Muniini K. Mulera

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 ...

The Bishop’s Diploma

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 28, 20230 comments

#Kigezi #Akanjuna #Bible #Tumusingize

The Bishop’s Diploma would be a good title of a book about the conflict between the church as an organization on the one hand, and Christianity on the other; between formalism on the one hand, and the Spirit-driven movement for which numerous people have been martyred since ...

Kihanga Secondary School’s timely embrace of advanced ICT literacy

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 21, 20230 comments

#Kihanga #ICT #Twesigomwe #Rukundo #Kakuru #Gensi #Rutebarika #Kwarisiima #Kyerere #Baryantuma #Munono #Akanjuna

It is one thing to make a promise, and quite another to fulfil it. Central to the operations of the Diaspora International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB) is delivery on its promises with transparency and accountability. ICOB’s recent commitment to donate up to USD 30,000 (about ...

Topher Twesigye: Ugandan diplomat with a politically incorrect identity

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 14, 20230 comments

#Twesigye #Topher #Budo #Nyakishenyi #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Uganda #Makerere #Ekwaro #Anyang #Nyongo #Mugyenyi #OporiaEkwaro

In many countries, Topher Twesigye would have been a household name, an honoured and celebrated intellectual and leader of his people. In Uganda, most readers of this column probably have no idea who he was. Easily one of the brightest and most patriotic citizens, Twesigye’s ...

Memories of Kampala's Katanga Valley

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 7, 20230 comments

#Katanga #Wandegeya #Kampala

(Photo: An example of Kampala's urban anarchy. This not Katanga Valley. The latter is worse than this.) *** On an Old Budonians’ WhatsApp Forum, Daudi Mutaaga asked whether we knew why the area between Wandegeya and Mulago Hospital in Kampala was named Katanga. I ...

Africa’s great volcanos and Uganda’s Alliance for National Transformation

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 31, 20230 comments

#ANT #Alliance #Uganda #Alaso #Muntu #Muhabura #Mgahinga #Gahinga #Mugahinga #Sabyinyo #Bisoke #Mikeno #Karisimbi #Volcano #Sebahire

Photo: Gahinga, Sabyinyo, Bisoke, Mikeno and Karisimbi viewed from the Second Hut on Mount Muhabura. © Ezra Sebahire ************ The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), which was launched on Wednesday May 22, 2019, is like Ibirunga, the eight volcanic mountains in Africa’s ...

Dennis Chisholm of Budo: an impactful life

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 24, 20230 comments

#Chisholm #Budo #Lockerbie #Mugisha #Bikangaga

© Photo of Sandra & Dennis Chisholm by John Bikangaga Jr. ********** Budonians of my generation are in mourning. Dennis Chisholm, the senior physics teacher at King’s College, Budo from 1964 to1973, died in Scotland on Tuesday July 11. He was 89 years old, and ...