Muniini K. Mulera

THE RISE AND RISE OF GRABIOSIS AFRICANOPATHIS

By Susan GithukuKenyaApril 18, 20163 comments

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 ...

Empowering nurses builds patient-centred health care

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 4, 20162 comments

Empowered nurses have effective conflict resolution skills and understand the skilful application of nursing ethics to build strong patient care teams in Uganda. Cultivating a culture of advocacy and empowerment among nurses decreases the length of hospital stays thus improving patient ...

POLITICAL WILL AND REDUCING MATERNAL AND CHILD MORTALITY

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 27, 20160 comments

What is Uganda's budget for this year's presidential swearing in ceremony and how much does it cost to save the 16-20 women who will possibly die in childbirth that day? Sri Lanka is one of the low income countries in South Asia, but has been hailed for progressively ...

Just Like the Spots of a Hyena – the Swagger of Impunity and Military Dictatorship

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUganda Uganda PoliticsApril 25, 20160 comments

Just Like the Spots of a Hyena – the Swagger of Impunity and Military Dictatorship In my first blog at Mulera’s Fireplace, I alluded to an incident at a pre-Independence election rally where the person who went on to be Independent Uganda’s first Attorney ...

Birds and people

By AtwokiEast AfricaApril 19, 20160 comments

There was an item on the news today that dinosaurs started losing the battle for survival fifty million years before the asteroid strike that finally wiped them out. It is surmised that splitting up of continents and climatic change brought down the curtain on their existence and ...

Kihanga Boys Primary School: Remembering my headmasters, my teachers and the buildings

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziApril 17, 20160 comments

Kihanga Boys Primary School in Mparo, Rukiga, Kigezi is the place where my formal education journey started. It sits atop the hill by the same name, with a commanding view of the neighbourhoods of Kanywero, Kibaare, Omurukiri rwa Kanzikwera, Sindi, Nyarurambi, Iborozya, Ibumba, Butatuurwa, ...

Canada to legalize physician-assisted dying

By Muniini K. MuleraCanadaApril 15, 20160 comments

Prompted by a Supreme Court decision, the Government of Canada has tabled Bill C-14 for the purpose of legalizing physician assisted dying.The bill allows people who have a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability, and whose death is "reasonably ...

Mental Health in Africa: New approaches to an old problem

By ThaddyApril 15, 20160 comments

By Professor Thaddeus P. Ulzen* The problem of mental health is as old as the ages but I am not entirely certain that I have all the new approaches that will be required. I prefer to use the term mental illnesses rather than mental illness because the brain, as complex as it ...