Muniini K. Mulera

Uganda

Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden: From Model Country, through Wrong Dreams, False Starts and Wrong Turns to Poisoned State

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaJune 20, 20220 comments

Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden: From Model Country, through Wrong Dreams, False Starts and Wrong Turns to Poisoned State – Part One – A parable of two losers: How Arthur Miller’s Willy Loman and Uganda’s Jacob Oulanyah illuminate Uganda’s ...

Enoch Lugimbirwa: saved to serve.

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMarch 11, 20181 comments

It was a great honour to share time with Mr. Enoch Lugimbirwa in Mburara, Nkore in January this year. A very dear brother in Christ, MR. Lugimbirwa is a refined gentleman whose warm smile and laughter reflect his great love for humanity. Mr. Lugimbirwa, who has lived and served ...

Who will tell her the stories of her ancestors in her mother tongue?

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda CultureNovember 8, 20210 comments

I love a good story, told the way my grandmothers and other elders held me captive on many unforgettable evenings during my childhood. Those stories, narrated in Orukiga, my mother-language, were laced with idioms, proverbs, songs and sounds that would quickly transport me to ...

Uganda's political history of no smooth transition of power

By Arinda Bright ArnoldUganda Uganda PoliticsNovember 1, 20220 comments

Given the history of East Africa and particularly the original East African bloc Countries that is Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, there is clearly good reason to presume that since all the three countries share in the same past of colonisation, but ever since post colonial ...

Uganda at 58 (2): Repudiating Order – Normalising Chaos, Mayhem, and Impunity – How It Happens –

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaJuly 3, 20210 comments

Repudiating Order – Normalising Chaos, Mayhem, and Impunity – How It Happens – (Written soon after 9 October 2021) “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.” ― William Golding, Lord of the ...

A Tale of Two Crimes: of Mayhem and Wanton Theft

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaJune 27, 20210 comments

A Tale of Two Crimes: of Mayhem and Wanton Theft (Written a few days after 9 October 2020) “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?” ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies THAT SAME OLD FEELING Around this time four years ...

Why the Covid-19 pandemic invites us to give thanks to God

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 12, 20210 comments

Images of family and other community gatherings in Uganda continue to show a very high disregard for basic preventive measures against the spread of Covid-19. A friend in Kampala told me over the weekend that people have pretty much declared the pandemic to be over. He added that ...

Why I am getting the Covid-19 vaccine

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 8, 20211 comments

I received my first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine last week. The second dose will be administered early next month. This is one of four vaccines that have, so far, been approved by Canada for prevention of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus ...

RATIFY AFRICAN MEDICINES AGENCY TREATY TO PLACE PATIENTS AT THE CENTER OF MEDICINES REGULATION PROCESSES IN THE COVID19 ERA.

By Talibita MosesUgandaNovember 1, 20220 comments

Govt rolled out COVID-19 vaccination with medics of Uganda led by the Minister for Health, Hon. Doctor Ruth Acero at the National Referral Hospital- Mulago receiving their jams as the public viewed. The Minister was joined by over 100 other health workers in public ...

Covid-19 and Ugandans’ death wish

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 24, 20200 comments

Death has a way of focusing us on survival. We make the necessary sacrifices. We take precautions. We promise to change our behaviours. We set partisan and other differences aside. It is a life and death fight. So, we attack the new enemy together. That was the case in Uganda. ...

Mary Aliona, a detainee at Masaka Hospital, is a hero, not a villain

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersJune 29, 20200 comments

A lady called Mary Aliona finds herself in the midst of a storm that is not her doing. By recording and releasing a video of the extremely appalling conditions in which she and others were being held at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital, she incurred the wrath of the Ministry of Health ...

Rwamatego, Kanyonza and stories of a bull, blood and treachery - By Davis Ndyomugabe

By Holiness Edimandi ByomuhangiUgandaJune 12, 20201 comments

Whenever the story or the tale of the Belgian brutality in the Congo is told, it would appear to the world that it is only the people what now comprises the Democratic Republic of the Congo that are concerned. The short reply is that the Belgian leeches brutality extended as far ...

WHY AFRICA MUST PARTICIPATE IN THE QUEST FOR A SUCCESSFUL COVID19 CANDIDATE VACCINE?

By Talibita MosesUgandaMay 27, 20200 comments

The National Local Content Bill, 2019, tabled before Parliamentary Finance Committee in 2019 by Kassanda North MP Patrick Nsamba, seeking to impose local content obligations on persons using public money or natural resources or carrying out activities requiring a license, to ...

UGANDA: Tax Tobacco Companies to Fund Tobacco Control Programs

By Talibita MosesUgandaMay 25, 20201 comments

This 31st of May 2020, Uganda joins the World Health Organisation (WHO) to celebrate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) under the theme “Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use’’. While the WNTD marks 33 years, Uganda’s ...

COVID-19, misinformation epidemic and pandemic of fear

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 6, 20200 comments

Philly Bongoley Lutaaya has been on my mind lately. Lutaaya, an outstanding and popular Ugandan pop-musician in the 1970s and 1980s, was one of the first prominent people to reveal that he had contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of the acquired immune ...

PUZZLED BY THIS PRETTY PLACE IN KIGYEZI

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda TourismFebruary 10, 20201 comments

As you drive up the hillsides of Kabaraga, on your final approach to Kabaare town, you suddenly come upon a brightly coloured building that invites you to stop and dine. This is The Food Station, a roadside restaurant that is about 5 years old. It is not clear to me whether ...

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