Muniini K. Mulera

John Fisher Zzimbe: mathematics was his life and love

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 19, 20241 comments

A brilliant mind in Toronto has been silenced by death, leaving an empty void that may never be filled by anyone like him. John Fisher Zzimbe, who died in Toronto on February 2, 2024, was a genius that fit with ease in the world of high-end academia but was utterly disinterested in ...

David Bakibinga’s unique autobiography belongs on the reference shelf

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 5, 20240 comments

#Bakibinga #Makerere #Budo #URA

I have completed my second reading of “Administrator and Scholar: The autobiography of Professor David J. Bakibinga,” which was published in 2021. When I first read this book following its release in 2022, my impression was that this was two books in one. Half of it was ...

Memoirs of Neil Bonnell of Budo: delightful and inspiring.

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 5, 20230 comments

#Neil #Bonnell #Budo #Scots #PGC #College #Warwick #Australia #Uganda

Photo: Budo teaching staff, 1966. Back row - L to R: John Fyfe, Dennis Chisholm, James Patrick Boston, Colin M. Davis, Patrick Whittle. Middle row - L to R: Lewis Dodd, Neil Bonnell, Keith Brewster, Nick Milford, Geoffrey Barraclough. Seated - L to R: Barbara Collins, Joy ...

Topher Twesigye: Ugandan diplomat with a politically incorrect identity

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 14, 20230 comments

#Twesigye #Topher #Budo #Nyakishenyi #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Uganda #Makerere #Ekwaro #Anyang #Nyongo #Mugyenyi #OporiaEkwaro

In many countries, Topher Twesigye would have been a household name, an honoured and celebrated intellectual and leader of his people. In Uganda, most readers of this column probably have no idea who he was. Easily one of the brightest and most patriotic citizens, Twesigye’s ...

Dennis Chisholm of Budo: an impactful life

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 24, 20230 comments

#Chisholm #Budo #Lockerbie #Mugisha #Bikangaga

© Photo of Sandra & Dennis Chisholm by John Bikangaga Jr. ********** Budonians of my generation are in mourning. Dennis Chisholm, the senior physics teacher at King’s College, Budo from 1964 to1973, died in Scotland on Tuesday July 11. He was 89 years old, and ...

Memories of early encounters with English

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMay 1, 20230 comments

#English #Bisamunyu #Kigezi #High #School #Budo

Photo: Main Hall and classrooms, King's College, Budo in April 1996 © Muniini K. Mulera ************** We all make grammatical mistakes in speaking and writing English. I certainly do. I frequently catch myself tongue tied as I struggle to extricate myself from ...

Budo co-education@90: female leadership the next goal.

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 27, 20230 comments

#Budo #Grace #Aggrey #Fraser #Achimota #Kandy

Photo: Budo Pioneer girls. (Photographer - unknown. 1934) Ninety years ago this year, ten (perhaps twelve) girls were admitted at King’s College, Budo, a 27-year-old school hitherto exclusively dedicated to the education of boys. The girls - Flora Kawalya, ...

Professor Jack Ja’bi Ngalamu, my classmate with healing laughter

By Muniini K. MuleraSouth SudanDecember 20, 20210 comments

#Ngalamu #Ngalam #Tabi #Jabi #Budo #Juba #South #Sudan #Mundri

Photo: Jack and Haida Ngalamu (photographer unknown) High school brought us together. We were the class of 1967, King’s College, Budo. One girl and twenty-seven boys, freshly arrived from every corner of Uganda, to embark on a journey whose course we could not have imagined. ...

Memories of Budo linger

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 10, 20210 comments

#Kings #College #Budo #Silvester #Class #3A

Photo: King's College, Budo Class 3A, 1969 with Rev. Hugh Silvester. (Courtesy of Paul Silvester.) Images of an inferno engulfing Grace House at King’s College, Budo sent a chill down my spine. Happily, we lost no human life, and the building will be restored. If ...

Who will tell the story of Ugandan musicians and broadcasters of my youth?

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of MusicMarch 30, 20210 comments

#Uganda #Budo #music #musicians #Rugundana #RutaroKatabaazi #Ndugga #Ssonko #Kawalya #Wamala #Masagazi #Kyakamala #Mugula #Kanyike #Sebaduka

One of my worldly passions is listening to music and learning the story behind the compositions and the performers. The conditions under which the musicians lived; the political conditions at play; the specific events that inspired the compositions; the journeys travelled; and the ...

Long search for Crispus Mundua, my high school friend and classmate

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 20, 20201 comments

#Mundua #Budo

On Tuesday June 23 this year, I wrote a brief note to my friend Harold Acemah in Arua, to ask for a favour. Could he, please, find my high school classmate who might be retired in Arua or somewhere in West Nile? I shared my classmate’s approximate age, our years ...

Memories linger

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 24, 20200 comments

#Budo

Photo: L-R: Geoffrey Mukasa Mukwaya, Samwiri Mwesezi Kigongo, George W. Semivule, Maria Shalita, Charles Mukasa, Muniini K. Mulera Memories Linger You're feeling down and out Because of life’s exertions Receive this timeless music From me to you my friend. Takes ...

Remembering Kongo of Budo

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJune 15, 20180 comments

#Kongo #Budo

A man who resembles Kongo of Budo. [With permission] During my time as an inmate of King’s College, Budo, Wednesday afternoons were free. No classes. No set activities. For some, an opportunity to be idle and disorderly. For others, time to do laundry, clean up ...

Memories of Budo and the Ian and Dorothy Robinson Chapel

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJanuary 31, 20170 comments

#Budo #Robinson #Chapel

Ian and Dorothy Robinson Chapel, King's College, Budo (April 1996) Exactly fifty years ago today, I entered King’s College, Budo, to begin a secondary school education that would become the defining experience of my life. After a daylong Kabale-Kampala bus ride, followed by ...