Muniini K. Mulera

Jovia Battaka employed kindness and respect as a tool for teaching

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 26, 20220 comments

(Photo: A teacher with her former student, July 1999. © Muniini Mulera) Another dark season. Depressing news from Kampala. One of my favourite primary school teachers is dead. Her beautiful smile stilled forever on Saturday July 23. Her wisdom and industry filed ...

British, African and Sri Lankan rulers’ disconnect with reality

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 13, 20220 comments

#Boris #Johnson #Dos #Santos #Angola #Gotabaya #Sri #Lanka

I am in a summer mood, enjoying much longed-for sunshine. A cheerful smile is in permanent residence on my face. I laugh easily and take news of painful events in stride. I watch human folly with a shrug, unbothered by most things beyond my control. However, I confess that some things ...

Peter Ekodeu: Uganda’s first African English news reader

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 4, 20220 comments

#Ekodeu #Uganda #Broadcasting #Service

Peter William Ekodeu would have turned 88 this year. Like many who played significant roles in independent Uganda’s early history, Ekodeu is largely forgotten by the country that he helped shape and served with honour. Born on October 21, 1934, in Soroti, Teso to Elizabeth ...

Christopher Gamparo gave back to his people

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 27, 20220 comments

#Gamparo #Mparo #Kilembe

Christopher Bernard Gamparo 1939-2022 (Photo © Amoni Gamparo) His name announced his address. His smile complimented a gentle demeanor. His intellect enriched by experience. His industry sharpened by danger and fortune. Christopher Bernard Gamparo, who died at the age ...

Corruption in Uganda: a marriage of the public’s need and officialdom’s greed

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 21, 20220 comments

#Corrruption #Uganda #kitu #kidogo #Museveni #nokofio #kutonyora #egunjechiokomuhomwe #kula #bribe #Nsibambi #Mazrui

Corruption. Inexhaustible subject of conversation and scholarly publications. The heart of darkness that engulfs humanity. The fall of man, described in the Judeo-Christian scripture, was an act of corruption that turned on a fire that still burns hot in every corner of Planet Earth. ...

Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden: From Model Country, through Wrong Dreams, False Starts and Wrong Turns to Poisoned State

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaJune 20, 20220 comments

Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden: From Model Country, through Wrong Dreams, False Starts and Wrong Turns to Poisoned State – Part One – A parable of two losers: How Arthur Miller’s Willy Loman and Uganda’s Jacob Oulanyah illuminate Uganda’s ...

TOBACCO FARMERS SHOULD HEED TO CALL FOR TRANSITIONING TO ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS.

By Talibita MosesNovember 1, 20220 comments

The 10th of May 2022 Parliamentary Order paper bore an intriguing item- Numbered 9. This was a Motion for a resolution of Parliament urging the government to consider tobacco farmers from the west Nile sub Region and other parts of the country in the government strategy to compensate ...

Mother-baby death in Mparo and our national priorities

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 13, 20221 comments

#Musaasizi #Musasizi #Mparo #Maternal #mortality #Uganda

Diana & Xavier Musaasizi in happier days. (Photo courtesy of Xavier Musaasizi) A healthy 30-year-old woman was admitted to Mparo Health Centre in Rukiga District on Monday June 6 to deliver her second child. Artificial induction of labour was started that night. ...

Waragi, presidential gifts of cars, and the illusion of democracy

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 6, 20220 comments

#Democracy #Uganda #bribery #Bishop #Kigezi #Church

At the end of a drama-free political campaign and an election last week, Douglas Robert Ford Jr, the incumbent premier of Ontario, Canada, was re-elected with an increased majority in the provincial parliament. In his gracious victory speech, Ford invited his supporters ...

Opportunities and challenges for the new Bishop of Kigezi Diocese

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 30, 20220 comments

#Kigezi #Bagamuhunda #Akanjuna #Bishop

The Right Reverend George Bagamuhunda, who has retired from the office of Bishop of Kigezi Diocese, has earned a reputation for promoting income generating and job creating economic development, expansion of diocesan material assets, reconciliation and peace building, and acceleration ...

Memories of the early years of Kigezi Diocese

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 29, 20220 comments

#Rugarama #Kivengere #Zaaribugire #Zaribugire #Komunda #Mufuko #Kabaza

(An abridged version of this article was published in the Consecration Magazine 2022 of the Diocese of Kigezi) I was born at Kabale Hospital to a Roman Catholic mother and a Native Anglican Church father. My basic education at the Anglican Church founded schools - Kihanga ...

Sri Lanka’s corrupt dynastic politics and national ruin

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 24, 20220 comments

#Sri #Lanka #corruption #dynastic #politics #family #rule

Sri Lanka, once a land of promise, is now in ruinous self-immolation. Its most powerful ruler, Mahinda Rajapaksa, a close friend of Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa, is discredited by the very people whose adoration once fueled his visions of deity. Like Uganda, ...

On peaceful resistance and why I speak the truth to Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 9, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #peaceful #resistance #civil #disobedience #defiance

An online newspaper published an article about me last Tuesday, in which the author made false allegations that suggested deliberate disinformation or loss of the struggle with the English language. He was reacting to my column of Tuesday May 3 titled “Tibuhaburwa dynasty ...

Tibuhaburwa Dynasty still stoppable

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 3, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #Tibuhaburwa #Muhoozi #Kainerugaba

The imposition of the Tibuhaburwa Dynasty is now full steam ahead. General Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa’s contempt for the electoral regulations and military codes of the land will not be the last laws he sets aside in pursuit of his dynastic agenda. Obviously, in societies where ...

Tibuhaburwa Dynasty begins

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 25, 20220 comments

#Muhoozi #Kainerugaba #Museveni #Uganda #Rwanda #Rwabugiri #Ssali

The weekend-long, multi-venue festival, dubbed a birthday party for Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, was not a celebration of an event that happened 48 years ago. It was okwanjura (formal introduction) of the crown prince and heir to the Ugandan throne. With that kwanjura, President Yoweri ...

Christian revival is Uganda’s only hope for redemption

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 19, 20220 comments

#Corruption #Uganda #Christian #Revival #Bisamunyu

My friend Edward Nobel Bisamunyu, who died two months ago, was on my mind this Easter weekend. An astute observer of humanity and the world around him, Eddie hated hypocrisy. His letters, both private and public, were hard hitting commentaries on the double standards he encountered ...