Muniini K. Mulera

Stopping Hospital equipment theft is a citizen duty for Ugandans

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersJuly 12, 20160 comments

Prosecutions are initiated against government abuse of government property; hospital equipment thieves not isolated; we hear little of prosecution success. It is worthy my while that I interrogate why hospital property thieves go Scot-free? Have you ever heard ...

Conversation between Hope and Body regarding HIV and AIDS - By Hope Chigudu

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 12, 20161 comments

So that you know… This piece highlights the work of women’s organisations in supporting HIV and AIDS infected people, the shifts that have been made despite the challenges. It reveals that the work has been done at a great cost to heart, mind and body, and ...

Canada@149

By Muniini K. MuleraCanadaJuly 2, 20160 comments

Canada officially came into being on July 1, 1867. This is Confederation Day that we celebrated today, with the quiet joy of citizens of a country whose foundation is solidly in the front bench of the freest nations in the world. Canada is not perfect. Far from it! We have many who ...

Why is Barclays Pulling Out of Africa? - By Philip Odera

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 16, 20161 comments

“Mbu, I hear that Barclays is leaving Africa. Aah, let them go! Me, I’m fed up with some of these banks that think they are doing us a favor by denying us loans when we need them,” was a statement I overheard recently. I was in a supermarket checkout counter and stuck between ...

Solution to youth unemployment stares us in the face - By Philip Odera

By Muniini K. MuleraEast AfricaJune 15, 20161 comments

Last Sunday I spent my lunchtime seated between two women who were in a heated discussion about many things. I, on the other hand, was busy negotiating my way through a succulent chicken piece, having successfully hauled my overweight body through an 8km run (actually I walked through ...

The Gift of Time - By Dr. Jane Nannono Kavuma-Kayonga

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 15, 20160 comments

On 21st April 2016 I watched mesmerized as Queen Elizabeth II of Britain celebrated her 90th birthday- making her the longest –reigning British monarch (64 years) and the longest-reigning queen in world history.( the king of Thailand has been king for 70 years) I would say that at ...

Bribes and the Tobacco Control Act, 2015

By Talibita MosesJune 15, 20160 comments

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary: Panorama; The secret bribes of big tobacco broadcast on the 30th November 2015. Panorama found that British American Tobacco (BAT) illegally paid politicians and civil servants in countries in East Africa. Uganda has a ...

THE RISE AND RISE OF GRABIOSIS AFRICANOPATHIS

By Susan GithukuKenyaApril 18, 20163 comments

#Corruption #Kenya

I am developing an interest in anthropology and particularly in a new breed of being, which I have named Grabiosis africanopathis. The broader species of the fictional genus Grabiosis are to be found everywhere in the world but their presence in Africa as the Continent continues to ...

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The Boda Boda

By Joy OderaEast AfricaMarch 10, 20166 comments

The Boda-Boda In East Africa and some other parts of Africa, we got our ‘Eureka’ moment and determined that the answer to instant youth unemployment, poverty and a mass rapid transit system, was ...

John Coltrane - Locomotion on Blue Train

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of MusicJune 9, 20160 comments

It is futile to attempt to describe music with words. Please listen and see why I love Jazz played by the Masters.

Mentors and sponsors - By Dr. Jane Kavuma Kayonga

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 30, 20163 comments

Iron sharpens iron, so says an old proverb. We learn from each other as we interact with one another. This explains why parents are our first teachers, mentors and sponsors. Each time I reflect on my life to assess whether I am living my own life, the life I want to live and ...

Isn’t Uganda hurting from health sector underfunding?

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 9, 20161 comments

While before Uganda’s Parliamentary Health Committee, Dr Diana Atwine, head of medicines and health service delivery monitoring unit, explained Uganda’s state of public hospitals, maintaining that 60 % of health centres IVs are not functional, and the referral system at ...

What I Learned from My Parents, Elders and Peers about the Gift of Community: Part Two – Vulnerability and Belonging

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUganda Uganda PoliticsMay 16, 20160 comments

What I Learned from My Parents, Elders and Peers about the Gift of Community Two – Vulnerability and Belonging My previous blog contains the 1960s story of Mwami Semei of Kiwafu Village, Entebbe, Uganda, and how Mwaami Semei stumbled into belonging and community only ...

Barbarians at the Gates The Unemployment Plight of Africaand39s University Graduates

Barbarians at the Gates? The Unemployment Plight of Africa's University Graduates

By Steve Kayizzi-MugerwaMarch 11, 20162 comments

Introduction The plight of our youthful university graduates in Africa is quite paradoxical. For many of them, education has not unleashed economic opportunity nor social security. In spite of improving economies, graduates exit their institutions ...

Uganda’s Tobacco Control Act comes into force on 19th of May 2016

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 11, 20162 comments

This 19th of May 2016 is the day the Tobacco Control Act No. 22 enters into force. The same was passed by Parliament on the 28th of July 2015, assented to by the president on the 19th of September 2015 and gazetted in the Uganda Gazette No 67 Volume CVIII dated 18th November 2015. ...

The "No Change" Slogan and the Health Care System in Uganda

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 9, 20160 comments

Uganda has been under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government for 30 years. There are things that continue to puzzle the local people and the educated all alike. For example, why would the NRM Government refuse to allocate at least 15% of its National budget to the ...