Muniini K. Mulera

Worrisome political trends in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaDecember 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...