Muniini K. Mulera

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 ...

Darkness at Biharwe, Nkore and the mystery of COVID-19

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 14, 20200 comments

#Solar #eclipse #Biharwe #1520 #Nkore #Bunyoro #Nakibinge #Olimi #Ntare

I had planned to be in Uganda this week, to celebrate and learn more about an event that had a major impact on the history of the kingdoms of Bunyoro-Kitara and Nkore 500 years ago. The story is told that in the very early years of the sixteenth century, Omukama ...

COVID-19: WHY ICELAND HAS NOT LOCKED DOWN

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 9, 20200 comments

#COVID #19 #Iceland

The Republic of Iceland, a former colony of Denmark, is a fascinating little country, with one of the most beautiful, cleanest, greenest and safest capital cities in the world. Country area: 103,000 sq. km. (a little less than half the size of the Kingdom of Buganda.) National ...

COVID-19, misinformation epidemic and pandemic of fear

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 6, 20200 comments

#COVID19 #fear

Philly Bongoley Lutaaya has been on my mind lately. Lutaaya, an outstanding and popular Ugandan pop-musician in the 1970s and 1980s, was one of the first prominent people to reveal that he had contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of the acquired immune ...

My Kind of Music: Whistle Stop with Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley et al

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicOctober 28, 20160 comments

Thursday October 27, 2016 It started snowing early this morning. First snow of the season. Cold day outside. After a long day at work, what better way to unwind than listening to KENNY DORHAM (trumpet), in the good company of Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Kenny Drew (piano), Paul Chambers ...

Bud Powell: Genius of the piano - his music lives!

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicSeptember 27, 20160 comments

Happy birthday to all friends who were born on September 27! You share the date with the great genius of Jazz piano music - both as a composer and player. Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was born on September 27, 1924. Bud Powell Sept 27, 1924 - July 31, 1967 By the time of his premature ...

John Coltrane at 90

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicSeptember 23, 20160 comments

John Coltrane would have been 90 years old today. Whereas there have been many great Jazz Saxophone players, to my ears Coltrane is one of the top 5 (the others being Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young and Hank Mobley.) His playing was so uniquely his that it is difficult ...

Thank you for the music Rudy Van Gelder (1924-2016)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicAugust 26, 20160 comments

If, like me, you consider the great Jazz recordings from the 1950s and 60s on Blue Note, Prestige and Impulse labels to be some of the greatest treasures in the creative arts, you should spare a moment and thank the recording engineer who made it possible for us to enjoy the exceptional ...

Beethoven's Piano Concertos

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of MusicMarch 19, 20160 comments

Of all the works that Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote, his five piano concertos are almost certainly the most popular with audiences. Here in Toronto, a Beethoven piano concerto featuring a great soloist partnered with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra is usually sold out weeks ...

Lalo Symphonie Espagnole: timeless beauty of the violin

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Classical MusicAugust 8, 20160 comments

Composer: Edouard Lalo 1823-1892), Frenchman Music: Symphonie Espagnole in D Minor, Op. 21 This is a violin concerto, composed in 1874. A timeless, beautiful work, with a lot of Spanish sounds. Exquisitely sweet when played by the masters. I first heard this work in 1994, on a ...