Muniini K. Mulera

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 ...

Botswana’s democratic backsliding need not be fatal

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 16, 20240 comments

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

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 ...

Doctors need fair pay and respect, not lectures about patriotism

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 26, 20240 comments

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

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. ...

Ruto should complete Zakayo's story

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 16, 20240 comments

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 ...

Private healthcare unaffordable, but free healthcare not free.

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 23, 20241 comments

When one of my close relatives became critically ill in Kampala last week, he was taken to a neighbourhood clinic where preliminary tests revealed the most likely cause. His family took him to Najjera Hospital in Kiwatule, where Dr. Patson Ndyakira Makobore promptly evaluated ...

Corruption, an evil that nourishes the NRM’s rule in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 11, 20240 comments

I heard the speech. I lost all hope. My optimism, crashed by words, spoken by my president, in his State-of-the-Nation address. An opportunity lost, another surrender to corruption, Uganda’s greatest threat. Having nurtured a state, of unprecedented corruption, my president ...

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