Muniini K. Mulera

Electronic number plates a gift to Uganda police weevils and their criminal accomplices

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJune 26, 20180 comments

Be afraid. Not afraid of the gunmen and iron bar hitmen and kidnappers, but of some of the measures that the president announced last week as his offering for solving violent crime that has claimed the lives of prominent Ugandans. Of the president’s Ten-Point Program for Checking ...

Ugandan Diaspora do more than post brave stuff on social media

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJune 19, 20180 comments

Kampala, Uganda at night Two days ago, Joachim Buwembo, a distinguished Ugandan journalist posted a provocative and stimulating paragraph on his Facebook wall that generated vigorous debate. Buwembo, who has served as editor of this and other East African newspapers, wrote: ...

Voting wisely requires genuine freedom of choice

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJune 12, 20180 comments

Ontario went to the polls last Thursday. A new parliament was elected, with it a new premier of the province. The days of campaigning were the usual non-news that one is accustomed to in these parts. Not much noise. No threats by the ruler to arrest his opponents. Just politicians ...

Importing Cuban doctors to Uganda an excellent measure

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMay 14, 20180 comments

It is good that the Government is planning to import Cuban doctors to serve Ugandan patients. Partisan politics and reasonable demands by Ugandan physicians for better pay should not cloud the wisdom of sourcing doctors from any country that is willing to help ease Uganda’s critical ...

Rhoda Kalema@89: Still driven by a purposeful mission

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMay 7, 20180 comments

This week we celebrate the birthday of a great woman whose immense wisdom and experience, intellectual curiosity and analytical mind invariably add to a visitor’s education. Rhoda Nakibuuka Kalema - Born on May 10, 1929 To spend an afternoon with Mrs. Rhoda Nakibuuka Kalema, ...

Nagenda@80: courage, brother! Courage!

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 30, 20180 comments

John Nagenda (Photo by The Monitor, Kampala.) We toast John Nagenda, who turned 80 on April 25th. Notwithstanding my inability to access a precise head count of Ugandans aged 80 and above, I confidently declare Mr. Nagenda to be among very, very few who have successfully ...

Correcting the names of our lakes, mountains and towns matters

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 24, 20180 comments

eSwatini His Majesty iNgwenyama Mswati III Dlamini has decreed that his realm, hitherto known as Swaziland, shall henceforth be called the Kingdom of eSwatini (or Umbuso weSwatini). He gave two reasons. First, a return to the roots was long overdue. Second, His Majesty was ...

Uganda then and now

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 19, 20180 comments

Amazing what the brain does to the information that’s uploaded during childhood. It becomes rather hard to erase and replace it. For example, my Uganda remains a country that is still divided into 15 districts. Well, alright, 16 districts. That is the count that I think we had ...

Banyakigyezi Convention in Canada to promote tourism in our homeland

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 9, 20180 comments

Ibirunga vocanic range, Bufumbira, Kigyezi The impact of Kigyezi’s beauty on the spirits of a first-time visitor is always a joy to watch. Last December, our friend Akello Miriam Atoro travelled from Gulu to Kabale to visit us. It was her first encounter with the Kigyezi experience. ...

Paulo Ngorogoza of Kigezi: the tragedy of neglect

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 2, 20180 comments

My sadness at the state of the neglected palace of Ankole’s last king and the house of its first prime minister pales compared to the grief I feel each time I visit the once beautiful houses of Kigezi’s greatest leader. Those houses, one in Bukinda and the other in Kabale, Kigezi, ...

Remembering Karekaho Karegyesa: privileged, humble servant.

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMarch 27, 20180 comments

Karekaho Karegyesa (September 23, 1924 - March 21, 2018- Photographer: Unknown) The death of the Honourable Karekaho mwene Karegyesa ka Makobore wa Muhoozi has left me with very mixed emotions. I am sad, thankful, fearful and positively proud. I am saddened, of course, ...

Neglected home and legacy of Ankole’s greatest leader

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMarch 20, 20180 comments

The pitiful state of Mugaba, the palace of Omugabe of Ankole, did not prepare us for the shocking condition of a house on a hill just across the valley from the king’s palace. That house was once the residence of the single most influential figure in that kingdom’s history. The ...

Shame on you, Banyankore!

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMarch 12, 20180 comments

Ugandan tourism promoters give disproportionate weight to our country’s abundant wild animals and other popular destinations. These are magnificent, of course, and will satisfy the majority of once-in-a-lifetime visitors. However, great beauty awaits one who chooses the unbeaten ...

What was Uganda's Kale Kayihura thinking?

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMarch 6, 20180 comments

I am completely indifferent to Kale Kayihura’s dismissal from the office of Inspector General of Police. If anything, I am deeply grateful to President Yoweri Museveni for saving my dear brother Kayihura from himself. Well, at least until he appoints him to some other ...

Godfrey Katanywa’s hair and the struggle for freedom

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaFebruary 27, 20180 comments

In the struggle for freedom, those who do things quietly often go unrecognized. One example of this is Godfrey Karangwa Katanywa, a Ugandan who played an unexpected role in the struggle for civil rights in the United States of America. Katanywa from Ankole Kingdom, together ...

Grateful to Uganda’s Great Generation

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaFebruary 21, 20180 comments

The ranks of Uganda’s Great Generation have been pruned so thin that we, their offspring, are expected to be the elders of the clans. That is very humbling. Even more humbling is that the Lord has spared a few, among them my father, now in their 90s, still anchors that we look ...