Muniini K. Mulera

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 ...

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, ...

British are not our enemies

By 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 Africa

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 22, 20220 comments

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 ...

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. ...

Apartheid South Africa’s rulers better than terrorist ones north of the Limpopo

By 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 ...