Muniini K. Mulera

Man in the Moon, mental health, and motherhood.

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 30, 20230 comments

Photo: Moon over Toronto, October 30, 2023 © Muniini K. Mulera Early Sunday morning, October 1, 2023. The Sun, in glorious majesty, rises in the East, as is its habit in these parts, casting a linear orange glow over Lake Ontario. Cheerful smiles, my face now wears, my ...

Dr. Aggrey Kiyingi, Dr. Joseph Bukenya and The Class of 1977

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 23, 20230 comments

#Kiyingi #Bukenya #Makerere #Mulago #Class #1977

Photo: Dr. John Mary "Joseph" Bukenya It has been a very dark October for The Class of 1977, that being the year that we graduated from Makerere Medical School, Kampala. Our ranks have been thinned once again, with the deaths of two dear brothers with whom we shared five ...

Princess Pherrie Kimbugwe: brave and gentle friend

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 16, 20230 comments

#Pherrie #Kimbugwe

Eight months ago, my wife and I were very privileged to meet a woman in Kabaare that made a very good impression on us. She was very brave, down to earth, and spiritual, with an evidently warm heart that radiated through her speech, her smile, her laughter, and her empathy towards ...

Uganda’s independence: What if?

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 9, 20230 comments

#Uganda #independence #UNC #DP #UPU #UPC #KY #Kasolo #Kiwanuka #Obote #Musaazi #Rwetsiba #MasembeKabale #Cohen

Whereas political independence of African colonies from European powers was a very good thing, they handed political power to us too soon. We were simply not ready. Whenever I have said this, I have triggered vitriolic responses driven by understandable emotions. The language ...

Latest scientific glance at the Creation of Earth and life.

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 25, 20230 comments

#Bennu #asteroid #OSIRISRex #NASA

The beautiful Christian song, “How Great Thou Art,” has been in my heart and on my tongue since the arrival on Planet Earth on Sunday, September 24th, of a small sample of dirt and gravel from an asteroid with the lovely name of Bennu. With an estimated weight ...

Private donations key to modernizing Uganda's traditional schools

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 18, 20231 comments

#Kihanga #Education #Uganda

Photo: Kihanga Secondary School ICT Centre will offer a learning environment similar to this. ************ The fundraising event for the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre at Kihanga Secondary School exceeded my expectation. Held at Kembabazi Restaurant in ...

Memoirs of Neil Bonnell of Budo: delightful and inspiring.

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 5, 20230 comments

#Neil #Bonnell #Budo #Scots #PGC #College #Warwick #Australia #Uganda

Photo: Budo teaching staff, 1966. Back row - L to R: John Fyfe, Dennis Chisholm, James Patrick Boston, Colin M. Davis, Patrick Whittle. Middle row - L to R: Lewis Dodd, Neil Bonnell, Keith Brewster, Nick Milford, Geoffrey Barraclough. Seated - L to R: Barbara Collins, Joy ...

The Bishop’s Diploma

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 28, 20230 comments

#Kigezi #Akanjuna #Bible #Tumusingize

The Bishop’s Diploma would be a good title of a book about the conflict between the church as an organization on the one hand, and Christianity on the other; between formalism on the one hand, and the Spirit-driven movement for which numerous people have been martyred since ...

Kihanga Secondary School’s timely embrace of advanced ICT literacy

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 21, 20230 comments

#Kihanga #ICT #Twesigomwe #Rukundo #Kakuru #Gensi #Rutebarika #Kwarisiima #Kyerere #Baryantuma #Munono #Akanjuna

It is one thing to make a promise, and quite another to fulfil it. Central to the operations of the Diaspora International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB) is delivery on its promises with transparency and accountability. ICOB’s recent commitment to donate up to USD 30,000 (about ...

Topher Twesigye: Ugandan diplomat with a politically incorrect identity

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 14, 20230 comments

#Twesigye #Topher #Budo #Nyakishenyi #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Uganda #Makerere #Ekwaro #Anyang #Nyongo #Mugyenyi #OporiaEkwaro

In many countries, Topher Twesigye would have been a household name, an honoured and celebrated intellectual and leader of his people. In Uganda, most readers of this column probably have no idea who he was. Easily one of the brightest and most patriotic citizens, Twesigye’s ...

Memories of Kampala's Katanga Valley

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 7, 20230 comments

#Katanga #Wandegeya #Kampala

(Photo: An example of Kampala's urban anarchy. This not Katanga Valley. The latter is worse than this.) *** On an Old Budonians’ WhatsApp Forum, Daudi Mutaaga asked whether we knew why the area between Wandegeya and Mulago Hospital in Kampala was named Katanga. I ...

Africa’s great volcanos and Uganda’s Alliance for National Transformation

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 31, 20230 comments

#ANT #Alliance #Uganda #Alaso #Muntu #Muhabura #Mgahinga #Gahinga #Mugahinga #Sabyinyo #Bisoke #Mikeno #Karisimbi #Volcano #Sebahire

Photo: Gahinga, Sabyinyo, Bisoke, Mikeno and Karisimbi viewed from the Second Hut on Mount Muhabura. © Ezra Sebahire ************ The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), which was launched on Wednesday May 22, 2019, is like Ibirunga, the eight volcanic mountains in Africa’s ...

Dennis Chisholm of Budo: an impactful life

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 24, 20230 comments

#Chisholm #Budo #Lockerbie #Mugisha #Bikangaga

© Photo of Sandra & Dennis Chisholm by John Bikangaga Jr. ********** Budonians of my generation are in mourning. Dennis Chisholm, the senior physics teacher at King’s College, Budo from 1964 to1973, died in Scotland on Tuesday July 11. He was 89 years old, and ...

Diaspora Banyakigezi Organization not part of Muhoozi Kainerugaba Project

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 26, 20230 comments

#ICOB #MK #Muhoozi #Kainerugaba

Photo: Comrades walking paths we trod decades ago ********************************************************* The conmen are at it again. President Yoweri Museveni has been repeatedly conned by some Diaspora Ugandans into believing that they have thousands of supporters of the ...

Legacy of David John Kanabahita (March 24, 1934 – June 11, 2023)

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 12, 20230 comments

#Kanabahita #Abainika #Kigyezi #Kigezi

School teaching is the most important profession. That you are reading this is evidence of my assertion. As a literate professional, you stand on broad shoulders of those who taught you how to read, write and count. That was a foundation without which all else was impossible, except ...

Educated elite’s shameless exploitation of Museveni’s generosity

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJune 5, 20230 comments

#ICOB #Museveni #Banyakigyezi #Banyakigezi #Kabale #Kalimuzo #Ngorogoza

A friend asked me why Banyakigyezi in Uganda seemed to be unable to form sustainable organizations. He cited the Kigezi National Bank of Commerce, and the ICOB-Uganda Chapter as examples. I did not have a clear answer, except that greed and bad politics ...