Muniini K. Mulera

How Museveni outfoxed Wamimbi in political draughts

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 16, 20240 comments

#Wamimbi #Bamasaaba #Museveni #Wapakhabulo #NRM #Uganda

Wilson Weasa Wamimbi 1938-2024 (Photo credit: unknown) We are saddened by the death of Wilson Weasa Wamimbi of Bugisu, which occurred on Friday April 12. His family has lost their patriarch. The Bamasaaba have lost their first Umukuuka of Insu ya Masaaba. I have lost ...

Create more Ugandan technical colleges, not universities.

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 18, 20240 comments

#Uganda #Makerere #KIU #MUST #UCU

Uganda is said to have about 61 degree-awarding institutions. Thirteen are public institutions, forty are private, and eight are narrowly focused, either on military or oil sciences. All of them are called universities, although many probably do not deserve that designation. Whereas ...

In conversation with Museveni 27 years ago

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 16, 20241 comments

#Museveni #Uganda #corruption #education #UPE

Stealing not answer to low wages. _ Museveni, Monday June 23, 1997 In his address to the Global Knowledge '97 conference in Toronto, Canada, on Monday June 23, 1997, President Kaguta Museveni told his audience of nearly 2000 people that it was ...

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 ...

Private healthcare unaffordable, but free healthcare not free.

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 23, 20240 comments

#Healthcare #Uganda

When one of my close relatives became critically ill in Kampala last week, he was taken to a neighbourhood clinic where preliminary tests revealed the most likely cause. His family took him to Najjera Hospital in Kiwatule, where Dr. Patson Ndyakira Makobore promptly evaluated ...

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, ...

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 ...

Private donations key to modernizing Uganda's traditional schools

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 18, 20231 comments

#Kihanga #Education #Uganda

Photo: Kihanga Secondary School ICT Centre will offer a learning environment similar to this. ************ The fundraising event for the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre at Kihanga Secondary School exceeded my expectation. Held at Kembabazi Restaurant in ...

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 ...

Africa’s great volcanos and Uganda’s Alliance for National Transformation

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 31, 20230 comments

#ANT #Alliance #Uganda #Alaso #Muntu #Muhabura #Mgahinga #Gahinga #Mugahinga #Sabyinyo #Bisoke #Mikeno #Karisimbi #Volcano #Sebahire

Photo: Gahinga, Sabyinyo, Bisoke, Mikeno and Karisimbi viewed from the Second Hut on Mount Muhabura. © Ezra Sebahire ************ The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), which was launched on Wednesday May 22, 2019, is like Ibirunga, the eight volcanic mountains in Africa’s ...

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 ...

Homosexuality: Ugandan scientific research needed

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 25, 20230 comments

#Homosexuality #Uganda

President Yoweri Museveni respects science and scientists. He often exercises admirable patience before making evidence-based decisions. It is my hope that he will exercise the same patience and insistence on solid evidence before assenting to an amended Anti-Homosexuality Bill. ...

Bishop Akanjuna of Kigezi is well qualified for his ministry

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 17, 20230 comments

#Akanjuna #Bishop #Kigezi #overseer #COU #ChurchofUganda #Paul

Another episode of conflict is brewing in Kigezi Diocese of the Church of Uganda. Through his lawyer, Mr. Nelson Habasa, a member of the Church, wrote to the Provincial Secretary of the Church of Uganda, on March 31, 2023, to demand that a Provincial Tribunal be constituted to hear ...

Homosexuality: a medical doctor’s perspective

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 10, 20230 comments

#homosexuality #LGBTQ #gender #sexuality #Uganda

The conversation about human sexuality, including homosexuality, suffers from oversimplification. One understands the difficulty many people have with calls for sober consideration of this complex subject. I was once in their shoes. My upbringing as an African heterosexual male, and ...

Homosexuality in Africa: A Christian's perspective

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 4, 20231 comments

#Homosexuality #LGBT #Uganda

The Golden Rule: Matthew 7:12 (ESV) ******* I had hesitated to make public comment on homosexuality and Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill because the polarised positions taken, complete with abusive language, may not allow room for sober consideration of this complex subject. However, ...