Muniini K. Mulera

Memories of a Ugandan Christmas and lessons from a Canadian experience

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaDecember 27, 20220 comments

#Christmas #Rusoorooza #Rushoroza #Rugarama #Kigyezi #Kigezi #Kabale #Kabaare

St. Peter's Cathedral, Rugarama, Kabaare, Kigyezi on December 25, 2019. Photo © Muniini K. Mulera ******************* I trust that you had a blessed Christmas celebration. This was our third Christmas in a row celebrated away from Uganda. The Lord, of course, always delights ...

Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba: an excellent choice as President of UMA

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 19, 20220 comments

#Edith #NakkuJoloba #UMA #Uganda #Medical #Association #Makerere #Mulago

The election of Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba on Sunday December 18 as the new president of Uganda Medical Association (UMA) is excellent news. It restores the 58-year-old organization to a path its founders and sustainers envisaged, namely, a robust organization that promotes and maintains ...

Doctors’ apathy and Uganda Medical Association’s problems

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 12, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #Ruskin #Cook #Odonga #Kasirye #Senbeguya #Semambo #Mwesigye #Mungherera #KibukaMusoke #Billington #UMA #BMA #Oleo

Photo: Prof. Alexander Mwa Odonga MB ChB, FRCS, LMS (EA), Dip. Med. (EA), President of the BMA (Uganda Branch) 1964, President of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa 1971-1972, Dean of Makerere Medical School, 1975-1977. ********************* Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, who knelt ...

Dr. Samuel Oledo has disqualified himself from leadership of Uganda’s doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 5, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #UMA #Oledo

The current president of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has brought great shame and embarrassment to the profession of medicine. While speaking at the Patriotism for Youth and Investment Symposium at Kololo Independence Grounds on Saturday December 3, Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, ...

Gerald Wilson Big Band: Moment of Truth

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicNovember 29, 20220 comments

#Big #band #Jazz #Gerald #Wilson #Tone #Poet

Gerald Stanley Wilson (1918-2014) was a trumpeter, composer, arranger, educator, and big band leader. Born in Shelby, Mississippi, he spent most of his adult life in Los Angele, California. This record, which was made at the Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles, in August, and ...

Inherited land wrangles in Uganda: a reality check

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 29, 20220 comments

#Land #Uganda #inheritance #wrangles

There is nothing new about inter-personal land wrangles in Uganda. Growing up in Kigyezi in the 1960s, stories of fights over plot boundaries, land ownership, and land inheritance were part of our informal education. In those days, Kigyezi and Bugisu were leading theatres of homicides ...

Paul Ssemogerere’s epitaph: A rebel with hope and perseverance

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 22, 20220 comments

#Ssemogerere #DP #Obote #Museveni #Okello #Lutwa #Uganda

Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere was a rebel. The soft, smiling type, with an easily underestimated resolve. The under-appreciated hero because his conquests did not include blood and human corpses. There was a time when I did not appreciate Ssemogerere’s politics. Why, ...

Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden: Part 3 – The Pearl of Africa’s Crown, a land flowing with milk and honey – Uganda’s legendary potential

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaNovember 19, 20220 comments

Central message: Part 3 briefly sketches what once made Uganda a model developing nation, that was cited as a development success story: an idyllic natural setting; ethnic diversity of inter-ethnic many commonalities; the streak of a cosmopolitan nation; an effective public administration ...

Is Museveni stepping down in 2026?

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 14, 20220 comments

#Museveni #Muhoozi #Kainerugaba #Uganda

Many Ugandan political commentators appear to be convinced that the “presidential succession” game is already in play. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has been anointed the leading candidate. Numerous people, at home and abroad, are falling over each ...

Gayaza High School deserves our financial support

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 7, 20220 comments

#Gayaza #Masembe #Mpanga #Bagaaya #Nsibirwa #Kalema #Kasule #Obote #Mugwanya #Kadama #Kavuma

(Some of the Gayaza girls at the gathering in Kampala on November 5, 2022. Left - right: Jane Nannono Kavuma Kayonga [red top], Barbara Kibaya Kiwanuka, Florence Isabirye Muranga [standing], Rowena Sempa Ndugga, Christina Mugwanya Kadama, and Jennifer Wanyoto Musiime.) ------------------------- The ...

Rukiga District: brief facts and figures

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziOctober 27, 20223 comments

#Rukiga #Mparo #Muhanga #Bukinda #Kamuheesi #Kamwezi #Kashambya #Rwamucuucu

District: Rukiga Total Area: 426.3 sq. km. Population: 106,000 people (2021) Males: 51,300 (2021) Females: 54,700 (2021) Male: Female ratio: 0.94:1 Population density: 249/sq. km. Geography: Rukiga is a mountainous boot-shaped wedge in South West Uganda, ...

New prime minister offers hope to Lesotho

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 1, 20220 comments

#Lesotho #Maseru #Matekane

The Kingdom of Lesotho has a new prime minister. Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane was sworn in on Friday October 28, becoming his country’s tenth prime minister since independence from Britain in 1966. Matekane, a 64-year-old businessman, who is said to be the richest person ...

Counting (numbers) in Rukiga/Runyankore

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi CultureOctober 30, 20220 comments

#Okubara #omutwaro #akasiriira #akakeikuru #akakaikuru #akakaira #akahumbi #akatabarwa

Our ancestors had a counting system whose terminology was similar to or shared roots with that of Bantu language nations all over Africa. It appears that there were words for quantities/amounts up to, at most, ten thousand. It is very unlikely that there was an item that needed enumeration ...

Banyarukiga, there is power in unity

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi PoliticsOctober 30, 20220 comments

#Rukiga #Mparo #Muhanga #Bukinda #Kamuheesi #Kamwezi #Kashambya #Rwamucuucu

The advent of Rukiga’s transformation into a district filled me with hope for positive change. I was born in Kabaare, Kigyezi, to a Munyakabaare mother and a Munyakahondo father who went to Mparo to work in 1954. There they settled and we became dual citizens of Ndorwa and Rukiga ...

Political and administrative structure of Kigyezi Region

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi PoliticsOctober 28, 20220 comments

#Rukiga #Rukungiri #Kanungu #Kisoro #Rubanda #Kabale #Kabaare #Kigezi #Kigyezi

Kigyezi, a colonial construct in 1911, was a single administrative district throughout the colonial period (1911-1962) and the first eighteen years of Uganda's independence (1962). It was then subdivided into two districts in 1974, and then smaller districts in the years that followed. ...

Key events in the history of Kigyezi from 1500 t 1930

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi HistoryOctober 27, 20220 comments

#Kigezi #Kigyez #history #Kahondo #Muhumuza #Ntokibiri #Katuregye #Makobore #Miranda #Musinga #Muhoozi #Kahaya

It is believed, with reliable evidence from studies of pollens, that the area now known as Kigyezi had human settlements at least as far back as 2000 years ago. However, there is no reliable information about our ancestors before about 1500 AD. Likewise, the pre-colonial history ...