Muniini K. Mulera

Budo co-education@90: female leadership the next goal.

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 27, 20230 comments

#Budo #Grace #Aggrey #Fraser #Achimota #Kandy

Photo: Budo Pioneer girls. (Photographer - unknown. 1934) Ninety years ago this year, ten (perhaps twelve) girls were admitted at King’s College, Budo, a 27-year-old school hitherto exclusively dedicated to the education of boys. The girls - Flora Kawalya, ...

For our sobriety, legally ban alcohol promotion

By Talibita MosesUgandaFebruary 22, 20230 comments

Yes, alcohol may not be the only legally recognized substance taking away your sobriety, but the fact that 12.6 million Ugandans continue to drink alcohol and that 110.6M liters were consumed in the year of the study according to Uganda Alcohol Policy Alliance, is an issue deserving ...

Address delays of accessing safe childbirth in Uganda to save mothers

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 7, 20230 comments

#MMR #maternal #mortality #morbidity #Uganda

There is a preventable tragedy that hardly engages sustained public interest. The Monitor newspaper, among others, has faithfully reported stories of women who have had bad experiences in labour, some of whom have died. Such news quickly disappears, unless the victim ...

Death in traffic crashes not God’s will

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 9, 20230 comments

#Bus #crash #Kamdini #Uganda #deaths

Photo: After the bus crashed in Kamudini, Oyam, Lango. © The Monitor Reckless drivers continue to take precious lives. News just came in that a speeding driver killed 21 of his passengers, and seriously injured 49 others, when he overturned his bus on Saturday ...

Mugambas killed by a human being, not a motor vehicle

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 3, 20230 comments

#Mugamba #Ulrich #Elli #Tara #Kamurasi #Winyi #Uganda #roads

Extremely horrifying. Suddenly, violently, the Mugambas – Ulrich Kamurasi, and his first cousins Elli Winyi and Tara Byanjeru- killed by a reckless driver on Friday December 30, 2022. Precious lives of beautiful, innocent young adults, very much in the mid-morning of their ...

Memories of a Ugandan Christmas and lessons from a Canadian experience

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaDecember 27, 20220 comments

#Christmas #Rusoorooza #Rushoroza #Rugarama #Kigyezi #Kigezi #Kabale #Kabaare

St. Peter's Cathedral, Rugarama, Kabaare, Kigyezi on December 25, 2019. Photo © Muniini K. Mulera ******************* I trust that you had a blessed Christmas celebration. This was our third Christmas in a row celebrated away from Uganda. The Lord, of course, always delights ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Samuel Oledo has disqualified himself from leadership of Uganda’s doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 5, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #UMA #Oledo

The current president of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has brought great shame and embarrassment to the profession of medicine. While speaking at the Patriotism for Youth and Investment Symposium at Kololo Independence Grounds on Saturday December 3, Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, ...

Gerald Wilson Big Band: Moment of Truth

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicNovember 29, 20220 comments

#Big #band #Jazz #Gerald #Wilson #Tone #Poet

Gerald Stanley Wilson (1918-2014) was a trumpeter, composer, arranger, educator, and big band leader. Born in Shelby, Mississippi, he spent most of his adult life in Los Angele, California. This record, which was made at the Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles, in August, and ...

Inherited land wrangles in Uganda: a reality check

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 29, 20220 comments

#Land #Uganda #inheritance #wrangles

There is nothing new about inter-personal land wrangles in Uganda. Growing up in Kigyezi in the 1960s, stories of fights over plot boundaries, land ownership, and land inheritance were part of our informal education. In those days, Kigyezi and Bugisu were leading theatres of homicides ...

Paul Ssemogerere’s epitaph: A rebel with hope and perseverance

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 22, 20220 comments

#Ssemogerere #DP #Obote #Museveni #Okello #Lutwa #Uganda

Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere was a rebel. The soft, smiling type, with an easily underestimated resolve. The under-appreciated hero because his conquests did not include blood and human corpses. There was a time when I did not appreciate Ssemogerere’s politics. Why, ...

Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden: Part 3 – The Pearl of Africa’s Crown, a land flowing with milk and honey – Uganda’s legendary potential

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaNovember 19, 20220 comments

Central message: Part 3 briefly sketches what once made Uganda a model developing nation, that was cited as a development success story: an idyllic natural setting; ethnic diversity of inter-ethnic many commonalities; the streak of a cosmopolitan nation; an effective public administration ...

Is Museveni stepping down in 2026?

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 14, 20220 comments

#Museveni #Muhoozi #Kainerugaba #Uganda

Many Ugandan political commentators appear to be convinced that the “presidential succession” game is already in play. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has been anointed the leading candidate. Numerous people, at home and abroad, are falling over each ...

Gayaza High School deserves our financial support

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 7, 20220 comments

#Gayaza #Masembe #Mpanga #Bagaaya #Nsibirwa #Kalema #Kasule #Obote #Mugwanya #Kadama #Kavuma

(Some of the Gayaza girls at the gathering in Kampala on November 5, 2022. Left - right: Jane Nannono Kavuma Kayonga [red top], Barbara Kibaya Kiwanuka, Florence Isabirye Muranga [standing], Rowena Sempa Ndugga, Christina Mugwanya Kadama, and Jennifer Wanyoto Musiime.) ------------------------- The ...

Rukiga District: brief facts and figures

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziOctober 27, 20223 comments

#Rukiga #Mparo #Muhanga #Bukinda #Kamuheesi #Kamwezi #Kashambya #Rwamucuucu

District: Rukiga Total Area: 426.3 sq. km. Population: 106,000 people (2021) Males: 51,300 (2021) Females: 54,700 (2021) Male: Female ratio: 0.94:1 Population density: 249/sq. km. Geography: Rukiga is a mountainous boot-shaped wedge in South West Uganda, ...