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Kampala bombing: my nephew’s very close call

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 16, 20210 comments

Images and reports of perfectly innocent people killed or injured in the suicide bombing in Kampala today ignited emotions of anger, helplessness, and renewed incredulity at humanity’s self-destructive nature. My anger turned to transient paralysis when I learnt that my nephew ...

Florence Lubega and other pioneers: who will tell their story?

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 3, 20210 comments

Mrs. Florence Alice Lubega, who departed Earth on October 28, just eight days shy of turning 104, may well be the last member of independent Uganda’s first parliament to die. My uncertainty reflects the awfully inadequate documentation of the lives of our immediate post-independence ...

Think twice before baptizing your child Caleb or Mary ​

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 5, 20210 comments

Omugurusi Festo Karwemera, who died thirteen months ago at the age of 95, has been on my mind. Karwemera, the finest researcher, documenter, author and custodian of the language and traditions of Abanyakigyezi, was one of my best lifelong teachers, a source of knowledge and wisdom ...

​ Kabale University scholarship program needs expansion, not condemnation

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 14, 20210 comments

When the Academic Registrar of Kabale University invited applications for the Kabale University Kigezi Region Scholarship, he probably did not expect that it would provoke the ire of some Ugandans. However, that is exactly what it did.    The offending part of the announcement ...

Let Uganda's MPs and medical interns go on strike and we measure their impact

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 16, 20210 comments

President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s fresh directive that a medical intern’s monthly salary should be increased to Sh. 2.5 million is a welcome measure.  Whereas the new salary remains small relative to the critically important role of an intern in health ...

All smiles because of good news from Uganda and South Africa ​

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 9, 20210 comments

Last week was a great one for Africa. The good news from South Africa and Japan put a bounce in one’s step and a smile on one’s face. On July 26, South Africa’s Aspen Holdings, a global pharmaceutical company, announced the release of the first supplies of the Johnson ...

Ugandan MPs need to get to work, as do teachers and nurses.

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 3, 20211 comments

Chris Obore, the Director for Communication and Public Affairs of Parliament, took issue with last week’s letter in which I commented on the greed of Uganda’s parliamentarians. My comments were prompted by the allocation of Sh. 200 million (US$56,000) to each of the country’s ...

Ugandan MPs self-indulgence not new

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 27, 20210 comments

Uganda, still in the grip of a second and more dangerous wave of the new coronavirus pandemic, is like a group of malnourished wanderers in the desert. They lie down to rest their exhausted bodies. Their breaths, shallow and barely enough to sustain life, do not register sounds. Their ...

Memories of Edward Disani Nsubuga Wilson (1953-2021)

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 29, 20210 comments

Another week of widespread sorrow. The novel coronavirus continues its killing spree, inflicting grief on families and friends. One braces oneself for the next report of a dear one’s death. There is hardly an opportunity to mourn before turning one’s attention to the next.  ...

Manzi Tumubweine was born with a fortune

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 15, 20210 comments

Manzi Tumubweine, who died on June 11 at the age of 80, was born with a fortune. No, not the stuff that consumes humanity in an endless, pointlessly vain pursuit of cash and fame. His great fortune was an extraordinary intellect and resilience that shaped and sustained him and his ...

Bad rulers, not good journalists, undermine Uganda’s image

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 4, 20210 comments

I write this note on May 3. It is World Press Freedom Day 2021. This is a special one, for we celebrate thirty years since the UNESCO Windhoek Declaration for the Development of a Free, Independent and Pluralistic Press.    Most countries, including Uganda, embraced ...

Listen to the other side in Uganda's national conversation

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 1, 20210 comments

One reader of my letter last week posted his reaction on a WhatsApp discussion forum that, in  my view, encapsulated a major cause of Uganda’s failed marriage.  The gentleman wrote that he had been struck by my statement explaining one reason why some people ...

Who is the best choice to succeed Yoweri Museveni?

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 11, 20210 comments

The charade of this week’s so-called election, whose official result we already know, should not distract us from one obvious reality. At 77, Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni will soon yield to biology and a need for long-deserved retirement.    As usual, the ruling regime ...

Is Uganda marching towards inevitable turning point?

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 8, 20200 comments

Some random thoughts, in no particular sequence, as I reflect on my homeland. I claim no authority. Mine are just interpretations of a seasoned witness to the drama of politics in autocracies and dictatorships that have come and gone over the last fifty-five years.    Print ...

DIEGO MARADONA, AMERICA, AND UGANDA, AND THE HUNGER FOR HUMAN GOODNESS

By Bbuye Lya MukangaDecember 3, 20200 comments

30 November 2020   Bbuye lya Mukanga    The recent demise of one of the most spoken-about legends of The Beautiful Game, the saga of the latest Presidential Elections in the USA, the extrajudicial killings of innocent Ugandans. …. Three topical events that leave ...

Academic qualifications not a measure of leadership ability

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 1, 20200 comments

I rolled with laughter when I read a report in the Daily Monitor last week in which a ruling party politician was quoted as having declared: "Someone with a diploma in Music Dance and Drama wants to lead this country called Uganda. This is not a theater."    I immediately ...

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