Muniini K. Mulera

Uganda’s independence: What if?

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 9, 20230 comments

#Uganda #independence #UNC #DP #UPU #UPC #KY #Kasolo #Kiwanuka #Obote #Musaazi #Rwetsiba #MasembeKabale #Cohen

Whereas political independence of African colonies from European powers was a very good thing, they handed political power to us too soon. We were simply not ready. Whenever I have said this, I have triggered vitriolic responses driven by understandable emotions. The language ...

Uganda independence: A more ill-prepared country hard to find

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 10, 20220 comments

I honour the great men and women who stood tall in the struggle for equality, freedom, democratic participation in our national economy and governance, and political independence from Britain. An incomplete list of the heroes of our pre-independence struggle, many ...

Shortcut journalism and Akorimo Kanuti’s fiction about Uganda’s Independence

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda HistoryOctober 14, 20190 comments

#Akorimo #Kanuti #Uganda #Independence #Uganda #flag #Obote #Amin #Iain #MacLeod #Walter #Coutts #truth #in #journalism

The New Vision, a Kampala English daily newspaper, carried a story on October 8, recycling claims by Maj. Akorimo Kanuti, a retired Uganda Army officer, about his roles at Independence 57 years ago. These claims have been recycled over the years by New Vision, Daily Monitor ...

Maj. Augustine Karugaba and Obote’s most consequential decision

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda HistoryOctober 7, 20190 comments

#Karugaba #Obote #Uganda #Independence #Sandhurst #Sarakikya #Hugh #Stott #Combes #Ibingira

There once lived a man called Karugaba ka Baatoora ba Rubango, better known as Major Augustine ‘Gus’ Karugaba. In my opinion, his story was one of the most consequential in Uganda’s journey from a British colony of promise to a blood-stained sovereign state where ...

Uganda@57: Change political leadership and culture

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda PoliticsOctober 1, 20190 comments

#Uganda #independence #Museveni #politics #leadership

Independent Uganda turns 57 next week. As usual, I have been scouring the newspaper reports from the critical period of 1961-1963. A news report by the Chicago Daily News Service, filed from Nairobi on March 15, 1962 caught my eye. Under the headline “Politics Is The Tail ...

Memories of an eyewitness at Kololo on Uganda's Independence Day 1962 - By Dr. Bbuye Lya Mukanga

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 8, 20180 comments

#Uganda #independence

My recollection of Uganda’s Independence Day isshrouded in memories, fuzzy as they are, of some of the events and people leading up to the day. My paternal grandmother, Ludiya Nabizizi, was the sister of Semei Lwakilenzi Kakungulu. She was also the Princess Royal (Nalinya) ...

Myth and mystery about the Ugandan Flag on Independence Day

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 8, 20180 comments

#Uganda #flag #independence #uganda #flag #Karugaba #Kinuti #Ibingira #Akorimo #Kanuti

In historical terms, Uganda’s independence from Britain is a recent event. However, the published myths, legends, contested claims and dark holes in the story of Tuesday, October 9, 1962 have already muddied the historical record. This is especially so on the internet, ...

Uganda at 55 – Part 2: Missed Opportunities - By Dr. Bbuye Lay Mukanga

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 9, 20170 comments

#Uganda #Constitution #Independence #State #failure #Bbuye

Momentous things have happened in Uganda since Part 1 of my reflections on Uganda at 55 was published. Soon after, the Government moved to introduce a “Private Members Bill” that would remove the less than 75 years old limit on the age of any Presidential candidates. There ...

Uganda at 55: The Spectre of a Stunted Country – Part 1 By Dr. Bbuye lya Mukanga

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 20, 20170 comments

#Uganda #Constitution #Independence #State #failure #Bbuye

A friend of ours was 12 years when she lost both of her parents. She was left as the minder and care-giver to her three younger siblings. During growing up, the youngest sister, then around 5 years old, contracted Japanese B encephalitis, a brain-attacking viral disease that is spread ...