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Are computer and cellphone screens safe for your eyes?

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksDecember 22, 20210 comments

In a discussion about our preferred reading media, my friend Manuel J. K. Muranga asked me whether e-book reading was safe for human eyes.  Manuel and I share a passion for printed books, and we readily plead guilty to being more comfortable with Johannes Gutenberg than ...

Rhoda Kalema's story of triumph over tragedy

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksOctober 4, 20211 comments

 My Life is But a Weaving: An Autobiography by Rhoda Kalema. Nairobi: Moran (E.A) Publishers, 2021.    At 92 years of age, Rhoda Nakibuuka Kalema has a story to tell. She successfully uses her 268-page autobiography to summarize a journey that has been mostly in the ...

Rwakyekoreire Buhano: An outstanding novel in Runyankore By Benedikito K. Mubangizi

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksOctober 4, 20210 comments

Rwakyekoreire Buhano – By Benedikito K. Mubangizi, USJMP, 2019   This novel, the first by Benedikito K. Mubangizi, was written in 1971. Originally published as a two-book series, this edition is the first presentation of the full story of the life of a man called Rwakyekoreire ...

ELSPETH HUXLEY: A BIOGRAPHY by C. S. Nicholls (Thomas Dunne Books, 2002)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksSeptember 15, 20210 comments

Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997) was an Anglo-Kenyan woman whose literary work on colonial Kenya and East Africa stands tall among the many books on the subject. Her books are witty, vividly descriptive of her subjects, and unafraid to say things as she saw them, unworried bout political ...

Defeat Is The Only Bad News: Rwanda Under Musinga, 1896-1931 - by Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJuly 1, 20200 comments

ALISON LIEBHAFSKY DES FORGES Defeat Is The Only Bad News: Rwanda Under Musinga, 1896-931 Foreword by Roger V. Des Forges Edited by David Newbury University of Wisconsin Press 2011   Defeat Is The Only bad News is the story of the reign (1896-1931) of Umwami (King) Yuhi Musinga ...

Forward to Independence: Memoirs by Fitz de Souza of Kenya

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksMay 13, 20200 comments

 Fitzval Remedios Santana Neville de Souza was a Kenyan, born in Goa, India, raised in Zanzibar, called to the Bar in London and with a lifetime of outstanding accomplishments, mostly in Kenya.   One of the defence lawyers for the Kapenguria Six, including Jomo Kenyatta, ...

The Forging of an African Nation: The Political and Constitutional Evolution of Uganda from Colonial Rule to Independence, 1894-1962 – By G.S.K Ibingira (1973)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 12, 20190 comments

Grace Stewart Katebariirwe Ibingira was a 30-year old youth at Uganda’s independence in 1962. A founder member of the Uganda People’s Congress in 1960, Ibingira was at the centre of national politics during those critical years of transition. Just a little over three years after ...

The Political Kingdom in Uganda: A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism – By David E. Apter (Revised Third Edition, 1997)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 12, 20190 comments

This book is an analytical study of the internal and external politics and systems of Buganda, the central and largest kingdom in Uganda. The development of political parties and the great conflicts in post 1900 Buganda are thoroughly presented and analysed. But more than politics, ...

Fabrication of EMPIRE: The British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890-1902 – By D. A. Low

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 11, 20190 comments

This book’s title could well have been “How Uganda came to be.”  D. A. Low, who taught at Makerere University College, Uganda, from 1951 to 1958, presents an excellent account and analysis of the formation of the post-1900 kingdoms of Ankole, Buganda, Bunyoro, Busoga and Toro. These ...

Sundiata: An Epic of Mali – By D.T. Niane (1965)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 11, 20190 comments

This is the English translation (by G.D. Pickett) of D.T. Niane’s part history/part legend of Sundiata Keita, the thirteenth century founder of the Great Empire of Mali, and great uncle of the famous Mansa Musa. It is a short but very captivating story, only 84 pages long. This ...

The Baganda: An Account of Their Native Customs and Beliefs - By Rev. John Roscoe (1911)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 11, 20190 comments

This is a classic book that has been reprinted many times since its publication in 1911. The Rev. John Roscoe (1861-1932), a civil engineer, was a member of the Church Missionary Society in Uganda from 1891 to 1909.  The book, based on notes he compiled, over an 18 year period, ...

The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History – By Jean-Pierre Chretien

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 11, 20190 comments

This is an English translation (by Scott Straus) of a scholarly book that successfully stitches together the complex and long story of kingdoms, chiefdoms, traditions, alliances, hatreds, settlements, movements, colonization, political independence and violence that have shaped one ...

The King’s Men: Leadership and Status in Buganda on the Eve of Independence - Edited by L.A. Fallers (1964)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 10, 20190 comments

  This is a multi-author presentation of Buganda’s progress during the century between first contact with Europeans and Independence in 1962. We learn about Buganda’s hierarchical political organization that was later exported to many parts of Uganda. The description and analysis ...

The Social Origins of Violence in Uganda, 1964-1985 – By A.B.K. Kasozi

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 10, 20190 comments

This is one of the most thorough and accessible examinations of Uganda’s post-independence violence and bloodshed. Professor Kasozi presents a compelling argument that the central problem has been social inequality, economic disparities, a culture of poor to absent conflict resolution ...

Origins of Kingship Traditions and Symbolism in the Great Lakes Region of Africa – By Birgitta Farelius (2008)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 11, 20190 comments

Tradition holds that the foundation stone of the kingdoms of the Great Lakes Area was laid by the Bacwezi, a mysterious people that lived and ruled the area before disappearing “into the lake.” Central to the Bacwezi community and their descendants was the cow as an economic commodity, ...

Two Kings of Uganda, or Life by the Shores of Victoria Nyanza, Being an Account of a Residence of Six Years in Eastern Equatorial Africa - By Robert Pickering Ashe.

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 10, 20190 comments

Allowing for the biased lenses of a British missionary, this is a very informative account of Buganda in the period 1883-86. Originally published in 1889, the copy I have is a Second Edition (1971) with a very good introduction by John Rowe, a historian, which is itself a concise ...

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