Muniini K. Mulera

Lessons for ICOB from Canada and the World Jewish Congress

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziJuly 4, 20160 comments

In the 35 years that I have lived in Canada, I have been most impressed by the citizens’ ability to transcend political differences to achieve shared goals and collective interests. If we need a new hospital in our community, for example, we mobilize funds from the community ...

Leaders should put Kigezi first, self last

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziJune 13, 20160 comments

Written in January 2013 I have spent the last week in Kigezi, the one place I am happier than anywhere else on Earth. The thick morning mist that gives way to glorious sunshine invariably triggers memories of a happy childhood spent exploring the mountains and valleys of Bushengyera, ...

We must keep ICOB resolutely non-partisan

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziMay 24, 20160 comments

When the International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB) meets in London, England during the weekend of July 22-24, there will be very good reason to celebrate an organization that has exceeded the modest expectations of a small group of people who midwifed its birth in Toronto, ...

Clans & Totems of the Banyakigezi

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziApril 2, 20160 comments

Enganda Z'Abanyakigyezi Please click Enganda Zabanyakigyezi - Clans & Totems of Banyakigyezi 2019 to refresh your memory re: your clan, your clan totem and your clan's friend. Banyakigyezi youth who were born abroad may find this very helpful as they get into the years of ...

Worrisome political trends in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

By Muniini K. MuleraKenyaDecember 12, 20170 comments

The state of politics in our great lakes region continues to show a worrisome trend. As Kenya celebrates 54 years of independence today, the legitimacy of its government is questioned and challenged by opposition party leaders and members. The results of the elections that returned ...

Kenyan capitalism at the heart of its march towards greatness

By Muniini K. MuleraKenyaSeptember 5, 20170 comments

Delivering last week’s landmark ruling that nullified the results of Kenya’s presidential elections, Chief Justice David Kenani Maraga said: “The greatness of a nation lies in its fidelity to its constitution and a strict adherence to the rule of law, and above all the fear ...

Message to Yoweri Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraKenyaSeptember 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 ...

Congratulations Mr. Kenyatta, but it is not yet Uhuru

By Muniini K. MuleraKenyaAugust 14, 20170 comments

Damacline Marube, a Kenyan woman who lives in Nairobi’s Mathare Valley slum, lost her daughter on Friday. The little girl, Stephanie Moraa, nine years old, was felled by a bullet in her chest. Her killer was almost certainly a Kenya Police officer, charged with bringing peace ...

Salutations Mwai, Mugane and Moi

By Muniini K. MuleraKenyaDecember 2, 20160 comments

Be humble friends, be humble! Live and please let live Serve with good heart, my friends The alternative is never worth it. I honour them, these three men Not 'cause I agreed with all They said and did in Kenya But 'cause they served with vigour Ev'n when the ...

Fred Nyakawa Osoro April 9, 1967- April 4, 2016

By Muniini K. MuleraKenyaApril 11, 20160 comments

Fred Nyakawa Osoro April 9, 1967 - April 4, 2016 East Africa has lost a good man. Mr. Fred Nyakawa Osoro of Botori Nyanchwa, Kisii County, Kenya died on Monday April 4, 2016. Fred, who died in his sleep in Nairobi, was an oil company executive in Cape Town, and had worked ...

Worrisome political trends in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaDecember 12, 20170 comments

East African Legislative Assembly: choose able and experienced Pan-Africanists

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaFebruary 28, 20170 comments

The mandate of the third East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) expires on June 4. A new class of representatives, nine from each partner state, most of them new, will take their turn at shaping the region’s development agenda. One hopes that the respective national parliaments ...

Surgery and operating rooms- the journey continues

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaJune 22, 20160 comments

In the blog on Caesarean Section in Buganda in 1879, we reproduce the report of a surgical delivery of a baby that was witnessed by Robert William Felkin, a medical student who was serving as King Mutesa's personal physician. The advances in human surgery that have taken place ...

Worrisome political trends in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

By Muniini K. MuleraBurundiDecember 12, 20170 comments

Memories of Alberta, Canada

By Muniini K. MuleraCanadaApril 13, 20160 comments

When I accepted an appointment as a resident in Paediatrics at the University of Calgary, Alberta in 1981, I had no idea what the place and the province looked like. I imagined a flatland with endless wheat fields and, perhaps, a glimpse of the mountains in the far distance ...

Alliance for National Transformation is not Muntu’s party

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 29, 20190 comments

#Alliance #ANT #Uganda #Mugisha #Muntu

Kampala news media, including The Monitor, have run headlines announcing the formal registration of what they have called “Muntu’s Party.” Indeed, this has been the drumbeat since Mugisha Muntu, together with many colleagues, resigned from the Forum for ...