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Equatorial Guinea and the curse of Macias Nguema Biyogo

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 7, 20240 comments

#Nguema #Malabo #Equatorial #Guinea #Biyogo #Mbasogo

 Ruthless rulers have been part of the human story since the beginning of recorded history. Even in recent “civilised” times, numerous dictators have popped up to maintain the tradition. The twentieth century alone gave us a cast of brutal rulers that qualified for ...

Quality, not quantity of doctors, must be Uganda’s priority

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 9, 20240 comments

#Uganda #doctors #medical #schools

 Whereas full employment and continued education of all recent medical graduates in Uganda is of utmost urgency, it should be accompanied by concurrent, independent external reviews of the fourteen medical schools in the country. Thirteen of these medical schools have been started ...

Do not yield to accidental falls without a fight

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 6, 20240 comments

#Bathroom #accidental #falls

Deaths of prominent Ugandans caused by falls in bathrooms have rightly focused citizens’ attention on this common and potentially dangerous accident. A person’s life can be profoundly altered, even ended in seconds. Those who survive can have severe disabilities, with ...

Why does Botswana work and richer South Sudan struggles?

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 11, 20230 comments

#Botswana #South #Sudan #Personal #rule #Salva #Kiir #Masisi

Photo: Botswana Parliament Building in Gaborone     When Botswana President Mokgweetsi Keabetswe Masisi was asked in a recent interview why his country had managed to do what other Africa countries had failed to do, he replied: “I cannot speak for other countries, ...

Honouring the dead with humility, and simplicity

By 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, ...

Experience at Nakasero Hospital and critical inequalities in the land

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMay 22, 20230 comments

#Nakasero #hospital #Miiro #Nsubuga #Candiru #Namata #Uganda

Photo: Dr. Marvin Miiro Nsubuga, a specialist in internal medicine in Kampala, Uganda. (© Muniini K. Mulera) **********************  The overwhelming healthcare needs of Uganda’s population can cause as much despondency to health professionals as they do to patients ...

Address delays of accessing safe childbirth in Uganda to save mothers

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 7, 20230 comments

#MMR #maternal #mortality #morbidity #Uganda

 There is a preventable tragedy that hardly engages sustained public interest. The Monitor newspaper, among others, has faithfully reported stories of women who have had bad experiences in labour, some of whom have died.   Such news quickly disappears, unless the victim ...

Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba: an excellent choice as President of UMA

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 19, 20220 comments

#Edith #NakkuJoloba #UMA #Uganda #Medical #Association #Makerere #Mulago

The election of Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba on Sunday December 18 as the new president of Uganda Medical Association (UMA) is excellent news. It restores the 58-year-old organization to a path its founders and sustainers envisaged, namely, a robust organization that promotes and maintains ...

Doctors’ apathy and Uganda Medical Association’s problems

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 12, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #Ruskin #Cook #Odonga #Kasirye #Senbeguya #Semambo #Mwesigye #Mungherera #KibukaMusoke #Billington #UMA #BMA #Oleo

Photo: Prof. Alexander Mwa Odonga MB ChB, FRCS, LMS (EA), Dip. Med. (EA), President of the BMA (Uganda Branch) 1964, President of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa 1971-1972, Dean of Makerere Medical School, 1975-1977. ********************* Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, who knelt ...

Dr. Samuel Oledo has disqualified himself from leadership of Uganda’s doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 5, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #UMA #Oledo

The current president of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has brought great shame and embarrassment to the profession of medicine. While speaking at the Patriotism for Youth and Investment Symposium at Kololo Independence Grounds on Saturday December 3, Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, ...

Hopeful signs of democratization in Africa

By 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 ...

Mother-baby death in Mparo and our national priorities

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 13, 20221 comments

#Musaasizi #Musasizi #Mparo #Maternal #mortality #Uganda

 Diana & Xavier Musaasizi in happier days. (Photo courtesy of Xavier Musaasizi)    A healthy 30-year-old woman was admitted to Mparo Health Centre in Rukiga District on Monday June 6 to deliver her second child. Artificial induction of labour was started that night. ...

Christian revival is Uganda’s only hope for redemption

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 19, 20220 comments

#Corruption #Uganda #Christian #Revival #Bisamunyu

My friend Edward Nobel Bisamunyu, who died two months ago, was on my mind this Easter weekend. An astute observer of humanity and the world around him, Eddie hated hypocrisy. His letters, both private and public, were hard hitting commentaries on the double standards he encountered ...

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

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda CultureNovember 8, 20210 comments

#Culture #Kigyezi #Kigezi #Rukiga #Tibihika #oral #stories #Mubangizi #Tibaanyendera

 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 ...

How many citizenships can a Ugandan legally hold?

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 15, 20211 comments

#Uganda #dual #citizenship #constitution

"Someone was picked, he had a Ugandan national ID, he had a Canadian passport, and the passport of another country. So, what is he?"  - Marcelino Bwesigye, Asst Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Republic of Uganda, September 14, 2021.   https://youtu.be/gXoGKgLuC4A   Assistant ...

Dr. Apuuli Sanyu Byabanyagi: a patriot betrayed by his government

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 6, 20210 comments

#Byabanyagi #Makerere #Medical #School

This time fifty years ago, young men and women in various parts of Africa, preparing to write their university entrance examinations, probably did not have death on their minds. Not their own or that of close colleagues with whom they were preparing to conquer the world.    Among ...

