Muniini K. Mulera

"I wanted to appoint Museveni VP", Godfrey Binaisa

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 14, 20230 comments

#Binaisa #Lule #Obote #Muwanga #Oyite #Ojok #Rugumayo #Nyerere #Idi #Amin #Lutakome #Kayiira #Kategaya #Kanyomozi #Nanyumba #Mukombe #Mpambara #Toko #Thatcher #Mugane #Njonja

(L-R: Muniini K. Mulera, Godfrey Binaisa, December 23, 2006.) **** The last time I enjoyed President Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa’s company was on the evening of December 23, 2006, and at breakfast the following morning, when he and I were guests at the home of our mutual ...

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 ...

Paul Ssemogerere’s epitaph: A rebel with hope and perseverance

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 22, 20220 comments

#Ssemogerere #DP #Obote #Museveni #Okello #Lutwa #Uganda

Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere was a rebel. The soft, smiling type, with an easily underestimated resolve. The under-appreciated hero because his conquests did not include blood and human corpses. There was a time when I did not appreciate Ssemogerere’s politics. Why, ...

Gayaza High School deserves our financial support

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 7, 20220 comments

#Gayaza #Masembe #Mpanga #Bagaaya #Nsibirwa #Kalema #Kasule #Obote #Mugwanya #Kadama #Kavuma

(Some of the Gayaza girls at the gathering in Kampala on November 5, 2022. Left - right: Jane Nannono Kavuma Kayonga [red top], Barbara Kibaya Kiwanuka, Florence Isabirye Muranga [standing], Rowena Sempa Ndugga, Christina Mugwanya Kadama, and Jennifer Wanyoto Musiime.) ------------------------- The ...

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 ...

Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden: Model Country, Wrong Dreams, False Starts, Poisoned Country: PROLOGUE to a Series of Articles

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaOctober 8, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Obote #Amin #Museveni #dictatorship

– Prologue – Central message: “Nation of Uganda” is, so far, a failed concept that requires radical rethinking, agreement on, and implementation of measures for its restoration." Bbuye lya Mukanga 1 June 2022 Uganda at 60 – Poisoned ...

Is Uganda marching towards inevitable turning point?

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 8, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #Kyagulanyi #Tumwine #Obote #Ibingira #Kakonge #Rugunda #Otunnu #Mbabazi

Some random thoughts, in no particular sequence, as I reflect on my homeland. I claim no authority. Mine are just interpretations of a seasoned witness to the drama of politics in autocracies and dictatorships that have come and gone over the last fifty-five years. Print ...

Choice before Ugandans is not Bobi Wine or Muntu versus Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 24, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #NRM #Obote #Okello #Amin #Muntu #Bobi #Wine #Kyagulanyi

I had decided to stay clear of all comment on the latest pretence of “democratic competition” for Uganda’s presidency. Whereas we have new faces in the cast of those who are challenging Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni, the incumbent president, the script is unchanged. ...

Post-Museveni transition should be every Ugandan’s concern

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 29, 20201 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #NRM #Obote #Okello #Amin

Notwithstanding my serious disagreement with much of President Yoweri K. Museveni’s politics, policies and actions, I acknowledge a lot of good that he has done in his 35 years in power. When we look at Museveni’s Uganda and compare it to the Amin-Obote II-Okello ...

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 ...

A frightened Ugandan president, a courageous magistrate and the case against Rajat Neogy and Abu Mayanja

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 22, 20180 comments

#Uganda #Neogy #Rajat #Neogy #Abu #Mayanja #Milton #Obote #Transition #Mohammed #Saied

Photo: Hon. Abubakar Kakyama Mayanja (1929-2005) The imprisonment, 50 years ago, of Rajat Neogy, the legendary founder and editor of Transition, and Abubakar Kakyama Mayanja, a prominent barrister and parliamentarian, was a symptom of Uganda’s failed democratic experiment ...

Idi Amin and Donald Trump: Recollections by Neil Bonnell and Interpolations by Bbuye Lya Mukanga

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 14, 20170 comments

#Idi #Amin #Trump #Uganda #Buganda #Obote #Mutesa #Bbuye #Bonnell

Introduction: Neil Bonnell taught at King’s College Budo from 1965 to 1971, and was also House Master of Australia House and Cricket Master. Bbuye lya Mukanga was a student at King’s College Budo from 1966 to 1970. Idi Amin NEIL: I believe that ...