Muniini K. Mulera

Success of Uganda's new districts depends on you and me

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJune 26, 20170 comments

The anticipated birth of Uganda’s latest districts on July 1, 2017 triggers different emotions in different people. Some are hopeful. Others are despondent. Some are anxious. Others are confident. Some have a mixture of these emotions. A few are so opposed to the idea of mini-districts ...

Lift the age limit

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJune 19, 20170 comments

Uganda’s educated youth are restless. They want to inherit power and responsibility now. Many see anyone above 60 years of age (some say 50 years) to be too old and too tired to be entrusted with what they consider to be “their” future. One understands their restlessness. ...

Reconditioned politicians and democratic feudalism

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJune 13, 20170 comments

They are back! Yes, Hillary and Joe, as in Clinton and Biden, some of the permanent fixtures in American presidential politics, are back on the campaign trail. Early days, of course, but Hillary – First Lady of the USA, former Senator from New York and presidential candidate ...

Our freedom is in prison with Stella Nyanzi

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 19, 20170 comments

Two Ugandan women, both of them Christians, are at war with each other. Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a university researcher specializing in queer theory, uses sexually explicit vulgarity to fight Mrs. Janet Museveni, wife of the Ugandan president, who is also minister of education in ...

Farewell Seforooza muhara wa Ruraara rwa Mikaro-Rugwisa

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 16, 20170 comments

Her name was Seforooza muhara wa Ruraara rwa Mikaro-Rugwisa rwa Bugashu bwa Rushwiga rwa Nyamiyonga ya Rwego rwa Birondoorwa bya Kazooba ka Nzira ya Kasigyi ka Kahanya ka Kataashe ka Minyaruko ya Nyamicence. Her clan was Omusigi w'Omuzooba. Born 92+ years ago at Rutooma in the ...

Neil Bonnell: a passion for teaching, a passion for life.

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 14, 20170 comments

One of the reasons I enjoyed my high school years at King’s College, Budo, Uganda was the very high quality of teaching, supervision and nurturing we received from our teachers. King's College, Budo teaching staff, 1967. Neil Bonnell is standing second left in the middle row. ...

Kabafunzaki-Hamid saga is an indictment of Museveni regime

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 11, 20170 comments

Herbert Kabafunzaki has already been found guilty in the court of public opinion. People do not need concrete evidence to pass judgment on this Ugandan Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations who was arrested on Saturday on allegations of soliciting ...

Old man's crisis of patriotism

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 6, 20170 comments

An old man's neighbour in Kigyezi The Old Man in Mparo, Kigyezi, Uganda struggles to get up from his bed. A constant backache has graduated to a serious pain only relieved by sleep. His Mukiga herbalist has tried his medicine for several months. Things are getting worse. He ...

Museveni-Besigye talks: a necessary prelude to national dialogue

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 3, 20170 comments

There has been understandable skepticism by some and cautious relief by others upon learning that President Yoweri K. Museveni and Dr. Kizza Besigye have agreed to talk. Others have expressed outright rejection of the idea because they want nothing less than an immediate national ...

Floods and landslides are not God's will

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMarch 28, 20170 comments

Omugurusi Ezra Kisigo Mulera in Mparo, after the rains (late 1980/early90s). Photo by Edward Nobel Bisamunyu After the dry season, the rains. That is how things worked in my childhood in Mparo, Rukiga, Kigyezi. The rains of Katumba (March) soaked the hills and mountains, with ...

Celebrate Women's Day but the destination remains distant

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMarch 8, 20170 comments

Tilling the land, an African woman's burden, right from early childhood. Forgive me my sisters and women friends, but this year I am not burning with passion about the International Women’s Day. Oh, yes! It is a great moment for us to celebrate and reflect on the journey travelled ...

Friday March 18, 1977 - Graduation Day, Makerere University, Kampala

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMarch 18, 20170 comments

Graduation Day, Friday March 18, 1977 - From left to right: Dr. Gregory Thabiso Lebona, Dr. Muniini K. Mulera, Dr. Aggrey D.S. Kiyingi. Greg is now Professor of Human Anatomy in South Africa. Aggrey is a cardiologist in Australia. By God's grace! Words cannot express the feeling, ...

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 30, 20190 comments

Forgive me my African sisters and women friends, but this year I am not burning with passion about the International Women’s Day. Oh, yes! It is a great moment for us to celebrate and reflect on the journey travelled thus far. We have come a long way from the time when ...

Yes, honor Dr. Margaret Mungherera in Parliament

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaFebruary 13, 20170 comments

Of the many beautiful tributes and eulogies last week in memory of the late Dr. Margaret Mungherera, I was especially struck by what was said by two key figures in Uganda’s ruling establishment. Former Vice-President Specioza Wandira-Kazibwe wanted Margaret’s body in parliament. ...

Kigezi High School Junior: Recalling the history-making Class of '66

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaFebruary 12, 20170 comments

Dr. Charles Musinguzi mwene Barabogoza and Dr. Muniini Kwehangaana mwene Mulera, fellow inmates of Kigezi High School Junior (1965-66), in Mburara, Nkore, Uganda on January 24, 2017. It was our great luck that we should be the group that would close the chapter on the junior ...

Dr. Margaret Mungherera lived for a cause

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaFebruary 7, 20170 comments

Dr. Margaret Mungherera, dead at 59. Hard to write that. Last time I met her, Margaret was so full of life, so full of that energy that always uplifted us even when things appeared dark. She came to us, like a bright meteorite in the dark African sky, here but a moment, an ...