Muniini K. Mulera

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. ...

Uganda's spectacular beauty and the ICOB Convention in the USA

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi TourismJuly 16, 20190 comments

#Kigezi #Kigyezi #Muhabura #Mugahinga #Sabyinyo #Bisoke #Karisimbi #Mikeno #Mikyeno #Nyamuragira #Nyiragongo #Neogy #Lapcek #Tourism #Uganda

(Photo: Ibirunga across Lake Mutanda © Muniini K. Mulera) I write from Kabaare, the town of my childhood and early youth, which continues to be misspelt as “Kabale,” a meaningless word that was imposed by this area’s colonial rulers a little over a century ...

Lt. Tom Taremwa wa Mutembeya: a brave and free spirit who did things his way

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 18, 20190 comments

#Tom #Taremwa

Born: August 10, 1965 Died: June 9, 2019 My friend was buried in Rutooma Kashaari, Nkore on Saturday. Lt. Thomson Taremwa wa Mutembeya, a veteran of the NRA war in the Luweero Triangle who served as a soldier till the end, lost the battle against an enemy that has been pruning ...

Uganda's Indispensable President

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 14, 20190 comments

President Yoweri Museveni’s State of the Union Address last week revealed both what was right and what was wrong with our country. There is no doubt that Uganda’s macro-economic state is miles ahead of where it was 33 years ago. The regular visitor to Uganda over the last ...

GIVING YOUR BEST: the example of Mr. George Kamya - By Dr. Jane Nannono.

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 10, 20190 comments

#George #Kamya

Last Sunday, I was among the group of doctors who were given the privilege to join Mr. George Kamya, an Emeritus Professor of Surgery of Makerere University College of Health Sciences, celebrate his 94th birthday at his home in Kololo, Kampala. I had not seen him for more than ...

Now the hard work begins for the Alliance for National Transformation

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 28, 20190 comments

#Alliance #Uganda #ANT #Uganda #Mugisha #Muntu #Uganda #politics

The Alliance for National Transformation was conceived by a group of serious men and women. Like a woman carrying a well-planned pregnancy, the team at the centre of the New Formation maintained a laser-like focus on the health of their foetus. The team carefully ...

Rhoda Nakibuuka Kalema@90: still running, and not weary

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 10, 20191 comments

#Kalema #Rhoda #Kalema

We celebrated a landmark birthday of a special lady this past weekend. Rhoda Nakibuuka Kalema, who was born at Mengo Hospital on May 10, 1929, turned 90 on Friday, joining a very small club of 17 million nonagenarians out of the World’s population of 7.7 billion. In Uganda, ...

Banyakigyezi Convention in the USA to promote Ugandan Tourism

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda TourismMay 21, 20190 comments

#ICOB #Uganda #Tourism #Kigyezi #Kigezi

The International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB) will gather in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA on August 1, 2019 for their Seventeenth Annual Convention. This year’s theme, “Innovation-Driven Tourism” will build on the ideas and strategies that were generated ...

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Africa’s Great Lakes Region and Nyiragongo’s Curse

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaMay 8, 20190 comments

#Birunga #Virunga #Muhabura #Muhabura #Gahinga #Mgahinga #Sabyinyo #Sabinyo #Sabinio #Bisoke #Visoke #Mikeno #Karisimbi #Nyamuragira #Nyiragongo

I am a child of the mountains, at once hopelessly enamoured by their beauty and intimidated by their silent, motionless and brooding majesty. It is a love affair that was ignited long before I knew what those big forested mounds that surrounded my childhood homes were called. I ...

Clans and totems of Banyankore (Enganda n'Emiziro y'Abanyankore)

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJanuary 2, 20190 comments

The Banyankore are grouped into at least 131 clans (enganda). However, these clans are grouped according to 4 (four) common roots (ebibunu or ebisintsi bina). These roots are: Abahinda (16 clans) Abagahe (43 clans) Abashambo (56 clans) Abaishikatwa (16 clans) Whereas ...

Rajat Neogy: the man behind Transition Magazine

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaOctober 16, 20180 comments

Rajat Neogy (1938-1995) - Photo by Camera Press Rajat Neogy, the founder and first editor of Transition Magazine, who was arrested in Kampala 50 years ago this week, would have turned 80 this year. His personal story has been overshadowed by his remarkable work with ...