Muniini K. Mulera

Musinguzi Garuga: rare breed of a modern Mukiga

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 11, 20250 comments

#Musinguzi #Garuga #Kinkizi #Kanungu #Uganda #Bakiga

My soul, so consumed with sorrowful somberness, is pulled down by a dark force that bereavement throws our way. The ranks of brave fighters for real freedom continue to be pruned by death. So relentless an onslaught that renders one numb and lost in thoughts about one’s journey ...

Did Louis Armstrong, who died 50 years ago today, visit Uganda?

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicJuly 6, 20211 comments

#Jazz #Armstrong #Satchmo

Born in New Orleans on July 4, 1901, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong died in Queens, New York in his sleep on July 6, 1971. He was a giant among the giants of Jazz music. His cornet, trumpet and voice influenced the shape and course of Jazz in a way that very few did. Armstrong’s ...

Corrupt alliance between Ugandan doctors and Indian hospitals hurts patients

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersNovember 6, 20181 comments

#Medical #tourism #Ugandan #doctors #Indian #doctors #Indian #hospitals #medical #ethics

When Dr. Nuwa Masinde Muliro, a senior surgeon in Kampala, referred his patient to what he believed to be a reputable Health Centre in India, he did not expect anything except a consultation report and, hopefully, news of a good outcome. Instead the first communication Dr. Muliro ...

Key events in the history of Kigyezi from 1500 t 1930

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi HistoryOctober 27, 20221 comments

#Kigezi #Kigyez #history #Kahondo #Muhumuza #Ntokibiri #Katuregye #Makobore #Miranda #Musinga #Muhoozi #Kahaya

It is believed, with reliable evidence from studies of pollens, that the area now known as Kigyezi had human settlements at least as far back as 2000 years ago. However, there is no reliable information about our ancestors before about 1500 AD. Likewise, the pre-colonial history ...

Banyarukiga, there is power in unity

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi PoliticsOctober 30, 20221 comments

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

The advent of Rukiga’s transformation into a district filled me with hope for positive change. I was born in Kabaare, Kigyezi, to a Munyakabaare mother and a Munyakahondo father who went to Mparo to work in 1954. There they settled and we became dual citizens of Ndorwa and Rukiga ...

Maj. Augustine Karugaba and Obote’s most consequential decision

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda HistoryOctober 7, 20193 comments

#Karugaba #Obote #Uganda #Independence #Sandhurst #Sarakikya #Hugh #Stott #Combes #Ibingira

There once lived a man called Karugaba ka Baatoora ba Rubango, better known as Major Augustine ‘Gus’ Karugaba. In my opinion, his story was one of the most consequential in Uganda’s journey from a British colony of promise to a blood-stained sovereign state where ...

Money, Waragi, intimidation, and NRM’s democracy

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 28, 20250 comments

#Uganda #NRM #Africa #Boateng

In his excellent commentary published in the May 15 edition of Business and Financial Times, an Accra newspaper, Edward Boateng spoke a painful truth about our failure to maintain and grow functional institutions, organisations, and services that Africa inherited from its colonial ...

Foibe Biteete Rugumayo (1937-2025): a Christian woman of class and honour.

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 21, 20251 comments

#Foibe #Phoebe #Phebe #Biteete #Rugumayo #Kigezi

Photo: Phoebe Biteete Rugumayo (middle) with visitors at her home in Fort Portal on January 23, 2018. ******* I feel under-qualified to write about Foibe Biteete Rugumayo, whose death on the morning of July 9, marked the earthly end of my teacher, mentor, and role model that ...

Mutaagas’ murder and Diasporans’ fear of home

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 14, 20250 comments

#Mutaaga

David Baagala Mutaaga and Deborah Naizuwa Mutaaga had looked forward to a happy and enjoyable golden age of retirement in Uganda. After four decades away from home, during which they had worked very hard in Switzerland, they moved into their lovely home in Entebbe following ...

Why support a particular candidate for parliament?

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 7, 20250 comments

#Democracy #Uganda

When the National Resistance Movement (NRM), Uganda’s ruling political party, completes its primary election of parliamentary candidates next week, we shall be able to critically evaluate those who seek to represent us in our respective constituencies. Four constituencies ...

Where do Uganda’s parliamentary candidates get money to buy votes?

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJune 30, 20250 comments

#Uganda #Kenya #Democracy #Elections

It is election campaign season in Uganda. Thousands hope to sit in the next parliament. Besides ten army MPs, over 500 will be declared elected as constituency MPs, women representatives, and special interest group representatives. To be among this privileged club is so ...

Thank you, Mr. Trump

By Muniini K. MuleraUSANovember 9, 20201 comments

#Trump #Biden #USA

Notwithstanding the damage that Donald John Trump has done to the United States in just four years, he deserves our gratitude for exposing some truths that had been buried underneath the veneer of a progressive nation that President Ronald Reagan had hoped would become “a shining ...

Festo Karwemera: a productive life, a great legacy

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziAugust 17, 20201 comments

#Karwemera #Kigyezi #Kigezi #Kigezi #High #School

To have a brilliant mind is a blessing. To put that mind to work - teaching students, supervising schools, carrying out extensive research and publishing reference books on your chosen subject – is a priceless legacy. To have that mind in excellent shape in your tenth decade ...

Father’s Day should be about one’s father, not all fathers.

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 17, 20251 comments

#Kisigo #Mulera #Fathers #Day

Photo: Omugurusi Ezera Kisigo Mulera @ 94 years on January 1, 2011 People in many parts of the world celebrated “Father’s Day” on Sunday June 15. Others celebrate it on other dates throughout the year. As usual, it was my granddaughter Kenyangye who reminded ...

Clans and totems of Banyankore (Enganda n'Emiziro y'Abanyankore)

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziJanuary 2, 20194 comments

The Banyankore are grouped into at least 131 clans (enganda). However, these clans are grouped according to 4 (four) common roots (ebibunu or ebisintsi bina). These roots are: Abahinda (16 clans) Abagahe (43 clans) Abashambo (56 clans) Abaishikatwa (16 clans) Whereas ...

Magical genius of Erinasani Tumwesigye of Budo

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 9, 20252 comments

#Tumwesigye #Magician #Buda #Butobere #Mwesigwa

A few weeks after I started senior one at King’s College Budo in 1967, three young men from Kigyezi joined the school to start their A-level education. James Ndagijimana Birihanze of Kabaare, Sam Ngirabakunzi of Kisoro, and Erinasani Tumwesigye wa Bampabura of Rubaya, Ndorwa were ...