Muniini K. Mulera

Favourite Ugandan political autobiographies

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 8, 20240 comments

#Aliker #Museveni #Njuba #Rugumayo #Rukikaire

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Charles Kakira and the sowing of his mustard seed

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 19, 20231 comments

#Kakira #Kabale #Kigezi #Sebikari #Muzahura #reading

There was a very good man in Kabaare of my childhood called Charles Kakira. He was the general manager of Uganda Bookshop, opposite the Uganda Transport Company bus park, which was a magnet that pulled our young minds towards a love of reading without the pressure or fear of failure. The ...

"I wanted to appoint Museveni VP", Godfrey Binaisa

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 14, 20230 comments

#Binaisa #Lule #Obote #Muwanga #Oyite #Ojok #Rugumayo #Nyerere #Idi #Amin #Lutakome #Kayiira #Kategaya #Kanyomozi #Nanyumba #Mukombe #Mpambara #Toko #Thatcher #Mugane #Njonja

(L-R: Muniini K. Mulera, Godfrey Binaisa, December 23, 2006.) **** The last time I enjoyed President Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa’s company was on the evening of December 23, 2006, and at breakfast the following morning, when he and I were guests at the home of our mutual ...

Why does Botswana work and richer South Sudan struggles?

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 11, 20230 comments

#Botswana #South #Sudan #Personal #rule #Salva #Kiir #Masisi

Photo: Botswana Parliament Building in Gaborone When Botswana President Mokgweetsi Keabetswe Masisi was asked in a recent interview why his country had managed to do what other Africa countries had failed to do, he replied: “I cannot speak for other countries, ...

Salva Kiir and the Christian’s challenge in a hateful world

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 4, 20230 comments

#Christian #love #hate #hatred #Salva #Kiir #Mayardit #Sudan

My letter last week, in which I appealed for sympathy and empathy for South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit, triggered many written responses. The majority disagreed with me, with some expressing displeasure at perceived coddling of a dictator. I understood the genesis of such ...

Salva Kiir’s health and language struggles, and the enslaved African

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 27, 20230 comments

#Sudan #Salva #Kiir #Mayardit

Following his election last week as chairman of the East African Community Summit, President Salva Kiir Mayardit of the Republic of South Sudan delivered his inaugural address to his peers and representatives of member states gathered in Arusha, Tanzania. His address was a painfully ...

Another African president joins small club of democrats.

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 20, 20230 comments

#Libera #Weah #Boakai #Mandela #Khama #Mogae #Masire #Mkapa #Mwinyi #Kikwete

Photo: Monrovia, Liberia **** Sixty-five years after the fabled wind of change blew across Africa, genuine democracy remains elusive in most countries in our beloved continent. Democratization efforts of the 1990s retreated to the more comfortable swamps of choreographed rituals ...

Honouring the dead with humility, and simplicity

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 13, 20230 comments

#Cook #Nomvula #Mashoai #Odera #Wangalwa #death #funeral #Uganda #Kenya #South #Africa

George Otis Cook Jr (1934-2023) and his wife Nomvula Mashoai-Cook. (Photo © Nomvula Mashoai-Cook) ************* Recent telecommunication advances enabled me, sitting in our living room in Toronto, Canada, to attend two funerals in Africa on Saturday. Mrs Winifred Wangalwa Odera, ...

Winifred Wangalwa Odera: a light that kept shining to the end

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 6, 20230 comments

#Awori #Wangalwa #Odera

Photo: Winifred Wangalwa Odera (1931-2023) There is silence in Funyula, Busia County of Kenya. One of its finest and kindest citizens has come to the end of her sojourn on Earth. There is a cold chill in many homes in Kenya and other parts of the world. A beautiful, loving, ...

Man in the Moon, mental health, and motherhood.

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 30, 20230 comments

#Moon #Sun #Myths #Toronto #Kikuba

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 ...