Muniini K. Mulera

Monique Nkakaire Mugisha: resilience in the face of adversity

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 14, 20220 comments

A beautiful Ugandan was buried in Surrey, Greater Vancouver, Canada this past weekend. The images and sounds from the funeral and burial ceremonies for Monique Mbabazi Nkakaire-Mugisha, who died on March 3, 2022, symbolized, and affirmed her belief in the oneness of humanity. ...

Women empowerment good for marital and family stability

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 8, 20221 comments

#Ninsiima #Murembe #Neema #Tudyazayo #Natukunda #women #empowerment #Kigezi #Kigyezi

Roundtable: Left to right: Evelyne Ninsiima, Clezanta Natukunda, Francine Tudyazayo, Clementia Murembe Neema & Prossy Nyeitera (host, Voice of Kigezi 89.5 FM) A changing climate and environmental degradation are, to a large extent, a result of human ignorance, ...

Kigezi High School@100: celebrate forgotten founders and builders

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi EducationMarch 2, 20220 comments

#KHS #Kigezi #Kigyezi

Kigezi High School turned 100 this month. The centenary celebrations are honouring the famous people whose journeys passed through that school. Those alive today, and especially the politicians, dominate the names celebrated in speech, in writing and, perhaps, in song. Wealthy businesspersons ...

Gen. Jeje Odongo’s undiplomatic moment

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 21, 20220 comments

#Jeje #Odongo #Uganda #Ursula #von #der #Leyen #Macron #EU #AU

Gen. Abubaker Jeje Odongo, Uganda’s minister of foreign affairs, has made international headlines that our country does not need. His undiplomatic behaviour at the Sixth European Union-African Union Summit Meeting in Brussels, Belgium on February 17-18, was a self-inflicted ...

Is Museveni’s life more important than that of a peasant farmer?

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 14, 20220 comments

#Museveni #Oulanyah #Uganda #Mulago

Uganda Parliament Speaker Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah’s reported evacuation to Seattle, USA for medical treatment has triggered a predictable backlash. The reported payment of $500,000 to Uganda Airlines to fly him to America has been the focus of the angry reaction from a ...

Do not be duped by patronage appointments

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 8, 20220 comments

#Patronage #meritocracy #Uganda #Museveni #Besigye #Mateke

One of the great myths that have taken hold in Uganda is that high profile government appointments benefit the communities of the appointees’ origins. People react to the appointment of an ethnic kinsman with joy and declarations that God has remembered them. Religious ...

Mutebile was a worthy successor to Kigyezi’s selfless leaders

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 1, 20220 comments

#Mutebile #Tumusiime #Ruhakana #Rugunda #Kabale #Kabaare #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Uganda

Photo: (Front left) Lawrence Kiondo, Kigyezi District Education Officer; John Bikangaga, Rutakirwa Engage ya Kigyezi (second right); Rev. Abraham Zaaribugire (with clerical collar), Ishmael Bamwangiraki, Headmaster (centre, sunglasses); and other leaders at Karukaata ...

Mr. Enoch Lugimbirwa: now in glory, after a life well lived for Christ

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 25, 20220 comments

#Lugimbirwa #Rugimbirwa #Ruharo

We have lost another wonderful elder, less than three weeks after the death of his wife. Omwami Enoch Lugimbirwa of Ruharo, Mburara died at about 1:30 AM EST on Tuesday January 25, 2022. He was 101 years old. When I last shared time with Mr. Lugimbirwa in ...

Enoch Lugimbirwa: saved to serve.

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMarch 11, 20181 comments

It was a great honour to share time with Mr. Enoch Lugimbirwa in Mburara, Nkore in January this year. A very dear brother in Christ, MR. Lugimbirwa is a refined gentleman whose warm smile and laughter reflect his great love for humanity. Mr. Lugimbirwa, who has lived and served ...

Tumusiime Mutebile was the real deal

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 24, 20220 comments

#Mutebile #Tumusiime #Ruhakana #Rugunda #Kabale #Kabaare #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Uganda

His name was Emmanuel Kirenga Baryabota Tumusiime Mutebile. Some called him The Governor. Others called him Professor. And others called him Doctor. I called him Tumusiime. And he always answered to that name, one I called him when I became pulled into his orbit in 1965 or 1966. Kabaare, ...

Bishop James Ssebagala wrong about pregnant schoolgirls

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 18, 20220 comments

#Pregnancy #teenager #adolescence #Ssebagala

“Block pregnant girls from attending school, bishop tells teachers.” This headline, in the Daily Monitor of Monday January 10, 2022, was quite startling. Anglican Bishop James Ssebagala of Mukono was reported to have declared war against pregnant and breastfeeding ...

Law School: My Unfulfilled Dream

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 2, 20182 comments

#law #lawyer #unfulfilled #dream #law #school

I love law, as a profession. When I was an O-level (high school) student, I decided that I would become a lawyer. No, I had no clue what it entailed. I just wanted to be like John Wycliffe Rutagyemwa Kazoora. He was the lawyer. His was a household name in my neck of the ...

Dizzy Reece, the great, underrated trumpeter, turned 91 today

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicJanuary 5, 20220 comments

#Dizzy #Reece #Jazz #Trumpet

To celebrate Dizzy Reece’s birthday today, I have listened to Star Bright and Soundin’ Off, two of his recordings on the Blue Note Label that are my kind of music. At 91, Dizzy Reece is one of a tiny number of surviving great musicians from the Golden Age ...

Njonjo and Tutu: quiet departure ends an era

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 4, 20220 comments

#Njonjo #Tutu #Kenya

Charles Mugane Njonjo. Desmond Mpilo Tutu. Different in many ways. Similar in others. Blessed with long and impactful lives, one a centenarian, the other a nonagenarian. One a secular leader, proud of his African heritage, who helped steer independent Kenya through its wobbly infancy. The ...

Freddie Redd Quintet’s Shades of Redd: my kind of desert island music

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicJanuary 1, 20220 comments

#Freddie #Redd #Blue #Note #Jazz

Freddie Redd Quintet: Shades of Redd Blue Note BLP 4045 Recorded August 13, 1960, Mono Recording Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder Released May 1961 Musicians: Freddie Redd – piano Jackie McLean – alto saxophone Tina Brooks – tenor saxophone Paul Chambers – ...

J. R. Monterose: the best tenor saxophonist you never heard

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicDecember 31, 20210 comments

#Monterose #Jazz

My first encounter with J. R. Monterose was jaw-dropping. That was thirty years ago. Listening to him today is still jaw dropping. Bebop/hard bop, played by the masters in their young years. The rhythm section of Horace Silver (piano), Wilber Ware (bass) and “Philly” Joe ...