Muniini K. Mulera

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 ...

New year, no change, except by God’s grace

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 6, 20250 comments

Image: Earth from space. (NASA) Humanity’s artificial calendar has declared a new year. A couple of thousand years and change have passed since the birth of Jesus Christ. A very tiny moment in the grand scheme of things. Celebrated by many people with feasts, fights, ...

Syrian strongman flees; Ghanaian democrat concedes

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 10, 20240 comments

Photo: Statue of Kwame Nkrumah, Accra, Ghana What a week! Two genuinely democratic elections in Africa. A seismic collapse of a decades’ old family dictatorship in the Middle East. Truth be told, the democratic events a source of immense pleasure for me. The third ...

Untamed anger of “honourable” adults in parliament

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 12, 20240 comments

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

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, ...

Ugandan youth and elders need each other

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 15, 20241 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

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 ...

Thin hope for peaceful presidential transition in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 24, 20240 comments

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 ...

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