Muniini K. Mulera

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 ...

Banyakigyezi Clans (Enganda z'Abanyakigyezi)

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 16, 20190 comments

#Clans #Bakiga #Bahororo #Kigyezi #Kigezi #Enganda #Totems

The main nationalities (or ethnic communities) in Kigyezi, a district that was created in 1909 and became officially incorporated in the British Uganda Protectorate in 1911, are the Bafumbira, Banyarwanda, Bahororo, Bakiga and Batwa. Each community is divided into clans and the latter ...

Conflicted personal view of Robert Mugabe

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 9, 20190 comments

#Mugabe #Zimbabwe #Africa

Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s death last week was not surprising. At 95, Zimbabwe’s first ruler had exceeded his allotted time of “three score and ten” by a quarter century. As we read in Psalm 90:10, these extra years were characterized by burdensome ...

Archbishop-elect Kaziimba's first challenge is to say no to State gifts

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 3, 20190 comments

#Church #of #Uganda #Kaziimba #Namirembe

The inspiring story of Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba, the Archbishop-Elect of the Church of Uganda, is the kind that triggers happy feelings and prayerful optimism that the church has chosen very well. Since its founding 142 years ago, the Anglican Church in Uganda has ...

Evelyn Anite: Omerta! You are part of the Mafia

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 26, 20190 comments

#Anite #Mafia #Museveni #NRM #Uganda

Evelyn Anite, Uganda’s Minister of State for Investment and Privatisation, is in a bit of a pickle. To be more culturally correct, she is facing the frightful consequences of putting her finger in the leopard’s anus. Understandably terrified by her predictable ...

Barbara Neogy Lapcek and Uganda’s Nommo Gallery of Art

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 20, 20190 comments

#Barbara #Neogy #Lapcek #Lapcek #Neogy #Nommo #Gallery #Art

The vast majority of humans, if not all of us, appreciate and savour visual art every day. God, the greatest master artist, created an Earth and universe whose visual magnificence is too awesome for words, albeit constantly available to us in our waking hours and in our dreams. God’s ...

Kabaare Town’s recovery a reminder that leadership matters

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziJuly 23, 20190 comments

#Kabaare #Kabale #Naivasha

I write from Naivasha, Kenya, a town I last visited four years ago. My wife and I, together with our friends, are enjoying our stay at the Lake Naivasha Country Club, an 84-year-old hotel that retains an ambiance that would have been familiar to its patrons in the 1930s. ...