Julia Sebutinde did not side with Israel, she sided with the law.By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 29, 20241 comments#Sebutinde #ICJ #Uganda #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Africa #South #Africa #Laaki When a legal matter, in these highly charged times, is brought before the world’s top court, we want public opinion, by lay people like you and me, to carry the day. A dissenting judge is condemned for doing what an independent, competent judge must do. If the same judge votes ...
Honouring the dead with humility, and simplicityBy Muniini K. MuleraNovember 13, 20230 comments#Cook #Nomvula #Mashoai #Odera #Wangalwa #death #funeral #Uganda #Kenya #South #Africa George Otis Cook Jr (1934-2023) and his wife Nomvula Mashoai-Cook. (Photo © Nomvula Mashoai-Cook) ************* Recent telecommunication advances enabled me, sitting in our living room in Toronto, Canada, to attend two funerals in Africa on Saturday. Mrs Winifred Wangalwa Odera, ...
A changing Britain, and my mother’s verdict on colonialismBy Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 13, 20221 comments#Britain #Queen #Elizabeth #II #King #Charles #III #colonialism #slavery #Africa #Truss What a week this last one was! On Tuesday, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom receives two prime ministers at Balmoral Castle. She accepts the resignation of Boris Johnson, a male, her fourteenth prime minister. She requests Elizabeth Truss, a female, to form a government as ...
British are not our enemiesBy Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 19, 20220 comments#Britain #Elizabeth #Charles #Nkrumah #Mandela #Nyerere #Kaunda #Tutu #Ghana #South #Africa #Kenya #Tanganyika #Diamond A photograph is a wonderful thing. It tells a story better than the finest wordsmith. It emits emotions that the pen can hardly bring to life. It forces the truth on those who flourish on emotion and supposition. There is a beautiful black and white photograph, captured at ...
Hopeful signs of democratization in AfricaBy Muniini K. MuleraAugust 22, 20220 comments#Democracy #democratizationBenin #Botswana #Cape #Verde #Ghana #Lesotho #Liberia #Malawi #Mauritius #Namibia #Nigeria #Sao #Tome #and #Principe #Senegal #Seychelles #South #Africa #Zambia #Sierra #Leon Advocates of democracy in Africa have reason to smile. Once again, Senegal had genuine political competition early this month that left President Macky Sall without a parliamentary majority. Neither Sall’s governing coalition nor the opposition was able to win an ...
Apartheid South Africa’s rulers better than terrorist ones north of the LimpopoBy Muniini K. MuleraNovember 15, 20210 comments#de #Klerk #apartheid #Africa #South #Africa #Lesotho I was saddened by last week’s news of the death of Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa’s former president. My sadness was deepened by his video-recorded “last message”, a deathbed apology, “without qualification” for “the pain and the hurt ...
Racism not an American monopolyBy Muniini K. MuleraJune 8, 20202 comments#Racism #tribalism #Canada #USA #Uganda #Africa The death of George Floyd, an African-American who was murdered by a racist European-American policeman, has brought to the fore the evil culture that is the daily experience of numerous people. The world’s eyes are currently focused on the United States, and for good reasons. ...
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A Journey through East Africa by Elspeth Huxley (1948)By Muniini K. MuleraMay 14, 20200 comments#Elspeth #Huxley #Sorcerers #Apprentice #Colonial #East #Africa #Kenya #Uganda #Tanganyika #Zanzibar Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997), perhaps best known for The Flame Trees of Thika, authored more than 40 books, among them this first-rate travel journal that beautifully paints an image of a colonial East Africa at a crossroads. Between February and June of 1947, Huxley, a long-term ...
Prevent destructive floods with good stewardship of God’s EarthBy Muniini K. MuleraMay 11, 20200 comments#Landslides #Floods #Environment #Uganda #East #Africa #Lake #Victoria #Nalubaale #Kampala My heart goes out to those whose lives and possessions have been disrupted by the swollen rivers and lakes of East Africa. Special condolences to those whose relatives have perished in the floods. Coming in the midst of the new Coronavirus pandemic, the pain of disruption is magnified ...
Africans should respond to Chinese racism with their pocketsBy Muniini K. MuleraApril 20, 20200 comments#Racism #China #Guangzhou #Africa #COVID19 The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the truth of anti-African racism in China that had been overshadowed for years by the hyperactive business dealings between that country and our continent. China’s long-reported racist character came to the fore as the ...
Daniel Toroitich arap Moi: iconic leader or prince of darkness?By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 10, 20201 comments#Moi #Kenya #dictatorship #Africa The death of a person is a sad moment. It reminds us of our mortality and forces us to reflect on life’s meaning. The death of Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, Kenya’s former ruler, has saddened me more deeply than I thought it would. No, not because he has died. At ...
In praise of the latest Scramble for AfricaBy Muniini K. MuleraOctober 28, 20190 comments#Scramble #for #Africa #RussiaAfrica #Summit A group photograph of 43 African rulers (and a few leaders) who met with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, at what was dubbed the “Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum,” tells the tragic story of our mentality of dependency and learnt weakness. The custodians of our continent’s ...
The Karagwe Kingdom: A History of the Banyambo of Northwest Tanzania c. 1400-1915. By Israel K. KatokeBy Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 25, 20190 comments#Karagwe #Great #Lakes #States #of #Africa #Interlustrine #Kingdoms #Katoke #Rumanyika #Ruhinda #Ntare The Karagwe Kingdom: A History of the Banyambo of Northwest Tanzania c. 1400-1915. By Israel K. Katoke. Kampala: Fountain Publishers Edition, 2018. Pp. xvii, 206. UGX 20,000/= in Uganda. The title of this book is misleading. This is not a history of the Banyambo. It is the ...
Conflicted personal view of Robert MugabeBy Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 9, 20190 comments#Mugabe #Zimbabwe #Africa Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s death last week was not surprising. At 95, Zimbabwe’s first ruler had exceeded his allotted time of “three score and ten” by a quarter century. As we read in Psalm 90:10, these extra years were characterized by burdensome ...
Redraw Africa’s MapBy Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments#Africa #map #Congo (Map of Africa in the late 19th century) FROM THE ARCHIVES Redraw Africa’s Map By Muniini K. Mulera August 31,1998 One of these days, the guns in Congo will fall silent, leaving the cities, villages, forests and rivers strewn with bodies ...
One of the Giants of Our Time - By Dr. Jane NannonoBy Muniini K. MuleraJuly 10, 20170 comments#Masire #Botswana #Leadership #Africa Sir Ketumile Masire , one of the founding fathers of our great nation: Botswana, has been laid to rest at his humble home in Kanye, south of Gaborone today 29th June 2017. He died almost a month shy of his 92 nd birthday. Botswana is my second home having worked and lived ...