Muniini K. Mulera

Shaka Ssali: the Kabaare Kid who made good very good (Part 1)

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 1, 20255 comments

#Shaka #Ssali #Igabiro #Abatimbo #Kigyezi #Kabale #Kabaare #Kigezi #Turyagyenda #Mushakamba #Butobere #Wamala #Masulita #Buganda

Photo: Kikungiri Primary School graduates who joined Junior 1 (Grade 7) at Kigezi High School in January 1962. Front: L to R - Geoffrey Dutki (forester), Kagambirwe (cobbler), Shaka Ssali (journalist). Back: L to R - Francis Tusingwire (veterinary doctor), Alfred Nyesigire (teacher), ...

The Diplomatic Passport

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 17, 20250 comments

#Passport #Diplomatic #Uganda #Mushanga #Canada

The passport may not be a priority item for most people, but it is an indispensable requirement for the international traveller. It has been around for a little while, the earliest mention of it that I know dating back to around 450 BC. We read about it in Chapter 2, ...

When two elephants fight …. a proverb revisited

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 25, 20250 comments

#Elephants #Uganda #Raila #Odina #Ruto #Mibali #Uhuru #Kenyatta

“Ndlovu wawili wakisongana, ziumiazo ni nyika.” When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt. This great proverb, coined by an ancient Gikuyu person, is a truth that few, if any, would dispute. A fight between the powerful invariably hurts those around ...

Anti-Banyarwanda discrimination is Uganda's national shame

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 4, 20250 comments

#Abanyarwanda #Banyarwanda #Rwanda #Batutsi #Uganda

Abanyarwanda of Uganda are denied their rights of citizenship of their homeland. They are harassed and treated as non-citizens because of their ethnicity. They must prove that they are citizens of Uganda, or else they “go back to where they came from.” I struggle to find ...

Uyirwoth Saved Budo.

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 14, 20250 comments

#Budo #Uyirwoth #Robinson #Kyanda #Bonnell #Gillard #Uganda

Ismael Joash Kadilo Uyirwoth may not have been well known to most present-day Ugandans. However, Uyirwoth, the ninth headmaster of King’s College, Budo (1975-1979), who died at the age of 82 on January 5, deserves a place of honour among the most impactful post-independence ...

International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB): the first years

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 23, 20240 comments

#ICOB #Uganda #Kigyezi #Kigezi

By Munini K. Mulera Toronto, Canada December 23, 2024 Like all organizations that are meant to last and be impactful, the International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB) was born after a long gestation period (okugir’enda) and labour (ebisha.) ICOB was neither a single ...

Untamed anger of “honourable” adults in parliament

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 12, 20240 comments

#Uganda #Parliament #Obote #Nadine #Kenyatta #Pinto #brawls

Have you ever been angry in your adult life? Do you still get angry sometimes? If your answer to either of these questions is “no”, please do not read any further. Call your doctor. Seek an urgent referral to a mental health specialist for professional evaluation and, ...

Botswana’s anthem fulfilled; Uganda’s betrayed

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 4, 20240 comments

#Botswana #Uganda #Masisi #Boko #Kgalemang #Tumediso #Motsete #Khama #Seretse

The seismic shift in Botswana’s political landscape last week is, so far, the most positive political development in Africa this year. Botswana, whose celebrated democracy had been backsliding in recent years, is born again. It has passed the essential test of democratic consolidation, ...

Preventable fuel tanker fiery deaths

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 28, 20240 comments

#BLEVE #Kigogwa #Kigoogwa #Kyanamira #fire #fuel #tanker #Uganda

Kyanamira, Kabaare inferno, Saturday October 26, 2024 Photographer: Unknown Last week’s fiery accidents in Uganda are another wake-up call to action. The first accident occurred at Kigoogwa, a town just north of Kampala, on Tuesday October 22. The driver lost control ...

Ugandan youth and elders need each other

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 15, 20241 comments

#Youth #Uganda #ANT

Hillary Niwagaba posted a “protest letter to the aged leaders” on a community WhatsApp Group last week, in which he wrote: “Dear honorable leaders. We, the younger generation, remember when you visited our schools, encouraging us to study hard and become future ...

Rigathi Gachagua’s day of Machiavellian reckoning

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 21, 20240 comments

#Gachagua #Ruto #Kenyatta #Moi #Pinto #Mboya #Kariuki #Tuko #Muge #Machiavelli #Kenya #Uganda #Nyayo #Moi

Photo: Nyayo House, Nairobi © Muniini K. Mulera Following his fall from the deputy presidency of Kenya last week, Rigathi Gachagua expressed his shock at the way his “brother and friend” President William Ruto had treated him. “I did not know that ...

Thin hope for peaceful presidential transition in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 24, 20240 comments

#Uganda

I watched a video clip in which two Ugandan cabinet ministers lectured civil servants about the latter’s supposed obligation to be blindly loyal to the current president and his political party. The ministers were condescendingly unequivocal in their harangues. “It is ...

Quality, not quantity of doctors, must be Uganda’s priority

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 9, 20240 comments

#Uganda #doctors #medical #schools

Whereas full employment and continued education of all recent medical graduates in Uganda is of utmost urgency, it should be accompanied by concurrent, independent external reviews of the fourteen medical schools in the country. Thirteen of these medical schools have been started ...

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

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 22, 20181 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 ...

Medical interns need help from their elders in their struggle for recognition as doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 2, 20240 comments

#Doctors #Uganda #Makerere #Mulago #Interns

Photo: left to right - E. M. K. Muwazi, E.S. Lubulwa, Banoba in 1934. These doctors were officially called Senior African Medical Assistants. (© Makerere Medical School Archives) From the first three graduates of Makerere Medical School in 1927 – Antonio ...

Doctors need fair pay and respect, not lectures about patriotism

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 26, 20240 comments

#Doctors #Uganda #patriotism #interns

I gather that my president gave a civics lesson to 210 medical doctors that have recently been subjected to something called “patriotism and ideological training” at the NRM political indoctrination school at Kyankwanzi. This school has the benign sounding name of “National ...