Muniini K. Mulera

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 ...

Zabuloni Kabaza: Living For Christ and His Kingdom

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaFebruary 21, 20180 comments

It was a joy to spend precious time with our dear friend, brother and mentor, Omugurusi Zabuloni Kabaza at his home on Friday February 9, 2018. Mr. Kabaza was my father’s teacher at Kigyezi High School in 1946, then my teacher and headmaster at Kigyezi High School in 1965-66, ...

Budo co-education@85: How have the girls done?

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaFebruary 20, 20180 comments

It was an inspired measure when the Board of Governors of King’s College, Budo acceded to the recommendation by Rev. Canon Harold Myers Grace, the headmaster, to admit girls to the school in 1933. In the 85 years since the first group of twelve girls entered Budo, among them ...

Treat all passengers at Entebbe airport as VIPs

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaFebruary 13, 20180 comments

I am writing this aboard an Emirates flight from Dubai, floating 32,000 feet above the sea, with 10,000 km to go before we arrive in Toronto. On the night of February 11, 2018, my wife and I arrived in Dubai where we were treated like the valuable passengers that we are. ...

Borderless living at Uganda’s borders

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJanuary 23, 20180 comments

In January last year, on a visit to my ancestral home in Kahondo-ka-Byamamarembo, I invited my cousins to join me on a climb of the rugged, rocky mountain that towers above Nyamitooma village, the burial site of Rakeiri Keiramibwa, my maternal grandmother. More than fifty years ...

Nalongo Alice Nannyunga Muleto: a worker with great love and faith

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJanuary 16, 20180 comments

Dignity. Honour. Reverence. Thanksgiving. These are some of the words that capture the occasion at Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Kako, Masaka this past Saturday, January 13, when we celebrated the life of Nalongo Alice Nannyunga Muleto. She died on her birthday, December 29, ...

Memories of a beautiful Equator on Kampala-Masaka Highway

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaDecember 27, 20170 comments

In my youth, one of the highlights of a journey along the Kampala-Kabaare Highway was a stop at The Equator. Located 70 km southwest of Kampala, the Equator crossing point was a venerable spot surrounded by verdant bush and forest and a silence that was only broken by ...