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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 ...

Anita Among’s political suicide

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 14, 20240 comments

The Right Honourable Anita Annett Among’s goose is cooked. Or if, like me, you prefer African languages to English, dada yetu Among yuko hatarini, ali mu mitawana, ari omukabi.  The Ateso say it best. Adaun ngin. She is finished. There is no better example of this ...

Do African lives in Congo matter to us?

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 12, 20240 comments

The war between Israel and Hamas has triggered great angst among many Africans. Many on social media platforms to which I belong have engaged in passionate debate about the horror in Gaza. Most have expressed sympathy with the Palestinians, and anger with the Israelis.  They ...

David Bakibinga’s unique autobiography belongs on the reference shelf

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 5, 20240 comments

I have completed my second reading of “Administrator and Scholar: The autobiography of Professor David J. Bakibinga,” which was published in 2021. When I first read this book following its release in 2022, my impression was that this was two books in one. Half of it was ...

Salva Kiir’s health and language struggles, and the enslaved African

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 27, 20230 comments

Following his election last week as chairman of the East African Community Summit, President Salva Kiir Mayardit of the Republic of South Sudan delivered his inaugural address to his peers and representatives of member states gathered in Arusha, Tanzania. His address was a painfully ...

Another African president joins small club of democrats.

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 20, 20230 comments

Photo: Monrovia, Liberia ****  Sixty-five years after the fabled wind of change blew across Africa, genuine democracy remains elusive in most countries in our beloved continent. Democratization efforts of the 1990s retreated to the more comfortable swamps of choreographed rituals ...

Latest scientific glance at the Creation of Earth and life.

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 25, 20230 comments

The beautiful Christian song, “How Great Thou Art,” has been in my heart and on my tongue since the arrival on Planet Earth on Sunday, September 24th, of a small sample of dirt and gravel from an asteroid with the lovely name of Bennu.   With an estimated weight ...

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