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 ...

Doctors’ apathy and Uganda Medical Association’s problems

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 12, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #Ruskin #Cook #Odonga #Kasirye #Senbeguya #Semambo #Mwesigye #Mungherera #KibukaMusoke #Billington #UMA #BMA #Oleo

Photo: Prof. Alexander Mwa Odonga MB ChB, FRCS, LMS (EA), Dip. Med. (EA), President of the BMA (Uganda Branch) 1964, President of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa 1971-1972, Dean of Makerere Medical School, 1975-1977. ********************* Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, who knelt ...

No American, Briton or Ugandan is indispensable

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 24, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Britain #United #Kingdom #USA #America #Trump #Sunak #Obama #FDR #Roosevelt #Kennedy #Churchill #Atlee #Macmillan #Reagan #Thatcher

British politics is in crisis. Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned in disgrace on July 7. His successor, Prime Minister Elizabeth Truss, who took office on September 6, resigned in disgrace on October 20. The fall of the two prime ministers dented Britain’s reputation for ...

Music for Intore and other African dances: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ A Night in Tunisia

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicOctober 16, 20220 comments

#Kozos #waltz #Night #in #Tunisia #Art #Blakey #Intore #Lee #Morgan #Jamie #Merritt #Wayne #Shorter #Bobby #Timmons #Jazz

Jazz music, rooted in the African slave experience and its aftermath in America, is music that has maintained the link with the African American’s ancestral homeland. No instrument exemplifies this better than drums and, to my ears, Art Blakey was one of the greatest purveyors ...

Ready for Freddie - a Desert Island Disc

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 10, 20220 comments

#Freddie #Hubbard #Ready #for #Freddie #McCoy #Tyner #Art #Davis #Elvin #Jones #Blue #Note

The date: August 21, 1961 The venue: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood, New Jersey, USA The musicians: Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Bernard McKinney (euphonium), McCoy Tyner (piano), Art Davis (bass), Elvin Jones (drums). Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder Label: Blue Note ...

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 ...

A changing Britain, and my mother’s verdict on colonialism

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 13, 20221 comments

#Britain #Queen #Elizabeth #II #King #Charles #III #colonialism #slavery #Africa #Truss

What a week this last one was! On Tuesday, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom receives two prime ministers at Balmoral Castle. She accepts the resignation of Boris Johnson, a male, her fourteenth prime minister. She requests Elizabeth Truss, a female, to form a government as ...

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 ...

Sublime viola da gamba music of Marin Marais played by Jordi Savall

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Classical MusicApril 3, 20220 comments

#Marin #Marais #Jordi #Savall #Frech #music #Baroque

Marin Marais (1656-1728) was a French composer of music and the supreme master player of the viola da gamba whom history remembers for two key accomplishments: He composed some of the most beautiful music of the Baroque period. He biologically fathered 19 children with Catherine ...

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Classical MusicAugust 8, 20210 comments

#Beethoven #Kempff #Berlin #Philharmonic #Piano #Concerto #No #1 #Leitner

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 Soloist: Wilhelm Kempff (Piano) Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner Recorded: June 29, 1961 Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin, West Germany Label: Deutsche Grammophon 138774 SLPM The Second ...

Bobby Hutcherson kicks up musically beautiful dust

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicFebruary 17, 20210 comments

#Bobby #Hutcherson #The #Kicker #Blue #Note #Tone #Poet #Herbie #Hancock #Joe #Henderson #Grant #Green #Duke #Pearson #Bob #Cranshaw #Al #Harewood #Bedouin #Jazz

Title: The Kicker Label: Blue Note 21437, Tone Poet Series Recorded: December 29, 1963, Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA First released on CD in 1999 First released on vinyl LP in 2020 Musicians: Bobby Hutcherson (vibes), Joe Henderson (tenor sax), ...

Byrd in Flight by Donald Byrd celebrated Ghana’s independence

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicFebruary 15, 20210 comments

#Donald #Byrd #Byrd #in #Flight #Ghana #Jazz #Blue #Note #Tone #Poet

I have spent the evening enjoying some of the great Jazz music reissues by Blue Note in its Tone Poet Series. This one is another masterpiece by Donald Byrd. To my ears, one of the best among his recordings. This one is special because of its celebration of Ghana which had become ...

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. ...

Trump, Kenyatta and the autocrats’ invincibility

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 5, 20200 comments

#Trump #Stalin #Kennedy #Brezhnev #Kenyatta #Njonjo #Nkurunziza #YArdua #Bongo #Mao #Zedong

If he had had his way, Donald J. Trump would have concealed the news of his Covid-19. However, his leaky White House having informed a journalist that Hope Hicks, one of his closest aides, had tested positive for the disease, Trump quickly announced his own diagnosis to the world ...

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 ...

Kenyatta, Kumar and the Nytil security guard

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 25, 20201 comments

#Kenyatta #Kumar #Muyomba #Nytil #COVID19 #in #Uganda

The Saturday Monitor brought news of Mr. George Muyomba, a security guard at Nyanza Textile Industries Limited (Nytil) in Jinja, who was fired because he did his job. According to the story, on May 6 Muyomba denied Mr. Vinay Kumar access to the Nytil premises because ...

Corruption behind the Makerere student strike - By Janet K. Museveni, Ugandan Minister of Education

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 30, 20190 comments

#Corruption #in #Uganda #Janet #Museveni #Makerere #University #Student #strike

(Photo of Mrs Janet Museveni by State House, Uganda) To the Ugandan Children who Call me Maama by Choice, Today, I would like to discuss the topic of corruption with you. The Oxford English Dictionary defines corruption as the dishonest or illegal behavior especially ...

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 ...

US Gun Violence on its way to Uganda?

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments

#Gun #violence #in #USA #and #Uganda

FROM THE ARCHIVES US Gun Violence on its way to Uganda? By Muniini K. Mulera March 6, 2000 Dear Tingasiga: The television screen came alive last week with yet more pictures of armed police officers with body armour, crouching behind trees and motor vehicles, ...

Do not kneel before me, I am only a man myself

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 24, 20180 comments

#Christmas #Uganda #Christianity #Poverty #in #Uganda

Today, Christmas Day, church sanctuaries across the land will be full of worshippers, gathered together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The clergy will be seated at the altars or other distinct places of honour. Front pews will be reserved for what the world calls VIPs ...

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 ...