Muniini K. Mulera

Academic qualifications not a measure of leadership ability

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 1, 20200 comments

#Kyagulanyi #Bobi #Wine #Mukula #Uganda #leadership

I rolled with laughter when I read a report in the Daily Monitor last week in which a ruling party politician was quoted as having declared: "Someone with a diploma in Music Dance and Drama wants to lead this country called Uganda. This is not a theater." I immediately ...

Choice before Ugandans is not Bobi Wine or Muntu versus Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 24, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #NRM #Obote #Okello #Amin #Muntu #Bobi #Wine #Kyagulanyi

I had decided to stay clear of all comment on the latest pretence of “democratic competition” for Uganda’s presidency. Whereas we have new faces in the cast of those who are challenging Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni, the incumbent president, the script is unchanged. ...

Covid-19, presidential campaigns and a mutual dance of death

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 17, 20200 comments

#COVID #19 #Kyagulanyi #Museveni #Bobby #Wine #Uganda

The most dangerous phase of the new Coronavirus pandemic is upon us. The initial fear of the killer virus has given way to familiarity. Fatigue with preventive measures has triggered reckless longing for pre-pandemic socialization. The human mind quickly adapts to danger and ...

Covid-19 brings opportunities for positive change, even progress

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 5, 20200 comments

#Covid19 #Kigezi #Kigyezi #ICOB #Abanyakigezi

Out of adversity comes innovation. The ugliest experiences offer opportunities for positive change and progress. Even Covid-19 – painful, debilitating, bringer of death – is forcing changes with potential advantages. When the virus reached these shores ...

Franco, Mobutu and the folly of power

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaOctober 26, 20200 comments

#Franco #Luambo #Lwanzo #Makiadi #Congo #Zaire #power

Franco. A single word that needs no elaboration. In the Africa of my youth and young adulthood, Franco was the name of only one man. Mention of the name ignited the stored sounds of his music in one’s brain, and visions of the towering figure that he was. It still does for me. I ...

Posta Uganda reclaims my faith in their services

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 20, 20200 comments

#Posta #Uganda #East #African #Post #Telecommunications #Corporation #EAPTC

I received two paper documents from Uganda last week. The beautiful multiple stamps on each khaki envelope, featuring some of Uganda’s wildlife, and the hand-written sender’s and receiver’s names and addresses triggered warm feelings and smiles as I walked out of ...

Trump, Kenyatta and the autocrats’ invincibility

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 5, 20200 comments

#Trump #Stalin #Kennedy #Brezhnev #Kenyatta #Njonjo #Nkurunziza #YArdua #Bongo #Mao #Zedong

If he had had his way, Donald J. Trump would have concealed the news of his Covid-19. However, his leaky White House having informed a journalist that Hope Hicks, one of his closest aides, had tested positive for the disease, Trump quickly announced his own diagnosis to the world ...

Trump-Biden fight and the 1974 boxing match In Kinshasa

By Muniini K. MuleraUSASeptember 30, 20200 comments

I watched the fight between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. It was nicknamed a debate, presumably because the fighters and their referee were wearing suits. It was a mud fight into which the President of the United States dragged his opponent and their referee. As usual, my ...

Post-Museveni transition should be every Ugandan’s concern

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 29, 20201 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #NRM #Obote #Okello #Amin

Notwithstanding my serious disagreement with much of President Yoweri K. Museveni’s politics, policies and actions, I acknowledge a lot of good that he has done in his 35 years in power. When we look at Museveni’s Uganda and compare it to the Amin-Obote II-Okello ...

Makerere fire and the nakedness of the pot calling the kettle black

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 22, 20200 comments

#Makerere #Kampala #Janet #Museveni #Stockholm #syndrome #Fire #Nawangwe

Naked. That is the depressing image in my mind as I think of Makerere University Main Hall, desecrated by a force that torched the magnificent 79-year-old building this past weekend, leaving it physically headless and its innards gutted. In a matter of hours, the iconic building was ...

Kampala on fire! - from the archives

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 21, 20200 comments

#Kampala #Fire

Here is a letter I wrote to my Kampala Friend 4 years ago: 10 MAY 2016 The Monitor (Kampala) OPINION By Muniini K. Mulera Dear Tingasiga, Quick! Stop reading now. Put the paper down. Look out the window. There is a huge fire burning in the ...

Kabaare Stadium and some of Uganda’s forgotten heroes

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 14, 20200 comments

Kabaare Stadium, located in the centre of town, is on my mind. For the most part, its perimeter wall, built in 1957, remains strong. However, to one who remembers that stadium as it was in the 1960s, looking at it now assaults one’s visual health and emotions. The ...

NRM Salections, not elections, and the arrogance of power

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 8, 20200 comments

#NRM #Uganda #Museveni #Rukuutana #Rusheenyi #Ntungamo #Sembabule #Nyabushozi #Bukanga

First things first. Uganda’s National Resistance Movement has completed its decades-long metamorphosis into a National Resistance Market (NRM). The ruler’s subjects have votes for sale. Candidates present themselves for a pretend election. Loaded with plenty of cash, ...

Muhabura smiles

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 2, 20200 comments

#Muhabura #Sebahire #Karwemera #Kigyezi #Kigezi #Muganza

Muhabura, The Guide Woke up this morning Shed her clothes bare Bids him welcome home Festo Karwemera To the land of his ancestors. She looks down South And winks at the past Empimbi za Muganza Where his revered ancestors Called home the other day A few ...

Festo Karwemera was among the best of the great generation

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 1, 20200 comments

#Karwemera #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Muranga

Photo: Omugurusi Festo Karwemera on January 8, 2020 Kigyezi, the land of my birth and people, shivers in the darkness of an orphan, bereft of words that adequately express the depth of pain that weighs upon us. Our leader and guide, Omugurusi Festo Karwemera Mwene ...

Covid-19 and Ugandans’ death wish

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 24, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Coronavirus #Covid19

Death has a way of focusing us on survival. We make the necessary sacrifices. We take precautions. We promise to change our behaviours. We set partisan and other differences aside. It is a life and death fight. So, we attack the new enemy together. That was the case in Uganda. ...