Muniini K. Mulera

Create more Ugandan technical colleges, not universities.

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 18, 20240 comments

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 ...

David Bakibinga’s unique autobiography belongs on the reference shelf

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 5, 20240 comments

#Bakibinga #Makerere #Budo #URA

I have completed my second reading of “Administrator and Scholar: The autobiography of Professor David J. Bakibinga,” which was published in 2021. When I first read this book following its release in 2022, my impression was that this was two books in one. Half of it was ...

Dr. Aggrey Kiyingi, Dr. Joseph Bukenya and The Class of 1977

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 23, 20230 comments

#Kiyingi #Bukenya #Makerere #Mulago #Class #1977

Photo: Dr. John Mary "Joseph" Bukenya It has been a very dark October for The Class of 1977, that being the year that we graduated from Makerere Medical School, Kampala. Our ranks have been thinned once again, with the deaths of two dear brothers with whom we shared five ...

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 ...

Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba: an excellent choice as President of UMA

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 19, 20220 comments

#Edith #NakkuJoloba #UMA #Uganda #Medical #Association #Makerere #Mulago

The election of Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba on Sunday December 18 as the new president of Uganda Medical Association (UMA) is excellent news. It restores the 58-year-old organization to a path its founders and sustainers envisaged, namely, a robust organization that promotes and maintains ...

Sunset: Gen. Elly Tumwine safe and free

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 30, 20220 comments

#Tumwine #Uganda #Makerere #Salvation

Gen. Elly Tumwine was human. Neither saint nor villain, the son of Kazigirye na Ruhondeire of Burunga, Kazo, Nkore walked a journey whose story is yet to be told, one that must not be reduced to errors he made in his final years or peppered over with deification as though he ...

Dr. Apuuli Sanyu Byabanyagi: a patriot betrayed by his government

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 6, 20210 comments

#Byabanyagi #Makerere #Medical #School

This time fifty years ago, young men and women in various parts of Africa, preparing to write their university entrance examinations, probably did not have death on their minds. Not their own or that of close colleagues with whom they were preparing to conquer the world. Among ...

Makerere fire and the nakedness of the pot calling the kettle black

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 22, 20200 comments

#Makerere #Kampala #Janet #Museveni #Stockholm #syndrome #Fire #Nawangwe

Naked. That is the depressing image in my mind as I think of Makerere University Main Hall, desecrated by a force that torched the magnificent 79-year-old building this past weekend, leaving it physically headless and its innards gutted. In a matter of hours, the iconic building was ...

Bad personal year eased by great music and dance

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 20, 20200 comments

#2019 #Makerere #University #St #Augustine #Chapel #St #Francis #Chapel

One searches in vain for a phrase that accurately describes the year 2019. The Bakiga would call it omwaka mubi (bad year). Kiswahili speakers would call it mwaka wa huzuni. Latin speakers would call it annus horribilis. None of these quite describes a year of great personal ...

Janet Museveni: Obey God, hear your people’s cry and rebel against injustice

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 4, 20190 comments

#Janet #Museveni #Makerere #strike #Peaceful #resistance #Christianity #and #disobedience

Janet Museveni, Uganda’s minister of education and wife of the president, wrote an impassioned letter last week in response to the student strike at Makerere University. In her letter, Janet focused on corruption among the students, including alleged use of paid professional ...

Response to Janet Museveni: Did you speak as First Lady, Minister of Education, Pastor or Grandma? - By Andrew Karamagi

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 30, 20190 comments

#Janet #Museveni #Makerere #Strikes #Andrew #Karamagi

Dear “Maama”, To begin with, I have a mother, just like millions of other Ugandans. This is both a statement of fact and a biological necessity. Even though I am one of those who cannot, for a number of reasons, refer to you as Maama, I am of the firm view ...

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 ...

Universities in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 26, 20190 comments

#Universities #Uganda #Makerere #Kyambogo #Mbarara #Kumi #Mukono #Ndejje #Uganda #Martyrs #UCU #Gulu #Muni #Soroti #Nkumba

Universities in Uganda Date: Saturday October 26, 2019 Source: Uganda National Council for Higher Education Public Universities: Busitema, Tororo, Bukedi Gulu, Acholi Kabale, Kabaare, Kigyezi Kyambogo, Kampala Lira, Lango Makerere, Kampala ...

Like the Proverbial Bad Penny……I had turned up again - By Dr. Jane Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda EducationSeptember 21, 20172 comments

#Makerere #Medical #School #Class #of #1977

Photo: Class of 1977, Makerere University Medical School. (Photo credit: Medical Illustration Department, Makerere.) Throughout my teenage years, I used to suffer from acute attacks of sore throat especially during the hot and dry December holidays. On one such occasion, ...

Grateful that I chose a career in medicine - By Dr. Jane Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 21, 20170 comments

#Nannono #medicine #medical #school #makerere

Students continue to graduate from the eleven or so universities in my country during this month of March. I graduated forty years ago and by then, there was one university: Makerere University. Currently there are six public universities. Forty years today, I ...

Forty years later, not ready to hang up the stethoscope

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 20, 20170 comments

#muniini #mulera #makerere #medical #school #medicine #graduation

It has been forty years since our class took the final bow from undergraduate life at Makerere University. We had shared five long years of learning, of pushing each other to excel, of building friendships and of supporting each other through very difficult experiences. We ...