Muniini K. Mulera

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 ...

Eddie Bisamunyu had a romantic attachment to a bygone Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 5, 20221 comments

#Bisamunyu

Photo: Right to left: Eddie's father, Eli Nathan Bisamunyu (Uganda) and John Malecela (Tanzania). It is more than a month since my dear friend’s sudden death in his home in Kabaare. I remain incredulous that Edward Nobel Bisamunyu, younger than me, and still ...

Why did Peninnah Kyoheirwe Ngategize die?

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 11, 20220 comments

#Ngategize #pulmonary #embolism #CorSU #ICOB

Photo: Peninnah Ngategize July 27, 1958 - April 5, 2022 When Peninnah Kyoheirwe Ngategize entered CoRSU Rehabilitation Hospital at Kawuku, Kisubi on Sunday April 3, she expected to return home within days of undergoing planned surgery on her knee. Dr. Peter Ngategize, ...

Sublime viola da gamba music of Marin Marais played by Jordi Savall

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Classical MusicApril 3, 20220 comments

#Marin #Marais #Jordi #Savall #Frech #music #Baroque

Marin Marais (1656-1728) was a French composer of music and the supreme master player of the viola da gamba whom history remembers for two key accomplishments: He composed some of the most beautiful music of the Baroque period. He biologically fathered 19 children with Catherine ...

No, Oulanyah was not poisoned

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 29, 20220 comments

#Oulanyah #Lokori #Uganda #Mulago #poisoning #Opiyo #Oloya

Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah died of a devastating natural disease. He was not poisoned. How do I know? Dr. Opiyo Oloya said so. When Opiyo Oloya speaks, I listen. When he tells me something, I know it is true. When he knows the truth, he speaks with confidence. When ...

Honour Oulanyah by addressing why he died in a distant land

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 22, 20220 comments

#Oulanyah #Lokori #Uganda #Mulago

The premature death of Jacob L’okori Oulanyah, Uganda’s speaker of parliament, a few days shy of turning 57, has dampened my spirit. Another human being, a fellow citizen, silenced by ruthless death, reminding us of our mortality. Oulanyah’s status in ...

Mingus Ah Um/Charles Mingus: Indispensable Jazz

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicMarch 19, 20220 comments

#Mingus #Jazz #Bass

MINGUS AH UM/Charles Mingus Columbia CS 8171 Recorded May 5-12, 1959, Columbia 30th Studio, New York City Released October 1959 My copy is a reissue by Classic Records in 1995 - 180 gm Musicians: Charles Mingus – bass, piano Horace Parlan – piano ...