Muniini K. Mulera

Alliance for National Transformation is not Muntu’s party

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 29, 20190 comments

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 ...

Greed, power and money in the hands of dictators

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 22, 20190 comments

#Bashir #corruption #Sudan

The obscenity of it all! A dictator’s loot of millions of dollars’ worth in various currencies, stashed away in his pad, just like an ancient slave trader banking his bloody earnings in a hole under his tent. When a friend sent me a video clip purportedly ...

Reject materialism and collect experiences - not things

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 16, 20190 comments

I am physically very exhausted as I write. My wife and I have spent the better part of a month sorting and packing our worldly possessions, and carrying large quantities of “garbage” to the dumpster, all in preparation for downsizing our accommodation and lifestyle. ...

African Diaspora youth and the clash of cultures

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 9, 20190 comments

#African #Diaspora #cultures #Uganda

Pity the African child raised in the highly industrialized countries. Her heart and passions are in her parents’ homeland, but her world is far removed from the reality she encounters on her infrequent visits home. My favourite story about Ugandan Diaspora children is ...

Politicians' fear of shadows and our ever flowing tears

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 2, 20190 comments

#Ssebulime #Uganda #Police

Another Ugandan murdered in cold blood. His name, Ronald Ssebulime. At 39, still very young, with dreams and expectations that he will witness his grandchildren’s graduation from college. A widow, Ssebulime is said to have been a very devoted father, working ...

Happy stories of self-reliance and community empowerment in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 27, 20190 comments

#Kigezi #Mparo #Kahondo #Community #development

Ugandan politicians are readying themselves for another orgy of vote-buying. As usual, the next election season will witness enhanced cash infusions to individuals, churches, youth, women, elders’ organizations and other vote-rich groups. The people will gladly ...

Save your money, live below your means and within your needs.

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 18, 20191 comments

#Saving #wealth #creation #Uganda

I receive many requests for financial assistance. Many of them are from complete strangers who either “know” me through my weekly column in the Daily Monitor or are my Facebook “friends.” I have been asked to fund education, graduations, weddings, house building ...

There is no quarrel between Ugandans and Rwandans

By 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 war

By 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 old

By 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 Museveni

By 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 trees

By 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 Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 14, 20190 comments

I 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 ...