Muniini K. Mulera

Benoni Biraaro: epitome of a great army general

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 18, 20200 comments

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 ...

Fire engulfs Trinity Bus from Rwanda to Kampala

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 10, 20200 comments

#Bus #fire #Uganda #Rwanda

I have just been informed moments ago by an eyewitness that a TRINITY bus from Rwanda to Kampala has caught fire somewhere between Masaka and Mpigi. The person who sent me this video said that the fire extinguisher did not work. Praise God everyone seems to have got off the bus and ...

Thank you for standing with us in our time of loss

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 1, 20201 comments

#Mulera

THANK YOU, FRIENDS OF MY FAMILY It is nearly three months since the body of my father, Omugurusi Ezra Kisigo Mulera, gently drifted into eternal sleep. I write to thank you for standing with me and my family, at what is easily one of the most difficult moments ...

Museveni’s attention to road safety might make a difference

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 28, 20200 comments

#Traffic #roads #Uganda

Photo: Risk-taking passengers on Kitante Road, Kampala ignore basic rules of physics. Photo by Muniini K. Mulera, January 2020) ****************** As expected, the road carnage in Uganda continued last week, with five people killed when their over-speeding taxi lost control after ...

Nicole Ahuumuza Rubondo: a life cut short on East Africa’s worst killer roads

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 20, 20200 comments

#Rubondo #road #traffic #accidents #Uganda

The horror of very premature and sudden death struck a young girl this past weekend. Nicole Ahuumuza Rubondo, the daughter of Ernest and Alice Rubondo, was killed in a motor accident on Saturday near Fort Portal, Toro. She was only 16 and had been looking forward to her ...

Museveni: Follow great threat, not great trek, with real trek

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 20, 20200 comments

#Museveni #great #trek #life #presidency

Yoweri Museveni’s great trek down memory lane last week was about the future, not the past. His future, not that of his subjects. The president, not one to do things fwaaa, was sending a barely veiled message to those with illusions of taking power ...

Bad personal year eased by great music and dance

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 20, 20200 comments

#2019 #Makerere #University #St #Augustine #Chapel #St #Francis #Chapel

One searches in vain for a phrase that accurately describes the year 2019. The Bakiga would call it omwaka mubi (bad year). Kiswahili speakers would call it mwaka wa huzuni. Latin speakers would call it annus horribilis. None of these quite describes a year of great personal ...

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Why Kigyezi lags behind most of Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 3, 20191 comments

My father’s death has refocused my mind on the brevity of life and its ultimate meaninglessness. One hundred years-plus, yet so brief a sojourn in time. While he lived, Omugurusi Ezra Kisigo Mulera was a larger than life presence; a huge tree that gave me life and shade; a mountain ...

Museveni walk against corruption a mockery of its victims

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 10, 20190 comments

#Museveni #corruption #uganda

Last week’s presidential walk against corruption was a cynical manipulation of its victims. It was a deceitful dance of the insatiable gourmand before digging deeper into the national cake. It was the futile effort of the sorcerer’s apprentice long after defeat by ...

Program for the Thanksgiving Service and Celebration of the life of Omugurusi Ezra Kisigo Mulera (1917-2019)

Program for the Thanksgiving Service & Celebration of the life of Omugurusi Ezra Kisigo Mulera (1917-2019)

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 13, 20191 comments

Date: Thursday November 21, 2019 Time: 09:30 A.M.- 12:00 NOON Venue: All Saints’ Cathedral, Lugard Road, Nakasero, Kampala, Uganda Presiding Minister: Bishop Zac Niringiye Date: Saturday November 23, 2019 Time: 11:00 A.M.- 2:00 PM (Burial) Venue: Owa Mulera, Kiyogoore, ...

Void left by my father’s death filled with joyful thanksgiving

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 11, 20191 comments

#Kisigo #Mulera #Muniini #Mulera #Kahondo #Rukooko #Nyamijumbi #Keiramibwa #Kigezi #High #School #Ezekiel #Balaba #Semu #Ndimbirwe

My father died last week. Tuesday November 5, 2019 has joined a list of dreadful dates whose memory will bring sadness of loss and the unfulfillable longing for another glimpse of a loved one. Yes, he had long run out of steam and had been in steady retreat for several years. The ...

Janet Museveni: Obey God, hear your people’s cry and rebel against injustice

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 4, 20190 comments

#Janet #Museveni #Makerere #strike #Peaceful #resistance #Christianity #and #disobedience

Janet Museveni, Uganda’s minister of education and wife of the president, wrote an impassioned letter last week in response to the student strike at Makerere University. In her letter, Janet focused on corruption among the students, including alleged use of paid professional ...