Bobby Hutcherson kicks up musically beautiful dust

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicFebruary 17, 20210 comments

#Bobby #Hutcherson #The #Kicker #Blue #Note #Tone #Poet #Herbie #Hancock #Joe #Henderson #Grant #Green #Duke #Pearson #Bob #Cranshaw #Al #Harewood #Bedouin #Jazz

Title: The Kicker  Label: Blue Note 21437, Tone Poet Series Recorded: December 29, 1963, Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA First released on CD in 1999 First released on vinyl LP in 2020   Musicians: Bobby Hutcherson (vibes), Joe Henderson (tenor sax), ...

Enid Kanyangyeyo (1938-2014) did not know how to fail

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 22, 20200 comments

#Enid #Kacanda #Kanyangyeyo #Mburara #International #School #Sabiti

Enid Kacanda Kanyangyeyo gave my wife and I a beautiful cow. People from the cattle-keeping nations in Africa will understand what this means.    Enid, our very dear friend, has been gone for 6 years today, though it feels much longer than that. She remains a frequent reference ...

Memories of an afternoon at the Lincoln Cathedral, England

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 7, 20201 comments

#Lincoln #Cathedral #England #William #Byrd

Four years have passed since my wife and I visited the Lincoln Cathedral in Lincolnshire, England. We were in the very happy company of our dear friend Peace Matsiko whose idea it was that we check out one of old England’s most magnificent jewels. It made a great impression ...

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

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

#Aliona #Maska #Hospital #COVID19 #Uganda #Ministry #of #Health

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 ...

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 ...

Mugisha Muntu's challenge to Museveni about the army

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 24, 20200 comments

#Mugisha #Muntu #Alliance #for #National #ransformation #Alliance #ANT #Uganda #Biraaro #Museveni #Ten #Point #Programme

Mugisha Muntu, National Coordinator, Alliance for National Transformation     ****************** Many of the public tributes and reflections at the recent memorial and burial services for Benoni Buta Biraaro, a retired senior officer of the Uganda People’s Defence ...

Expose false prophets ripping big from the Jesus Industry

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 1, 20190 comments

#Pastors #false #prophets #evangelical #churches #man #of #God

Tito Watts, a Zimbabwean “pastor,” wins the 2018 gold cup for Conman of the Year because of his daring originality in hoodwinking the gullible. In an industry that one thought had exhausted its bag of tricks, Watts and his wife Amanda devised a scam in which they sold ...

Virtues of political colour blindness

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 17, 20180 comments

#Uganda #NRM #Political #colour

The first time I had an opportunity to choose my own clothes was in 1966 when my mother took me to Bachu’s, our favourite clothier’s shop Omugabahindi (in the Indian section) in Kabale Town. I chose a red T-shirt that had clearly been made with me in mind. It was the beginning ...

Why Uganda should scrap tax-payer funded private health care

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersNovember 12, 20180 comments

#Uganda #Healthcare #Uganda #Hospital #Uganda

I understand why patients scramble to get referred to India and other distant lands for healthcare. First, there is a deep distrust of the Uganda health services – even at private hospitals. This, together with a natural tendency to believe that health care abroad is always ...

Corrupt alliance between Ugandan doctors and Indian hospitals hurts patients

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersNovember 6, 20180 comments

#Medical #tourism #Ugandan #doctors #Indian #doctors #Indian #hospitals #medical #ethics

 When Dr. Nuwa Masinde Muliro, a senior surgeon in Kampala, referred his patient to what he believed to be a reputable Health Centre in India, he did not expect anything except a consultation report and, hopefully, news of a good outcome. Instead the first communication Dr. Muliro ...

Alice Asianut Alaso on the Value System of the new political formation in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 27, 20180 comments

#Alaso #Asianut #Political #value #system #Uganda

OUR VALUE SYSTEM By Alice Asianut Alaso While the new formation is going to consult widely and discuss deeply with Ugandans regarding our policy positions on various issues, there are a set of core values, beliefs and principles that we already share on certain topics.    ...

Mugisha Muntu on a new political formation in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 27, 20180 comments

#Muntu #Uganda #political #formation

Fellow Ugandans,   Two days ago, several FDC members and I announced our decision to leave the party. This decision was reached after an extensive consultation process that saw us interact with citizens from across all sub-regions of the country. While the reasons for our departure ...

Why I am politically homeless in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda PoliticsSeptember 24, 20181 comments

#Political #party #Democracy

Blame my father, my upbringing or my lifelong experiences, but I seem to be irrevocably married to the idea that I have a duty to actively participate in my own governance. No, I do not have to serve in any government to be an active participant in a process that has a direct impact ...

Like the Proverbial Bad Penny……I had turned up again - By Dr. Jane Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda EducationSeptember 21, 20172 comments

#Makerere #Medical #School #Class #of #1977

Photo: Class of 1977, Makerere University Medical School.  (Photo credit: Medical Illustration Department, Makerere.)   Throughout my teenage years, I used to suffer from acute attacks of sore throat especially during the hot and dry December holidays. On one such occasion, ...

Grateful that I chose a career in medicine - By Dr. Jane Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 21, 20170 comments

#Nannono #medicine #medical #school #makerere

  Students continue to graduate from the eleven or so universities in my country during this month of March.  I graduated forty years ago and by then, there was one university: Makerere University. Currently there are six public universities.   Forty years today, I ...

Forty years later, not ready to hang up the stethoscope

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 20, 20170 comments

#muniini #mulera #makerere #medical #school #medicine #graduation

It has been forty years since our class took the final bow from undergraduate life at Makerere University.   We had shared five long years of learning, of pushing each other to excel, of building friendships and of supporting each other through very difficult experiences.   We ...