Muniini K. Mulera

Pierre Nkurunziza’s fatal attraction to corrupted “Christianity” and power

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 16, 20200 comments

#Nkurunziza #Burundi #COVID19 #Power #Christianity

The autocratic, manipulative and bloody rule of President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi must not cloud our obuntu (civilized humaneness). A human being is dead. At a young age. Now forever lost to his wife and family. We have all been there. The death of a loved one is ...

Rwamatego, Kanyonza and stories of a bull, blood and treachery - By Davis Ndyomugabe

By Holiness Edimandi ByomuhangiUgandaJune 12, 20201 comments

#Congo #Belgians #Colonialism #Rwamatego #Kanyonza

Whenever the story or the tale of the Belgian brutality in the Congo is told, it would appear to the world that it is only the people what now comprises the Democratic Republic of the Congo that are concerned. The short reply is that the Belgian leeches brutality extended as far ...

The future of music and sound reproduction

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 14, 20200 comments

#Gramophone #audio #sound #reproduction #music

It is an age-old question: Short of attending a live concert, how much do you have to pay to hear the “absolute sound” – or the nearest thing? My parents’ generation was awed by the gramophone. One of the popular ones in Uganda was a black box, resembling ...

Racism not an American monopoly

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 8, 20202 comments

#Racism #tribalism #Canada #USA #Uganda #Africa

The death of George Floyd, an African-American who was murdered by a racist European-American policeman, has brought to the fore the evil culture that is the daily experience of numerous people. The world’s eyes are currently focused on the United States, and for good reasons. ...

My cousin’s preventable death and the need to rethink national priorities

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 1, 20200 comments

#Tibareijukire #Kahondo #hypertension #stroke #Uganda

My paternal cousin was buried in Kahondo ka Byamarembo this past Saturday, the day of her death from a devastating stroke. Her name was Tibareijukire ba Kakitaahi kya Butamanya bwa Nyakashaija ka Ruhuuma rwa Mugasha wa Byamarembo. Born in 1941 to Kyakwera and Kakitaahi, ...

WHY AFRICA MUST PARTICIPATE IN THE QUEST FOR A SUCCESSFUL COVID19 CANDIDATE VACCINE?

By Talibita MosesUgandaMay 27, 20200 comments

The National Local Content Bill, 2019, tabled before Parliamentary Finance Committee in 2019 by Kassanda North MP Patrick Nsamba, seeking to impose local content obligations on persons using public money or natural resources or carrying out activities requiring a license, to ...

UGANDA: Tax Tobacco Companies to Fund Tobacco Control Programs

By Talibita MosesUgandaMay 25, 20201 comments

#Tobacco

This 31st of May 2020, Uganda joins the World Health Organisation (WHO) to celebrate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) under the theme “Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use’’. While the WNTD marks 33 years, Uganda’s ...

Kenyatta, Kumar and the Nytil security guard

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 25, 20201 comments

#Kenyatta #Kumar #Muyomba #Nytil #COVID19 #in #Uganda

The Saturday Monitor brought news of Mr. George Muyomba, a security guard at Nyanza Textile Industries Limited (Nytil) in Jinja, who was fired because he did his job. According to the story, on May 6 Muyomba denied Mr. Vinay Kumar access to the Nytil premises because ...

Museveni playing parliament with world class footballer’s finesse

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 18, 20200 comments

#Museveni #Uganda #parliament #Kadaga #corruption

It is the successor to HIV/AIDS. No, not as a human disease or its impact on the affected individuals and their families. COVID-19 is the successor to HIV/AIDS as a source of lucrative cashflows to the well-connected and the charlatans who shed their consciences so long ago that they ...

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A Journey through East Africa by Elspeth Huxley (1948)

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 14, 20200 comments

#Elspeth #Huxley #Sorcerers #Apprentice #Colonial #East #Africa #Kenya #Uganda #Tanganyika #Zanzibar

Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997), perhaps best known for The Flame Trees of Thika, authored more than 40 books, among them this first-rate travel journal that beautifully paints an image of a colonial East Africa at a crossroads. Between February and June of 1947, Huxley, a long-term ...

Forward to Independence: Memoirs by Fitz de Souza of Kenya

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksMay 13, 20200 comments

#Ditz #de #Souza #Kenya #Pio #Gama #Pinto #Kenyatta

Fitzval Remedios Santana Neville de Souza was a Kenyan, born in Goa, India, raised in Zanzibar, called to the Bar in London and with a lifetime of outstanding accomplishments, mostly in Kenya. One of the defence lawyers for the Kapenguria Six, including Jomo Kenyatta, ...

Edward Lee Morgan (1938-1972): lee-way

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicMay 12, 20200 comments

#Lee #Morgan #Jazz #Hard #Bop #trumpet

To my ears, Edward Lee Morgan was the best of the best trumpeters in the Hard Bop idiom.His very premature death, gunned down by his spouse while he was at work at Slug's Saloon, a club in New York City, ended a very brief but brilliant career of a young man that had enjoyed great ...

Prevent destructive floods with good stewardship of God’s Earth

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 11, 20200 comments

#Landslides #Floods #Environment #Uganda #East #Africa #Lake #Victoria #Nalubaale #Kampala

My heart goes out to those whose lives and possessions have been disrupted by the swollen rivers and lakes of East Africa. Special condolences to those whose relatives have perished in the floods. Coming in the midst of the new Coronavirus pandemic, the pain of disruption is magnified ...

Is Kadaga pursuing a kamikaze strategy with predictable results?

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 4, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #Kadaga #Parliament #Mbabazi

Rebecca Kadaga, the speaker of the Ugandan parliament, who has been engaged in a battle for political survival for several years, has inexplicably adopted an apparent kamikaze strategy whose results we can reasonably predict. Prior to the last presidential elections, ...

US$2.6 million loot by Ugandan MPs is grand political corruption

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 27, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Parliament #Corruption #COVID19 #Kadaga

In a Low Income Country, twenty million shillings (US$5,250) is a very large amount of money. This is the latest loot that nearly each Ugandan MP has grabbed from the public kitty. With the exception of a handful with a healthy conscience, all the legislators have been united in this ...

Africans should respond to Chinese racism with their pockets

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 20, 20200 comments

#Racism #China #Guangzhou #Africa #COVID19

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the truth of anti-African racism in China that had been overshadowed for years by the hyperactive business dealings between that country and our continent. China’s long-reported racist character came to the fore as the ...