Muniini K. Mulera

Kisiizi Hospital in Uganda urgently needs your help

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 29, 20170 comments

Dear friends, Kisiizi Hospital, one of the best managed community general hospitals in rural East Africa, has been devastated by floods. I am reaching out to you as a man born and raised less than 20 kilometers from that hospital, in Kigezi region of Uganda, and on behalf ...

In Defense of Yoweri Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 26, 20170 comments

We have seen this movie before. Multiple episodes since 1962. Different actors. Same producers. Same script. Just a variation on a theme. The movie: Uganda Against Itself. The actors: various rulers and their courtiers. The latest episode – The Age Limit - released in 2017, ...

Kisiizi Hospital tragedy a wake-up call for all of us

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 20, 20170 comments

Mparo farms after the floods - Photo by Ezra Sebahire, Sept. 17, 2017 In recent days, the springs of the great deep have burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens have been opened all over Uganda. Landslides and floods have exacted painful disruption on hundreds ...

From Kisiizi, Kigyezi to Keystone,Florida: Disaster preparedness is national security

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 12, 20170 comments

The Atlantic Ocean is angry. Hurricane Harvey, a devastating tropical cyclone, has left Houston and other Southern Texas communities disabled by floods. Seventy people are dead. $180 billion in damage. Then Hurricane Irma. An even more savage tropical cyclone that has swept ...

Message to Yoweri Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 1, 20170 comments

My dear president Who art in Entebbe Hear this young man In next door Kenya Accept the verdict of Court Finding against him. Hear him say Beautiful words of peace To his supporters And to all his people. Yes, brother Yoweri It is really possible To ...

The Doctor who would like to be Jennifer Musisi’s driver

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 28, 20170 comments

Dr. Silvia Awor, an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Gulu University, followed an academic track at Class A institutions. High school at Mt. Saint Mary’s Namagunga; Medical school at Makerere University; and Postgraduate fellowship in obstetrics and gynaecology at McMaster University, ...

Charade behind lifting Uganda's presidential age limit

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 21, 20170 comments

Ugandan President Yoweri K. Museveni, who will be 77 years old at the time of the next elections in 2021, wants Article 102(b) of the Constitution amended to give him legal cover for his plan to continue to rule his realm. His public claim of disinterest in the matter is a ...

Banyakigyezi meeting in USA about poverty alleviation, not partisan politics

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 1, 20170 comments

A Munyakigyezi boy in January 2017. Non-partisan Where two or three Banyakigezi gather in the name of their region, questions are raised in some quarters. What are the sons and daughters of the mountains up to? What is their political agenda? On whose side are they? This ...

State of ICOB in 2017:Confident, Focused, Revitalized

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJuly 30, 20170 comments

My fellow Banyakigezi, It is an honour to report to you that as we celebrate the fourteenth anniversary of the birth of the International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB), our organization is more determined than ever to accomplish our core objectives. These objectives, established ...

No contradiction in being political but non-partisan

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJuly 25, 20170 comments

Can a group or organization be politically active but non-partisan? Is it possible for people who support different political parties to engage in healthy, nonpartisan political discussions? Is it possible to ban partisan content from social media discussion groups while promoting ...

What does a sick Ugandan do? Good question, Ms. Kadaga

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJuly 10, 20170 comments

What does this malnourished Kabale kid do? Three Ugandan politicians have died in the last three weeks. Maria Lubega Mutagamba, a former minister of tourism died from complications of liver cancer. She was 64. John Sebaana Kizito, a former government minister, wealthy ...

Social status and justice in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJune 28, 20170 comments

I do not wish to litigate or interrogate the case of Herbert Kabafunzaki, a Ugandan MP who is accused of corruption, to which he has pleaded not guilty. It is a matter for the courts to settle and it is not the purpose of this post. My interest is in social status and justice ...

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 ...