Muniini K. Mulera

Apartheid South Africa’s rulers better than terrorist ones north of the Limpopo

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 15, 20210 comments

#de #Klerk #apartheid #Africa #South #Africa #Lesotho

I was saddened by last week’s news of the death of Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa’s former president. My sadness was deepened by his video-recorded “last message”, a deathbed apology, “without qualification” for “the pain and the hurt ...

Someday My Prince Will Come - Miles Davis

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicNovember 13, 20210 comments

#Miles #Davis #Jazz #Someday #my #Prince #Will #Come

One never tires of Some Day My Prince Will Come, a masterful 1961 recording by Milers Davis. This is Miles at his most tender, whistling through his horn, dispensing musical bliss, shielding me from the noise of our schizophrenic world that pollutes our souls. Hank Mobley ...

Rhoda Kalema's story of triumph over tragedy

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksOctober 4, 20211 comments

#Rhoda #Kalema #Uganda

My Life is But a Weaving: An Autobiography by Rhoda Kalema. Nairobi: Moran (E.A) Publishers, 2021. At 92 years of age, Rhoda Nakibuuka Kalema has a story to tell. She successfully uses her 268-page autobiography to summarize a journey that has been mostly in the ...

Who will tell her the stories of her ancestors in her mother tongue?

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda CultureNovember 8, 20210 comments

#Culture #Kigyezi #Kigezi #Rukiga #Tibihika #oral #stories #Mubangizi #Tibaanyendera

I love a good story, told the way my grandmothers and other elders held me captive on many unforgettable evenings during my childhood. Those stories, narrated in Orukiga, my mother-language, were laced with idioms, proverbs, songs and sounds that would quickly transport me to ...

Blowing in from Chicago - Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore

Blowing in from Chicago - Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicNovember 6, 20210 comments

#Clifford #Jordan #John #Gilmore #Jazz #Bebop #Blue #Note #Chicago

Blowing in from Chicago Clifford Jordan – tenor saxophone John Gilmore – tenor saxophone Curly Russell – bass Art Blakey – drums Blue Note BLP 1549 Mono Recorded March 3, 1957 Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder Hackensack, New Jersey Produced by Alfred Lion ...

Florence Lubega and other pioneers: who will tell their story?

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 3, 20210 comments

#Florence #Lubega #Sugra #Visram #Uganda #Parliament #KY #Mbire #Manga #Wesonga #Frances #Akello #UCW #Kalema

Mrs. Florence Alice Lubega, who departed Earth on October 28, just eight days shy of turning 104, may well be the last member of independent Uganda’s first parliament to die. My uncertainty reflects the awfully inadequate documentation of the lives of our immediate post-independence ...

Hope Kivengere finished well

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 25, 20210 comments

#Hope #Kishande #Kivengere #Uganda #Press #secretary #Kigezi #Kabale

Hope Kivengere (August 19, 1949 - October 19, 2021) Eloquent eulogies for Hope Kishande Kivengere, who departed Earth a week ago, have reminded us about who and what she was. She was kind, generous, bright, independent-minded, non-conformist, courageous, patriotic, honest, ...

Museveni on corruption: a tired song in discord

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 19, 20210 comments

#Museveni #corruption #wealth #cows #Uganda

It is rather tempting to ignore President Yoweri T. Museveni’s latest denunciation of corruption in Uganda. After all we have lost count of the president’s numerous speeches against corruption since 1986, the year he captured power with promises of destroying the ...

Transcript of President Yoweri Museveni’s speech on corruption

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 18, 20210 comments

#Museveni #corruption #wealth #cows

Unknown date -? October 2021 Unknown audience TRANSCRIPT – by Muniini K. Mulera President Museveni said: “If I am rich, it is because I worked for everything myself. That’s why I don’t care about anybody. Silina gweneguya, kubanga tewaliwo ...

Kenya’s Charles Njonjo: misunderstood normal gentleman

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 11, 20210 comments

#Njonjo #Kenya #Seretse #Khama

Well, to the right, in fact: Njonjo and Khama in London, late 1940s. ******* The weekend brought a rumour that Charles Mugane Njonjo of Kenya had died. The trigger-happy folks, upon receiving the hoax, hit their keyboards, eager to be the first conveyers of “the news.” Even ...

Think twice before baptizing your child Caleb or Mary

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 5, 20210 comments

#Names #Karwemera #Caleb #Mary #Amon #Zedekiah #Jehoiakim #Opio #Onyango

Omugurusi Festo Karwemera, who died thirteen months ago at the age of 95, has been on my mind. Karwemera, the finest researcher, documenter, author and custodian of the language and traditions of Abanyakigyezi, was one of my best lifelong teachers, a source of knowledge and wisdom ...

Rwakyekoreire Buhano: An outstanding novel in Runyankore By Benedikito K. Mubangizi

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksOctober 4, 20210 comments

#Rwakyekoreire #Buhano #Mubangizi #Runyankore

Rwakyekoreire Buhano – By Benedikito K. Mubangizi, USJMP, 2019 This novel, the first by Benedikito K. Mubangizi, was written in 1971. Originally published as a two-book series, this edition is the first presentation of the full story of the life of a man called Rwakyekoreire ...

Reclaim African identity and culture

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 27, 20210 comments

#African #identity #culture #Uganda

Next week, President Yoweri Museveni will celebrate Uganda’s independence with a speech that will cover familiar ground, extolling his successes since his ascension to power nearly 36 years ago. It is when he turns to the struggle against imperialism that his oratory skills ...

How many citizenships can a Ugandan legally hold?

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 15, 20211 comments

#Uganda #dual #citizenship #constitution

"Someone was picked, he had a Ugandan national ID, he had a Canadian passport, and the passport of another country. So, what is he?" - Marcelino Bwesigye, Asst Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Republic of Uganda, September 14, 2021. https://youtu.be/gXoGKgLuC4A Assistant ...

ELSPETH HUXLEY: A BIOGRAPHY by C. S. Nicholls (Thomas Dunne Books, 2002)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksSeptember 15, 20210 comments

#Elspeth #Huxley #Kenya

Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997) was an Anglo-Kenyan woman whose literary work on colonial Kenya and East Africa stands tall among the many books on the subject. Her books are witty, vividly descriptive of her subjects, and unafraid to say things as she saw them, unworried bout political ...

Kabale University scholarship program needs expansion, not condemnation

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 14, 20210 comments

#Kabale #University #scholarship #poverty

When the Academic Registrar of Kabale University invited applications for the Kabale University Kigezi Region Scholarship, he probably did not expect that it would provoke the ire of some Ugandans. However, that is exactly what it did. The offending part of the announcement ...