st October 2024). |
Testimonials: Fundi... (Elizabeth Dramani); Artist... (Gordon, hostelmate in Bugujju); Naturally bright... (Emily Ampaire); One of the Best Cartoonists I know... (Nakanwagi Nsamba in Seeta, Mukono); Lugbara researcher... (Charles Kirikiri Bua from Vurra); Best Cartoonist in Uganda... (Thomas Froese, German-born Canadia... |
Advice: Worship GOD, trust in JESUS; fast and pray... |
Angu Neza [Sightseeing] |
Vacation Destination Marketing |
GOD is great, first and foremost! Secondly, JESUS is the Way. Arua is a sweet and excellent (First Class) Business Hub at the Heart of West Nile (Northwestern Uganda). It connects East Africa to the rest of the Black Continent through the KAN (Koboko-Arua-Nebbi) Corridor. Transferred from Belgian colonialists to the Br... |
Arua is the centre of Lugbaraland (The stones can probably speak the language after hearing it for ages); aku ambo [big home/ city] magnet and imvu [(melting) pot] for all Lugbara in the diaspora. Other groups in Arua include Madi, Luo (mainly Alur), Kakwa, Bantu (eg Baganda), Asians, Congolese, Sudanese and Whites. Fo... |
Religiously, Arua is the mission centre of the Anglican Madi & West Nile Diocese in Mvara (Eastern Arua City) as well as the Roman Catholic Arua Diocese in Ediofe (Western Arua City). |
I was born in Jinja and grew up in Kampala, but had a very ignorant disdain (or discriminative attitude) against Arua with absolutely no desire to visit throughout the 90s though most relatives did. However, since the world did not end in Y2K as prophesied by Computer Bug Doom's Day theorists (who were 100 percent dead... |
Koboko broke away from Arua in 2005 while Maracha (where I come from) and Terego left in 2006 until the latter returned to Arua in 2010 (while I was working for Electoral Commission in Tara Subcounty which is next to Terego). Other clans including my mother's clan (Ayivu, from which the City was cut out) also asked for... |
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