Muniini K. Mulera

We live in a highly competitive world - By Dr. Jane Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 30, 20190 comments

#Old #education #new #education #Uganda #education #Nannono

In all our daily interactions, we are knowingly or unknowingly competing with others. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines ‘competitive’ as being inclined, desiring or suited to compete. Being competitive is inborn: siblings compete for food at the table ...

Response to Janet Museveni: Did you speak as First Lady, Minister of Education, Pastor or Grandma? - By Andrew Karamagi

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 30, 20190 comments

#Janet #Museveni #Makerere #Strikes #Andrew #Karamagi

Dear “Maama”, To begin with, I have a mother, just like millions of other Ugandans. This is both a statement of fact and a biological necessity. Even though I am one of those who cannot, for a number of reasons, refer to you as Maama, I am of the firm view ...

Corruption behind the Makerere student strike - By Janet K. Museveni, Ugandan Minister of Education

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 30, 20190 comments

#Corruption #in #Uganda #Janet #Museveni #Makerere #University #Student #strike

(Photo of Mrs Janet Museveni by State House, Uganda) To the Ugandan Children who Call me Maama by Choice, Today, I would like to discuss the topic of corruption with you. The Oxford English Dictionary defines corruption as the dishonest or illegal behavior especially ...

In praise of the latest Scramble for Africa

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 28, 20190 comments

#Scramble #for #Africa #RussiaAfrica #Summit

A group photograph of 43 African rulers (and a few leaders) who met with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, at what was dubbed the “Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum,” tells the tragic story of our mentality of dependency and learnt weakness. The custodians of our continent’s ...

Universities in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 26, 20190 comments

#Universities #Uganda #Makerere #Kyambogo #Mbarara #Kumi #Mukono #Ndejje #Uganda #Martyrs #UCU #Gulu #Muni #Soroti #Nkumba

Universities in Uganda Date: Saturday October 26, 2019 Source: Uganda National Council for Higher Education Public Universities: Busitema, Tororo, Bukedi Gulu, Acholi Kabale, Kabaare, Kigyezi Kyambogo, Kampala Lira, Lango Makerere, Kampala ...

Gun violence: when does the madness end?

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 21, 20190 comments

#Gun #violence #Uganda #Kimumwe #Nduhuura

Photo: Maj. Patrick Balati Kimumwe, Uganda Army (1965-1977) The year is 1974. I have gone to visit my sister, a student at the National Teachers College, Kyambogo, which is what the place is called before it becomes a university. Before I take my leave to taxi it ...

Shortcut journalism and Akorimo Kanuti’s fiction about Uganda’s Independence

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda HistoryOctober 14, 20190 comments

#Akorimo #Kanuti #Uganda #Independence #Uganda #flag #Obote #Amin #Iain #MacLeod #Walter #Coutts #truth #in #journalism

The New Vision, a Kampala English daily newspaper, carried a story on October 8, recycling claims by Maj. Akorimo Kanuti, a retired Uganda Army officer, about his roles at Independence 57 years ago. These claims have been recycled over the years by New Vision, Daily Monitor ...

Uganda: Who is the true patriot?

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 11, 20190 comments

#Patriotism #Seezi #Cheeye #Mukombe #Mpambara #Museveni #Kategaya

Admirers of particular leaders or rulers demand that we blindly praise their heroes. To criticize their hero, whether in life or in death, is to invite the wrath of those who prefer that history be edited to reflect an image of a perfect being, not a fallible one. Deify him, don't ...

Charles Njonjo’s shining moment in the exercise of power in Nairobi

By Muniini K. MuleraKenya Kenya PoliticsOctober 10, 20190 comments

#Njonjo #Moi #Kenyatta #Kenya

As we prepare to celebrate Charles Mugane Njonjo’s 100th birthday on January 23, 2020, we shall be sharing some of his most remarkable exploits during his 15 years as one of the most powerful and influential Kenyans and, perhaps, Africans. To me the high point ...

Maj. Augustine Karugaba and Obote’s most consequential decision

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda HistoryOctober 7, 20190 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 ...

Uganda@57: Change political leadership and culture

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda PoliticsOctober 1, 20190 comments

#Uganda #independence #Museveni #politics #leadership

Independent Uganda turns 57 next week. As usual, I have been scouring the newspaper reports from the critical period of 1961-1963. A news report by the Chicago Daily News Service, filed from Nairobi on March 15, 1962 caught my eye. Under the headline “Politics Is The Tail ...

The Karagwe Kingdom: A History of the Banyambo of Northwest Tanzania c. 1400-1915. By Israel K. Katoke

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 25, 20190 comments

#Karagwe #Great #Lakes #States #of #Africa #Interlustrine #Kingdoms #Katoke #Rumanyika #Ruhinda #Ntare

The Karagwe Kingdom: A History of the Banyambo of Northwest Tanzania c. 1400-1915. By Israel K. Katoke. Kampala: Fountain Publishers Edition, 2018. Pp. xvii, 206. UGX 20,000/= in Uganda. The title of this book is misleading. This is not a history of the Banyambo. It is the ...

Museveni, Kayihura free to invest anywhere they want

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 23, 20190 comments

#Museveni #Kayihura #Uganda #Foreign #Investment #Claire #Short

I enjoyed reading President Yoweri K. Museveni’s response to the American government’s sanctions against Kale Kayihura. I agree with him that banning a non-American from entering the United States is not a matter of life and death. Whereas I was disappointed that, ...

A HISTORY OF KIGEZI IN SOUTH-WEST UGANDA edited by Donald Denoon: The National Trust, Kampala 1972 pp 302

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 22, 20190 comments

#Kigezi #Kigyezi #Denoon #Katuregye

I was very pleased to learn recently that this interesting book has been re-printed and is available in bookshops in Uganda. Until now, the first and only edition was very hard to find, even in used bookstores online. That it is now available to younger generations is most welcome ...

American sanctions against Kale Kayihura: Why him? Why now?

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 16, 20190 comments

#Sanctions #Kayihura #Uganda #Museveni

The news that the United States Government had sanctioned Kale Kayihura, the former Inspector General of the Ugandan Police Force, for serious human rights abuses and alleged involvement in corruption, left me greatly puzzled. No, I was not surprised that the Americans ...

Banyankore Clans (Enganda z'Abanyankore)

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 16, 20190 comments

#Clans #Enganda #Abanyankore #Nkore #Ankole #Totems #Bahororo #Bahima #Banyankore

Whereas Banyakigyezi and Banyankore communities are no longer organized according to clans, knowledge of one's clan, totem and taboos is important for (a) one's identity and (b) avoidance of consanguineous marriage. The taboo against intra-clan marriage is informed by a ...