Muniini K. Mulera

The Lunatic Express: Contribution of the Uganda Railway to the port and socio-economic development of Kenya and East Africa

By Juvenal ShiunduMarch 13, 20161 comments

Long before Nairobi, or any other hinterland town, was established, Mombasa was an ancient city of more than 1,000 years. Mombasa old port was a gateway to the interior for hundreds of years where Arab traders came with their dhows and the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama arrived ...

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WHAT LIES UNDERNEATH

By Susan GithukuUganda East AfricaMarch 15, 20161 comments

The history books will write that in the region where I was born, democracy was at war and the constitutions that were drawn up had been scripted on low cost paper. Decades ago I was an avid student of history. I could remember details of inane events at the drop of a ...

Normal Childhood sexuality: a heinous sin of self pollution

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 10, 20161 comments

Few things shock my people more than being told that children are sexual beings just like their parents. To hear that masturbation is a perfectly normal activity even among infants might drive some to call the morality police. Conjecture, bias, superstition, fossilized cultural ...

Childhood to Old Age Image of Uganda’s Long Trudge to Nationhood

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaMarch 10, 20162 comments

Childhood to Old Age Image of Uganda’s Long Trudge to Nationhood As one enters Entebbe Town, right after St Mark’s Anglican Church, there is a lone tree on the right-hand-side standing in the middle of a small open well-mowed green area. It is called The ...

Principles for participation at Mulera's Fireplace

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 11, 20160 comments

To post anything at Mulera’s Fireplace, you must fully accept and comply with these simple principles: We provide an open, easily accessible and honest forum for East Africans, friends of East Africa and other world citizens with an interest in East Africa. We encourage everyone ...

Preservation of our culture

By BB atwookiEast AfricaMarch 10, 20162 comments

Written by BB Atwooki "Preservation of our Cultural Heritage" Over the past two decades, as I have travelled across Africa, nothing has been more inspiring than the different cultures that I have experienced first hand. This is even more so now that I ...