Muniini K. Mulera

Lake Bunyonyi: Clean again, but needs planned development

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 9, 20250 comments

#Bunyonyi #Muhabura #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Kabale

Photo: Evening at Lake Bunyonyi, with the Sun hurrying off to sleep in Congo, as Muhabura watched with regal silence. © Muniini K. Mulera ** The news is good. Lake Bunyonyi has self-cleansed. Its crystal-clear waters are a pleasing sight to behold again. Not as perfect as they ...

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The power behind the brown color on lake Bunyonyi

By Uwayesu Happy. EUgandaSeptember 9, 20250 comments

Uwayesu Happy, Suzhou university of science and Technology Mulangira James, Busitema University Keywords Environmental chemistry,Anothopology,Purification Abstract,Lake Bunyonyi in kigezi region turned its color to brown but as environmental engineers we ...

Bunyonyi Fights Back !

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 3, 20250 comments

#Bunyonyi

Lake Bunyonyi on Wednesday September 3, 2025 Photo sent by Parity Twinomujuni Bunyonyi Fights Back Crystal waters of yore We took for granted before Dirty brown and more Funeral dirges we bore. Our lake reduced to pity Her beauty turned so dirty As ...

Press Statement on Lake Bunyonyi - By the Ministry of Water and Environment, Republic of Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 2, 20251 comments

Photo: Lake Bunyonyi - part of the view from Arcadia Lodges, October 1, 2012 © Muniini K. Mulera Uganda's Ministry of Water and Environment has released an update on Lake Bunyonyi in Kigyezi. The affirms the following key points: There is ...

False reports of a volcanic eruption at Bunyonyi a blot on journalism

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 1, 20250 comments

#Bunyonyi #volcano #browning #brownification #Muhabura #Mugahinga #Sabinyo #Bufumbira #Uganda

First things first. There was no volcanic eruption in or around Lake Bunyonyi last week. There could not have been a silent volcanic eruption in or around Lake Bunyonyi. Claims by “environmental experts”, dutifully reported by The Daily Monitor and NTV Uganda, ...

Rhoda Kalema and Okello Oculi: Africa poorer without them

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda HistoryAugust 4, 20252 comments

#Okello #Oculi #Rhoda #Kalema #Uganda #Nigeria

The death of Professor Okello Oculi in Abuja, Nigeria on Saturday July 26, caused a dark chill that blistered the souls of those who knew him and those who were nourished by his prolific writing and his outstanding scholarship. Dr. Samm Bbuye-Musoke, my friend who shared ...

Uganda’s Burden of Cultural Sin: One – Fingering a National Malady

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaAugust 29, 20250 comments

A Weary and Soulless Country in the Grip of Savagery It can be risky business for anyone to pin a label, point out systematic failures or direct blanket criticism at any national, ethnic, religious or otherwise identifiable group of people. Whoever does so could easily be ...

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

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 25, 20251 comments

#Byabanyagi #Museveni #NRA #Rwamirama

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 ...

Dr. Herman Joseph Musiitwa: an impactful life

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 30, 20241 comments

#Musiitwa

Dr. Herman Joseph Musiitwa Photo © Muniini K. Mulera We mourn a friend and colleague whose death at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, on Friday July 26 has cast a chilly and dark shadow. Dr. Herman Joseph Musiitwa, a senior consultant surgeon in Masaka, was a beloved ...

Depressing Ugandan funeral speeches extolling treatment abroad

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 18, 20250 comments

#Uganda #Health #Medical #Tourism #Beti #Kamya

The deaths of one’s relatives, friends, peers and famous people tend to focus one’s mind on that inescapable fate. One hears comments like “death is on the rampage,” “there are too many deaths these days,” and “we must live as though ...

Musinguzi Garuga: rare breed of a modern Mukiga

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 11, 20250 comments

#Musinguzi #Garuga #Kinkizi #Kanungu #Uganda #Bakiga

My soul, so consumed with sorrowful somberness, is pulled down by a dark force that bereavement throws our way. The ranks of brave fighters for real freedom continue to be pruned by death. So relentless an onslaught that renders one numb and lost in thoughts about one’s journey ...

Did Louis Armstrong, who died 50 years ago today, visit Uganda?

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicJuly 6, 20211 comments

#Jazz #Armstrong #Satchmo

Born in New Orleans on July 4, 1901, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong died in Queens, New York in his sleep on July 6, 1971. He was a giant among the giants of Jazz music. His cornet, trumpet and voice influenced the shape and course of Jazz in a way that very few did. Armstrong’s ...

Corrupt alliance between Ugandan doctors and Indian hospitals hurts patients

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersNovember 6, 20181 comments

#Medical #tourism #Ugandan #doctors #Indian #doctors #Indian #hospitals #medical #ethics

When Dr. Nuwa Masinde Muliro, a senior surgeon in Kampala, referred his patient to what he believed to be a reputable Health Centre in India, he did not expect anything except a consultation report and, hopefully, news of a good outcome. Instead the first communication Dr. Muliro ...

Key events in the history of Kigyezi from 1500 t 1930

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi HistoryOctober 27, 20221 comments

#Kigezi #Kigyez #history #Kahondo #Muhumuza #Ntokibiri #Katuregye #Makobore #Miranda #Musinga #Muhoozi #Kahaya

It is believed, with reliable evidence from studies of pollens, that the area now known as Kigyezi had human settlements at least as far back as 2000 years ago. However, there is no reliable information about our ancestors before about 1500 AD. Likewise, the pre-colonial history ...

Banyarukiga, there is power in unity

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi PoliticsOctober 30, 20221 comments

#Rukiga #Mparo #Muhanga #Bukinda #Kamuheesi #Kamwezi #Kashambya #Rwamucuucu

The advent of Rukiga’s transformation into a district filled me with hope for positive change. I was born in Kabaare, Kigyezi, to a Munyakabaare mother and a Munyakahondo father who went to Mparo to work in 1954. There they settled and we became dual citizens of Ndorwa and Rukiga ...

Maj. Augustine Karugaba and Obote’s most consequential decision

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda HistoryOctober 7, 20193 comments

#Karugaba #Obote #Uganda #Independence #Sandhurst #Sarakikya #Hugh #Stott #Combes #Ibingira

There once lived a man called Karugaba ka Baatoora ba Rubango, better known as Major Augustine ‘Gus’ Karugaba. In my opinion, his story was one of the most consequential in Uganda’s journey from a British colony of promise to a blood-stained sovereign state where ...