Muniini K. Mulera

Another Boda Boda Death: A Preventable Tragedy

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 14, 20260 comments

My neighbour died on Thursday of last week. Killed by a Boda Boda rider, who hit him from behind, inflicting severe head injuries. The victim was taken to Mparo Health Centre IV, where he died about 22 hours later. Robert Tumwesigye wa Katagirwa ka Kyakuguru kya Byabahwamu ...

Genius of the Founders of King’s College Budo

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 31, 20260 comments

Budonian from the class of 1916. Photo on July 1, 2006 © Muniini K. Mulera There are institutions that merely educate, and there are institutions that shape the destiny of nations. King’s College Budo, the guardian of the sacred hill of Naggalabi ...

The Joy of Old Age

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 3, 20261 comments

There is a particular quality of light that comes only in the late afternoon — orange, warm, slanted, and unhurried. Sit on a hill on the east side of Lake Bunyonyi and you will be rewarded with an awesome sight as the sun sets over Mount Muhabura to the west. Old age, ...

Vote Buying and the Collapse of Uganda’s Democratization Experiment

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 26, 20260 comments

The erosion of Uganda’s democratization experiment may be approaching the point of no return. The rulers’ overt contempt for democracy is shared by their subjects. While the rulers employ the state’s instruments of coercion, violence and vote tally manipulation, ...

Uganda’s excellent anti-noise pollution laws need serious enforcement now

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 22, 20250 comments

My wife and I successfully fled from noisy Kampala last week and have taken refuge in a quieter corner of our country. Not the perfect hideaway, for noise pollution is here as well, albeit less annoying than the incessant and inescapable emissions that assaulted our ears in Kampala. ...

Grace Bikangaga was a mother of all

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 1, 20250 comments

Mrs. Grace Kampire Bikangaga in 1985 Photo courtesy of Willis Shalita of Austin, Texas, USA ***** Grace Kampire Bikangaga, who died at the age of nearly 101 years last week, was a classic woman of substance that enjoyed universal respect without demanding honour. She ...

Dr. Semu Sinagabula Musoke’s courage and exemplary professionalism

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 27, 20250 comments

Dr. Semu Sinagabula Musoke, who died in Nairobi on October 26, was my friend and hero. My love for him was not because of what he did for me, which was a lot, but who he was. Semu was a down-to-earth gentleman that understood his place as an equal among God’s ...

Raila Odinga’s death and legacy

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 20, 20250 comments

Death. A daily event that assaults our peace, induces anxiety and sadness, and frightens us deeply. It frightens us so much that we do not like to talk about it. When we do, we prefer euphemisms that soften the blow. People “pass away”, they “pass on”, ...

Reflections on Rukiga District

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 13, 20250 comments

Rukiga District, in its eighth year since its formal creation on July 1, 2017, has been the focus of my reflections during our celebration of Uganda’s sixty-three years of independence. Rukiga, my primary home in Uganda since I was a toddler, was one of the six counties ...

Bureaucrats ignored Museveni’s directive to pay Dr. Byabanyagi’s estate

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 25, 20251 comments

Dr. Apuuli Sanyu Wilson Byabanyagi (1949-2021) President Yoweri Museveni’s positive attributes include his kindness to soldiers that have served in Uganda’s armies since the colonial period. For a man who spent years fighting against the armies of Field Marshall ...

Money, Waragi, intimidation, and NRM’s democracy

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 28, 20250 comments

In his excellent commentary published in the May 15 edition of Business and Financial Times, an Accra newspaper, Edward Boateng spoke a painful truth about our failure to maintain and grow functional institutions, organisations, and services that Africa inherited from its colonial ...

Foibe Biteete Rugumayo (1937-2025): a Christian woman of class and honour.

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 21, 20251 comments

Photo: Phoebe Biteete Rugumayo (middle) with visitors at her home in Fort Portal on January 23, 2018. ******* I feel under-qualified to write about Foibe Biteete Rugumayo, whose death on the morning of July 9, marked the earthly end of my teacher, mentor, and role model that ...

Mutaagas’ murder and Diasporans’ fear of home

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 14, 20250 comments

David Baagala Mutaaga and Deborah Naizuwa Mutaaga had looked forward to a happy and enjoyable golden age of retirement in Uganda. After four decades away from home, during which they had worked very hard in Switzerland, they moved into their lovely home in Entebbe following ...

Why support a particular candidate for parliament?

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 7, 20250 comments

When the National Resistance Movement (NRM), Uganda’s ruling political party, completes its primary election of parliamentary candidates next week, we shall be able to critically evaluate those who seek to represent us in our respective constituencies. Four constituencies ...

Dr. John Owange Iraka and The Rewards of Endeavour

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 19, 20250 comments

John Owange Iraka has two fascinating sides to his character. He is a very quiet man, almost shy on first encounter. He is also endowed with an excellent sense of humour that he dispenses in small doses, interspersed with silent breaks, before returning with a rib-cracking ...

Sam Nujoma’s legacy

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 10, 20250 comments

I shed tears of joy when Sam Nujoma took the oath of office as President of independent Namibia on March 21, 1990. My tears were a cathartic response to victory against Apartheid, that criminal policy that had enslaved millions of Southern African people in their homelands ...

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