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Genealogy Database of East Africans

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaMay 23, 20162 comments

One of my frustrations is that I do not know much about my ancestry. In the absence of written records, we depend on oral tradition of “documenting” our story. This, of course, is fraught with errors and complete distortions, missing links and a very limited database. For example, ...

John Pombe Mugufuli - A tribute and a peek at the claim of Tanzania's Middle Income Country (MIC) Status

By Bbuye Lya MukangaEast AfricaMarch 21, 20210 comments

18 March 2021   _____ It is very sad indeed for Tanzania and Africa to lose an energetic, and I believe very well-meaning, son like John Pombe Magufuli. Indeed we should celebrate all the positives about Ndugu John Pombe Magufuli. He was also quite the enigmatic person and leader. ...

Franco, Mobutu and the folly of power

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaOctober 26, 20200 comments

Franco. A single word that needs no elaboration. In the Africa of my youth and young adulthood, Franco was the name of only one man. Mention of the name ignited the stored sounds of his music in one’s brain, and visions of the towering figure that he was. It still does for me.    I ...

Africa’s Great Lakes Region and Nyiragongo’s Curse

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaMay 8, 20190 comments

I am a child of the mountains, at once hopelessly enamoured by their beauty and intimidated by their silent, motionless and brooding majesty. It is a love affair that was ignited long before I knew what those big forested mounds that surrounded my childhood homes were called.    I ...

Worrisome political trends in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaDecember 12, 20170 comments

The state of politics in our great lakes region continues to show a worrisome trend. As Kenya celebrates 54 years of independence today, the legitimacy of its government is questioned and challenged by opposition party leaders and members. The results of the elections that returned ...

East African Legislative Assembly: choose able and experienced Pan-Africanists

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaFebruary 28, 20170 comments

The mandate of the third East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) expires on June 4. A new class of representatives, nine from each partner state, most of them new, will  take their turn at shaping the region’s development agenda. One hopes that the respective national parliaments ...

Surgery and operating rooms- the journey continues

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaJune 22, 20160 comments

In the blog on Caesarean Section in Buganda in 1879, we reproduce the report of a surgical delivery of a baby that was witnessed by Robert William Felkin, a medical student who was serving as King Mutesa's personal physician. The advances in human surgery that have taken place ...

Solution to youth unemployment stares us in the face - By Philip Odera

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaJune 15, 20161 comments

Last Sunday I spent my lunchtime seated between two women who were in a heated discussion about many things. I, on the other hand, was busy negotiating my way through a succulent chicken piece, having successfully hauled my overweight body through an 8km run (actually I walked through ...

The Boda Boda

By Joy OderaEast AfricaMarch 10, 20166 comments

The Boda-Boda   In East Africa and some other parts of Africa, we got our ‘Eureka’ moment and determined that the answer to instant youth unemployment, poverty and a mass rapid transit system, was ...

Birds and people

By AtwokiEast AfricaApril 19, 20160 comments

There was an item on the news today that dinosaurs started losing the battle for survival fifty million years before the asteroid strike that finally wiped them out. It is surmised that splitting up of continents and climatic change brought down the curtain on their existence and ...

Preservation of our culture

By BB atwookiEast AfricaMarch 10, 20162 comments

Written by BB Atwooki   "Preservation of our Cultural Heritage"   Over the past two decades, as I have travelled across Africa, nothing has been more inspiring than the different cultures that I have experienced first hand. This is even more so now that I ...