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Private donations key to modernizing Uganda's traditional schools

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 18, 20231 comments

Photo: Kihanga Secondary School ICT Centre will offer a learning environment similar to this. ************  The fundraising event for the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre at Kihanga Secondary School exceeded my expectation. Held at Kembabazi Restaurant in ...

Africa’s great volcanos and Uganda’s Alliance for National Transformation

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 31, 20230 comments

Photo: Gahinga, Sabyinyo, Bisoke, Mikeno and Karisimbi viewed from the Second Hut on Mount Muhabura. © Ezra Sebahire ************ The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), which was launched on Wednesday May 22, 2019, is like Ibirunga, the eight volcanic mountains in Africa’s ...

Diaspora Banyakigezi Organization not part of Muhoozi Kainerugaba Project

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 26, 20230 comments

Photo: Comrades walking paths we trod decades ago *********************************************************   The conmen are at it again. President Yoweri Museveni has been repeatedly conned by some Diaspora Ugandans into believing that they have thousands of supporters of the ...

Legacy of David John Kanabahita (March 24, 1934 – June 11, 2023) ​

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 12, 20230 comments

School teaching is the most important profession. That you are reading this is evidence of my assertion. As a literate professional, you stand on broad shoulders of those who taught you how to read, write and count. That was a foundation without which all else was impossible, except ...

Homosexuality: Ugandan scientific research needed

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 25, 20230 comments

President Yoweri Museveni respects science and scientists. He often exercises admirable patience before making evidence-based decisions. It is my hope that he will exercise the same patience and insistence on solid evidence before assenting to an amended Anti-Homosexuality Bill.  ...

Death in traffic crashes not God’s will

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 9, 20230 comments

Photo: After the bus crashed in Kamudini, Oyam, Lango. © The Monitor   Reckless drivers continue to take precious lives.  News just came in that a speeding driver killed 21 of his passengers, and seriously injured 49 others, when he overturned his bus on Saturday ...

Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba: an excellent choice as President of UMA

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 19, 20220 comments

The election of Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba on Sunday December 18 as the new president of Uganda Medical Association (UMA) is excellent news. It restores the 58-year-old organization to a path its founders and sustainers envisaged, namely, a robust organization that promotes and maintains ...

Doctors’ apathy and Uganda Medical Association’s problems

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 12, 20220 comments

Photo: Prof. Alexander Mwa Odonga MB ChB, FRCS, LMS (EA), Dip. Med. (EA), President of the BMA (Uganda Branch) 1964, President of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa 1971-1972, Dean of Makerere Medical School, 1975-1977. ********************* Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, who knelt ...

British, African and Sri Lankan rulers’ disconnect with reality

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 13, 20220 comments

I am in a summer mood, enjoying much longed-for sunshine. A cheerful smile is in permanent residence on my face. I laugh easily and take news of painful events in stride. I watch human folly with a shrug, unbothered by most things beyond my control. However, I confess that some things ...

Peter Ekodeu: Uganda’s first African English news reader

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 4, 20220 comments

Peter William Ekodeu would have turned 88 this year. Like many who played significant roles in independent Uganda’s early history, Ekodeu is largely forgotten by the country that he helped shape and served with honour.   Born on October 21, 1934, in Soroti, Teso to Elizabeth ...

Christopher Gamparo gave back to his people

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 27, 20220 comments

Christopher Bernard Gamparo 1939-2022 (Photo © Amoni Gamparo)   His name announced his address. His smile complimented a gentle demeanor. His intellect enriched by experience. His industry sharpened by danger and fortune. Christopher Bernard Gamparo, who died at the age ...

Corruption in Uganda: a marriage of the public’s need and officialdom’s greed

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 21, 20220 comments

Corruption. Inexhaustible subject of conversation and scholarly publications. The heart of darkness that engulfs humanity. The fall of man, described in the Judeo-Christian scripture, was an act of corruption that turned on a fire that still burns hot in every corner of Planet Earth. ...

Opportunities and challenges for the new Bishop of Kigezi Diocese

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 30, 20220 comments

 The Right Reverend George Bagamuhunda, who has retired from the office of Bishop of Kigezi Diocese, has earned a reputation for promoting income generating and job creating economic development, expansion of diocesan material assets, reconciliation and peace building, and acceleration ...

Sri Lanka’s corrupt dynastic politics and national ruin

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 24, 20220 comments

Sri Lanka, once a land of promise, is now in ruinous self-immolation. Its most powerful ruler, Mahinda Rajapaksa, a close friend of Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa, is discredited by the very people whose adoration once fueled his visions of deity.     Like Uganda, ...

On peaceful resistance and why I speak the truth to Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 9, 20220 comments

 An online newspaper published an article about me last Tuesday, in which the author made false allegations that suggested deliberate disinformation or loss of the struggle with the English language. He was reacting to my column of Tuesday May 3 titled “Tibuhaburwa dynasty ...

Eddie Bisamunyu had a romantic attachment to a bygone Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 5, 20221 comments

 Photo: Right to left: Eddie's father, Eli Nathan Bisamunyu (Uganda) and  John Malecela (Tanzania).   It is more than a month since my dear friend’s sudden death in his home in Kabaare. I remain incredulous that Edward Nobel Bisamunyu, younger than me, and still ...

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