Muniini K. Mulera

Ugandan youth and elders need each other

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 15, 20240 comments

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 ...

Equatorial Guinea and the curse of Macias Nguema Biyogo

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 7, 20240 comments

#Nguema #Malabo #Equatorial #Guinea #Biyogo #Mbasogo

Ruthless rulers have been part of the human story since the beginning of recorded history. Even in recent “civilised” times, numerous dictators have popped up to maintain the tradition. The twentieth century alone gave us a cast of brutal rulers that qualified for ...

Gayaza Cohort of ’67: bonds that transcended superficial cleavages

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 30, 20240 comments

#Gayaza #1967

L-R: Robinah Rwabirima, Anne Barabogoza, Freda Kiyingi, Harriet Mayanja, Saturday September 28, 2024 (Photographer: unknown) ************************** When more than sixty girls enrolled in senior one at Gayaza High School in January 1967, they joined a very select group for whom ...

Genealogy Database of East Africans

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaMay 23, 20162 comments

One of my frustrations is that I do not know much about my ancestry. In the absence of written records, we depend on oral tradition of “documenting” our story. This, of course, is fraught with errors and complete distortions, missing links and a very limited database. For example, ...

Clans and totems of Banyankore (Enganda n'Emiziro y'Abanyankore)

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziJanuary 2, 20192 comments

The Banyankore are grouped into at least 131 clans (enganda). However, these clans are grouped according to 4 (four) common roots (ebibunu or ebisintsi bina). These roots are: Abahinda (16 clans) Abagahe (43 clans) Abashambo (56 clans) Abaishikatwa (16 clans) Whereas ...

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 ...

Botswana’s democratic backsliding need not be fatal

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 16, 20240 comments

#Botswana #Seretse #Khama #Masisi #Masire #Mogae

Photo: Botswana Parliament Building in Gaberone ********************************************************* The Republic of Botswana has enjoyed a very high place on the honor roll of Africa’s stable democracies since its independence on September 30, 1966. It has only been second ...

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 ...

Who is responsible for the collapse of Kiteezi dump?

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 20, 20240 comments

#Kiteezi #Kampala #Uganda #garbage

In the aftermath of the deadly collapse of the garbage mountain at Kiteezi near Kampala, President Yoweri Museveni asked: “Who allowed people to live near such a potentially hazardous and dangerous heap?” I believe that the president asked this question in good faith. ...

Government should change attitude towards medical doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 5, 20240 comments

#Doctors #Uganda #Makerere #Mulago #Interns

Last week’s video recordings of some Uganda Police officers verbally and physically abusing Ugandan doctors caused great distress to many of us. The victims were fresh graduates from the famous Makerere University Medical School. Their crime? Peaceful assembly at the medical ...

Dr. Herman Joseph Musiitwa: an impactful life

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 30, 20240 comments

#Musiitwa

Dr. Herman Joseph Musiitwa Photo © Muniini K. Mulera We mourn a friend and colleague whose death at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, on Friday July 26 has cast a chilly and dark shadow. Dr. Herman Joseph Musiitwa, a senior consultant surgeon in Masaka, was a beloved ...

On Biden, Trump and the question of age

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 22, 20240 comments

#Biden #Trump #Kamala #Harris #America

The news that Joe Biden, the president of the United States of America, had withdrawn from the race for re-election, arrived with an aroma of hope, and a smile-inducing sound of America restored. It is too early to tell, for the American voter is very unpredictable. They may yet return ...

Ruto should complete Zakayo's story

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 16, 20240 comments

#Ruto #Zakayo #Zacchaeus #Kenya #Uganda #Kangire

Photo: Children in rural Uganda; are they citizens too? ***************** Kenyans call their current president Zakayo, after Zacchaeus, the height-challenged tax collector at Jericho two thousand years ago, who was reportedly very wealthy. President William Samoei Ruto’s ...