Muniini K. Mulera

the CATCHER in the RYE

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 7, 20190 comments

I first read this book in 1977 during my early days of exile. I was introduced to this classic book by Dr. John B. Masembe, my dear friend who was working at Nairobi Hospital. He had an exquisite taste for great literature and we spent many evenings chatting about Holden Caulfield, ...

Democracy: Mencken's thoughts on this incomparably idiotic and amusing system

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksNovember 10, 20160 comments

There once lived an American man called Henry Louis Mencken, one whose writings unfailingly give pleasure and annoyance; challenge received wisdom and expose his own dark views; and reveal a brilliant mind that breathed the English language. Reading Mencken tempts a newspaper columnist ...

COVID-19: Remember the children - By Dr. Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka*

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 30, 20200 comments

#COVID #19 #Sabrina #Kitaka #Uganda #Children

March 30, 2020 The total cases of Covid-19 globally is 697,244 and the total number of deaths is 33,257.The disease started in the Hubei Province of Wuhan in China but has torn through the entire world, with more than 200 countries and territories having seen at least ...

Banyakigyezi (ICOB) to launch COVID-19 response fund

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 30, 20200 comments

#Abanyakigyezi #Abanyakigezi #Banyakigezi #COVID19 #coronavirus #Museveni #ICOB

The new Coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, is an invisible, democratic and non-sectarian disabler and killer. It has, so far, picked out princes and paupers, doctors and doormen, managers and mailmen, prime ministers and prostitutes, the young and restless, the ...

COVID-19 UGANDA: knowledge is power, patriotism now

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 26, 20200 comments

#Coronavirus #COVID19 #Uganda #Museveni

COVID-19: 1. As of today, there is no effective treatment for this virus. Greedy people will try to sell you cures etc. Please remember the lies that were merchandised in the early years of HIV/AIDS - including Nnalongo's "anointed soil" in Masaka; the steroids by self-styled ...

Coronavirus spread versus urban famine: a president's dilemma

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 26, 20200 comments

#Coronavirus #COVID19 #Uganda #Museveni

Fellow Ugandans, I completely understand the mental struggle that many people have with the idea of locking down, even shutting down, our country. Trust me, I am not one who is blind to the realities of our socio-economically challenged country, and the struggles of Mundua, ...

Is Africa prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic?

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 23, 20200 comments

#Coronavirus #COVID19 #Uganda #Aceng #Moriku #ICU #Health #care

Many virus infections have found great partnership with commercial air travel. A sneeze and a sniffle (what President Yoweri Museveni calls “sneezing in”) in China are quickly felt in far off lands. Since the first reported case of COVID-19 on our continent ...

Why I dislike handshakes and hate handkerchiefs

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 16, 20200 comments

#Handshake #handkerchief #BakigaBanyankore #greeting #coronavirus

Out of the darkness, a ray of hope. The coronavirus pandemic, though potentially serious, brings me hope that perhaps humanity may discard two archaic habits that cause me personal pain. First, the handshake. Dirty. Dangerous. For the most part, unnecessary. Supposedly a ritual ...

Random thoughts about fear in Uganda ahead of 2021

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 9, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Tumukunde #fear #Museveni #Mukula

Sunny morning in Toronto, albeit the chill of late Winter discourages a much-desired stroll along the shores of Lake Ontario, the smallest of the five Great Lakes of North America. We content ourselves with bright rays of sunshine streaming into our house. It is not the real ...

Time to ordain female bishops in the Church of Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 2, 20200 comments

#Bishops #Church #of #Uganda #Kaziimba #Paul

We give glory to God for Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu, the new Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, and for the former archbishop, Stanley Ntagali, whom we hope to see continuing his work of evangelism. Archbishop Kaziimba’s to-do-list must be a very ...

Ten Point Program of Uganda's National Resistance Movement (NRM) - 1984

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 24, 20200 comments

#NRM #Ten #Point #Program #Uganda #Museveni

Ten-Point Programme of NRM First published in 1984 by NRM Publications The National Resistance Council of the National Resistance Movement, together with the High Command and Senior Officers of the National Resistance Army (NRA) under the chairmanship of President Yoweri Museveni, ...

Mugisha Muntu's challenge to Museveni about the army

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 24, 20200 comments

#Mugisha #Muntu #Alliance #for #National #ransformation #Alliance #ANT #Uganda #Biraaro #Museveni #Ten #Point #Programme

Mugisha Muntu, National Coordinator, Alliance for National Transformation ****************** Many of the public tributes and reflections at the recent memorial and burial services for Benoni Buta Biraaro, a retired senior officer of the Uganda People’s Defence ...

Benoni Biraaro: epitome of a great army general

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 18, 20200 comments

#Biraaro #Uganda #UPDF #Museveni

In the days gone by, the great poets of Ankole would have already composed ebyevugo (heroic recitations) in praise of Buta bwa Biraaro bya Kagina. Not because of his exploits in the heroic struggle in the jungles of Luwero or his military valor in the post-1986 combat zones inside ...

Rosa Kanakubona Kamujanduzi and the triumph of prayerful patience

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 3, 20201 comments

#Kanakubona #Kamujanduzi #Ankole

On the day of her birth in Igara, Ankole in 1916, the odds that a little girl named Rosa Kanakubona would live into the next century were very low. Available data show that a female’s life expectancy at birth in Canada and the United States of America in 1916 was 60 years ...

PUZZLED BY THIS PRETTY PLACE IN KIGYEZI

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda TourismFebruary 10, 20201 comments

#Kigyezi #Kaharo #Kabaraga #Kabaare #Hotels

As you drive up the hillsides of Kabaraga, on your final approach to Kabaare town, you suddenly come upon a brightly coloured building that invites you to stop and dine. This is The Food Station, a roadside restaurant that is about 5 years old. It is not clear to me whether ...

Daniel Toroitich arap Moi: iconic leader or prince of darkness?

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 10, 20201 comments

#Moi #Kenya #dictatorship #Africa

The death of a person is a sad moment. It reminds us of our mortality and forces us to reflect on life’s meaning. The death of Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, Kenya’s former ruler, has saddened me more deeply than I thought it would. No, not because he has died. At ...