Muniini K. Mulera

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 ...

Muhabura- The Guide: a photo-essay

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJanuary 11, 20170 comments

All photos in this essay shot with a cellphone. She straddles the Uganda-Rwanda border with a silent majesty. Muhabura (The Guide), an extinct volcano (or so they say), whose date of last eruption is unknown, was completely covered with mist and clouds when we arrived ...

Sun kisses Lake Bunyonyi goodnight

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJanuary 9, 20170 comments

Lake Bunyonyi, Kigezi. The Sun kisses her good night on the evening of January 9, 2017. What words can express the visual experience? How does one convey the sense of peace and calm? Lake Bunyonyi, this 25 km long lake, with a perimeter length of 64 km, is Africa’s second ...

Poor roads stunt Kigezi's development

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJanuary 9, 20170 comments

I am in Kigezi, enjoying the warmth and hospitality of Banyakigezi, renewing old friendships, catching up on developments in the lives of relatives and taking in the breathtaking beauty of this blessed land. For the most part, nearly every experience fills me with joy. Not even ...

My first pair of shoes

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaDecember 27, 20160 comments

My wife and I once shared an apartment with a Ugandan friend. Born and raised in Kampala, Nakalema (not her real name) was incredulous when, at a dinner conversation, I casually mentioned that I did not wear shoes in primary school. “Olimba! (You are lying),” she exclaimed. “They ...