Muniini K. Mulera

Gerald Wilson Big Band: Moment of Truth

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicNovember 29, 20220 comments

#Big #band #Jazz #Gerald #Wilson #Tone #Poet

Gerald Stanley Wilson (1918-2014) was a trumpeter, composer, arranger, educator, and big band leader. Born in Shelby, Mississippi, he spent most of his adult life in Los Angele, California. This record, which was made at the Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles, in August, and ...

Inherited land wrangles in Uganda: a reality check

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 29, 20220 comments

#Land #Uganda #inheritance #wrangles

There is nothing new about inter-personal land wrangles in Uganda. Growing up in Kigyezi in the 1960s, stories of fights over plot boundaries, land ownership, and land inheritance were part of our informal education. In those days, Kigyezi and Bugisu were leading theatres of homicides ...

Paul Ssemogerere’s epitaph: A rebel with hope and perseverance

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 22, 20220 comments

#Ssemogerere #DP #Obote #Museveni #Okello #Lutwa #Uganda

Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere was a rebel. The soft, smiling type, with an easily underestimated resolve. The under-appreciated hero because his conquests did not include blood and human corpses. There was a time when I did not appreciate Ssemogerere’s politics. Why, ...

Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden: Part 3 – The Pearl of Africa’s Crown, a land flowing with milk and honey – Uganda’s legendary potential

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaNovember 19, 20220 comments

Central message: Part 3 briefly sketches what once made Uganda a model developing nation, that was cited as a development success story: an idyllic natural setting; ethnic diversity of inter-ethnic many commonalities; the streak of a cosmopolitan nation; an effective public administration ...

Is Museveni stepping down in 2026?

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 14, 20220 comments

#Museveni #Muhoozi #Kainerugaba #Uganda

Many Ugandan political commentators appear to be convinced that the “presidential succession” game is already in play. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has been anointed the leading candidate. Numerous people, at home and abroad, are falling over each ...

Gayaza High School deserves our financial support

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 7, 20220 comments

#Gayaza #Masembe #Mpanga #Bagaaya #Nsibirwa #Kalema #Kasule #Obote #Mugwanya #Kadama #Kavuma

(Some of the Gayaza girls at the gathering in Kampala on November 5, 2022. Left - right: Jane Nannono Kavuma Kayonga [red top], Barbara Kibaya Kiwanuka, Florence Isabirye Muranga [standing], Rowena Sempa Ndugga, Christina Mugwanya Kadama, and Jennifer Wanyoto Musiime.) ------------------------- The ...

Rukiga District: brief facts and figures

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziOctober 27, 20223 comments

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

District: Rukiga Total Area: 426.3 sq. km. Population: 106,000 people (2021) Males: 51,300 (2021) Females: 54,700 (2021) Male: Female ratio: 0.94:1 Population density: 249/sq. km. Geography: Rukiga is a mountainous boot-shaped wedge in South West Uganda, ...

New prime minister offers hope to Lesotho

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 1, 20220 comments

#Lesotho #Maseru #Matekane

The Kingdom of Lesotho has a new prime minister. Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane was sworn in on Friday October 28, becoming his country’s tenth prime minister since independence from Britain in 1966. Matekane, a 64-year-old businessman, who is said to be the richest person ...

Counting (numbers) in Rukiga/Runyankore

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi CultureOctober 30, 20220 comments

#Okubara #omutwaro #akasiriira #akakeikuru #akakaikuru #akakaira #akahumbi #akatabarwa

Our ancestors had a counting system whose terminology was similar to or shared roots with that of Bantu language nations all over Africa. It appears that there were words for quantities/amounts up to, at most, ten thousand. It is very unlikely that there was an item that needed enumeration ...

Political and administrative structure of Kigyezi Region

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi PoliticsOctober 28, 20220 comments

#Rukiga #Rukungiri #Kanungu #Kisoro #Rubanda #Kabale #Kabaare #Kigezi #Kigyezi

Kigyezi, a colonial construct in 1911, was a single administrative district throughout the colonial period (1911-1962) and the first eighteen years of Uganda's independence (1962). It was then subdivided into two districts in 1974, and then smaller districts in the years that followed. ...

Kigyezi: the land and its people

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziOctober 26, 20220 comments

#Kigyezi #Muhabura #Bunyonyi #Kikuba #Mparo #Rukungiri #Kabale #Kisoro #Kanungu #Rukiga #Rubanda

Region: Kigyezi Districts: Kabaare (Kabale), Kaanungu, Gisoro (Kisoro), Rubanda, Rukiga, Rukungiri. Total Area: 5,098 sq. km. Population: 1.7 million people Map of Uganda Mount Muhabura, Bufumbira (Gisoro), Kigyezi (December 26, 2006) ...

No American, Briton or Ugandan is indispensable

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 24, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Britain #United #Kingdom #USA #America #Trump #Sunak #Obama #FDR #Roosevelt #Kennedy #Churchill #Atlee #Macmillan #Reagan #Thatcher

British politics is in crisis. Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned in disgrace on July 7. His successor, Prime Minister Elizabeth Truss, who took office on September 6, resigned in disgrace on October 20. The fall of the two prime ministers dented Britain’s reputation for ...

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Roots and Herbs

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Roots & Herbs

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicOctober 20, 20220 comments

#Roots #Herbs #Art #Blakey #Jazz #Messengers #Lee #Morgan #Wayne #Shorter #Bobby #Timmons #Walter #Davis #Jr #Jamie #Merritt #Blue #Note #Mastermind #Birdie

Hard Bop, Blues and Soul – all here, in this Lee Morgan Edition of the Messengers that consistently set top-tier records to tape for Blue Note. The title tune is enchanting. One imagines one sitting with a skilled medicine man in Kahondo ka Byamarembo, in ...

Free for All: The best Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers record?

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicOctober 18, 20220 comments

#Art #Blakey #Jazz #Messengers #Wayne #Shorter #Cedar #Walton #Reggie #Workman #Free #for #All #Blue #Note #MMMJ

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Free for All Blue Note – BST 84170 Is this the best Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers? That’s a hard question, of course. However, to my ears, the answer is yes. Well, until I listen to other Blakey and TJM recordings by ...

Freedom is the foundation of America’s ingenuity and success

By Muniini K. MuleraUSAOctober 18, 20220 comments

#USA #America #Liberty #Voyager #1 #Voyager #2 #Bennu #asteroid #comet

America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, is a great country. Its openness about its character and the happenings that fill the news cycles have often created the impression of a dangerous country that is best avoided. The seemingly worsening incidents of ...

Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden: Part 2 - The moral for the Uganda nation of the parable of Salesman Willy Lowman and Speaker Jacob Oulanyah

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaOctober 17, 20220 comments

Central message: Uganda is in a very precipitously dangerous position. Ever since Independence 60 years ago, the key existential threat to Uganda as a nation has been the ill-conceived, selfish, self-centred, corrupt and hapless dreams, plans and actions of the nation’s leaders. ...