There is no quarrel between Ugandans and RwandansBy Muniini K. MuleraMarch 11, 20190 comments#Uganda #Rwanda #Museveni #Kagame Newspapers and other news media are perpetuating a falsehood that there is tension between Ugandans and Banyarwanda (Rwandans). In fact, there is no quarrel between the citizens of the two neighbouring countries. Obviously there is tension between the two countries’ ...
Uganda, Rwanda: please make peace, not warBy Muniini K. MuleraMarch 4, 20190 comments#Uganda #Rwanda #War The leaders of Rwanda and Uganda rarely tire of celebrating their greatest shared accomplishment, namely, the pacification of their respective countries after years of political and military instability. They boast, with justification, of their respective armies’ exploits in ...
John Mbire (1965-2019); thank you for the laughter!By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 25, 20190 comments#John #Mbire #death The news of John Mbire’s death this past Friday hit me like a landslide on a sunny afternoon. I knew he was mortal, of course, and I knew that he had been struggling with failing health. However, none of that had prepared me for the devastating phone call from ...
Faisi Bugarukaine Nyangayoona (1916-2019): Not an ordinary woman By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 19, 20190 comments#Bugarukaine #elderly #Nyangayoona #centenerian Uganda’s educated elite have constructed an image of the majority of our fellow citizens. They call them “ordinary” people, to distinguish them from themselves - the extraordinary ones - the people who happily eat up the lion’s portion of the country’s ...
Uganda’s Museveni and Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew: more different characters hard to imagine By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 5, 20190 comments#Lee #Kuan #Yew #Singapore #Museveni Photo: Singapore's financial district A common refrain by partisans of Uganda’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) goes something like this: “President Yoweri Museveni’s prolonged stay in power is not a unique phenomenon. How long was Singapore’s Lee ...
Dr Absalom Kenneth Oteng - Ugandan - World renown epizoologist - Anglican Church elder : died on Monday 28 January 2019 at 102 years oldBy Bbuye Lya MukangaFebruary 3, 20190 comments#Absalom #Kenneth #Oteng To put the life and work of Dr. Absalom Kenneth Oteng and his impact on the world in perspective, consider that between 1844 and 1884, 95% of the cattle population in the areas known as Uganda was wiped out by a disease called rinderpest (the German word meaning "cattle plague"). ...
Memories of a beautiful romance with MuseveniBy Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 29, 20190 comments#Museveni #NRM #Bobi #Wine #Uganda Exactly 33 years ago today, while standing on the steps of Uganda’s Parliament, with the Holy Bible held high in his right hand, a young Yoweri K. Museveni took the oath of office as president of Uganda. The formalities dispensed with, the triumphant guerrilla ...
In memory of our primary school teachers who nourished silk-cotton treesBy Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 14, 20191 comments#Primary #education #Mparo #Kihanga (Photo: Kihanga Boys Primary School P1-P3 classrooms. My first classroom is on the left. Still standing. Unchanged. Photo by Muniini K. Mulera) It is exactly sixty years since I “fluked” my way into school, for I was not supposed to start until 1960. Seeing ...
A New Canvas - By Dr. Jane NannonoBy Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 14, 20190 commentsI remember when I was in senior secondary school decades ago, I wanted to drop out of the Fine Art class so I paid very little attention to it. I never completed any painting and at the end of the double lessons, I would deliberately store my unfinished, unsigned painting in a drawer ...
People Corrupt Power, Not The Other Way RoundBy Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 7, 20190 comments#Power #Corruption #Lord #Acton "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." So said English Historian Lord Acton (1834-1902), though in our laziness, we have dropped the word "tends" from recent iterations of the great Englishman's observation, thus altering the original meaning. ...
Museveni needs protection of foolish laws?By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 6, 20190 comments#Museveni #Protest #Uganda #Justice FROM THE ARCHIVES Museveni needs protection of foolish laws? By Muniini K. Mulera July 10, 2000 Dear Tingasiga: News that the police had laid charges against a group of Makerere University students for allegedly annoying the President was another ...
Redraw Africa’s MapBy Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments#Africa #map #Congo (Map of Africa in the late 19th century) FROM THE ARCHIVES Redraw Africa’s Map By Muniini K. Mulera August 31,1998 One of these days, the guns in Congo will fall silent, leaving the cities, villages, forests and rivers strewn with bodies ...
US Gun Violence on its way to Uganda?By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments#Gun #violence #in #USA #and #Uganda FROM THE ARCHIVES US Gun Violence on its way to Uganda? By Muniini K. Mulera March 6, 2000 Dear Tingasiga: The television screen came alive last week with yet more pictures of armed police officers with body armour, crouching behind trees and motor vehicles, ...
Congo, as it was, is now and ever shall be?By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments#Leopolds #Ghost #Congo #Democratic #Republic #of #Congo #DRC #Mobutu #Kabila The regular traveller along the Masaka-Kampala highway in Uganda is accustomed to a dangerous stretch of road that has claimed thousands of lives since it was built by the Europeans. A road sign carries the grim warning: "WEKUUME LWERA", meaning "BEWARE OF LWERA." Many have ...
The president, his trusted adversary and a magnificent catastropheBy Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments#Museveni #Mbabazi #Uganda #elections #2016 Twenty years from now, my grandchildren will read with deep fascination a spell-binding account of a defining presidential election in which two former close comrades fought each other. They will read that the two men had enjoyed a long partnership leading a heroic struggle ...
Expose false prophets ripping big from the Jesus IndustryBy Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 1, 20190 comments#Pastors #false #prophets #evangelical #churches #man #of #God Tito Watts, a Zimbabwean “pastor,” wins the 2018 gold cup for Conman of the Year because of his daring originality in hoodwinking the gullible. In an industry that one thought had exhausted its bag of tricks, Watts and his wife Amanda devised a scam in which they sold ...