Muniini K. Mulera

Gun violence: when does the madness end?

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 21, 20190 comments

#Gun #violence #Uganda #Kimumwe #Nduhuura

Photo: Maj. Patrick Balati Kimumwe, Uganda Army (1965-1977) The year is 1974. I have gone to visit my sister, a student at the National Teachers College, Kyambogo, which is what the place is called before it becomes a university. Before I take my leave to taxi it ...

Shortcut journalism and Akorimo Kanuti’s fiction about Uganda’s Independence

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda HistoryOctober 14, 20190 comments

#Akorimo #Kanuti #Uganda #Independence #Uganda #flag #Obote #Amin #Iain #MacLeod #Walter #Coutts #truth #in #journalism

The New Vision, a Kampala English daily newspaper, carried a story on October 8, recycling claims by Maj. Akorimo Kanuti, a retired Uganda Army officer, about his roles at Independence 57 years ago. These claims have been recycled over the years by New Vision, Daily Monitor ...

Maj. Augustine Karugaba and Obote’s most consequential decision

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda HistoryOctober 7, 20190 comments

#Karugaba #Obote #Uganda #Independence #Sandhurst #Sarakikya #Hugh #Stott #Combes #Ibingira

There once lived a man called Karugaba ka Baatoora ba Rubango, better known as Major Augustine ‘Gus’ Karugaba. In my opinion, his story was one of the most consequential in Uganda’s journey from a British colony of promise to a blood-stained sovereign state where ...

Uganda@57: Change political leadership and culture

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda PoliticsOctober 1, 20190 comments

#Uganda #independence #Museveni #politics #leadership

Independent Uganda turns 57 next week. As usual, I have been scouring the newspaper reports from the critical period of 1961-1963. A news report by the Chicago Daily News Service, filed from Nairobi on March 15, 1962 caught my eye. Under the headline “Politics Is The Tail ...

Museveni, Kayihura free to invest anywhere they want

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 23, 20190 comments

#Museveni #Kayihura #Uganda #Foreign #Investment #Claire #Short

I enjoyed reading President Yoweri K. Museveni’s response to the American government’s sanctions against Kale Kayihura. I agree with him that banning a non-American from entering the United States is not a matter of life and death. Whereas I was disappointed that, ...

American sanctions against Kale Kayihura: Why him? Why now?

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 16, 20190 comments

#Sanctions #Kayihura #Uganda #Museveni

The news that the United States Government had sanctioned Kale Kayihura, the former Inspector General of the Ugandan Police Force, for serious human rights abuses and alleged involvement in corruption, left me greatly puzzled. No, I was not surprised that the Americans ...

Archbishop-elect Kaziimba's first challenge is to say no to State gifts

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 3, 20190 comments

#Church #of #Uganda #Kaziimba #Namirembe

The inspiring story of Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba, the Archbishop-Elect of the Church of Uganda, is the kind that triggers happy feelings and prayerful optimism that the church has chosen very well. Since its founding 142 years ago, the Anglican Church in Uganda has ...

Evelyn Anite: Omerta! You are part of the Mafia

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 26, 20190 comments

#Anite #Mafia #Museveni #NRM #Uganda

Evelyn Anite, Uganda’s Minister of State for Investment and Privatisation, is in a bit of a pickle. To be more culturally correct, she is facing the frightful consequences of putting her finger in the leopard’s anus. Understandably terrified by her predictable ...

Uganda's spectacular beauty and the ICOB Convention in the USA

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi TourismJuly 16, 20190 comments

#Kigezi #Kigyezi #Muhabura #Mugahinga #Sabyinyo #Bisoke #Karisimbi #Mikeno #Mikyeno #Nyamuragira #Nyiragongo #Neogy #Lapcek #Tourism #Uganda

(Photo: Ibirunga across Lake Mutanda © Muniini K. Mulera) I write from Kabaare, the town of my childhood and early youth, which continues to be misspelt as “Kabale,” a meaningless word that was imposed by this area’s colonial rulers a little over a century ...

Now the hard work begins for the Alliance for National Transformation

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 28, 20190 comments

#Alliance #Uganda #ANT #Uganda #Mugisha #Muntu #Uganda #politics

The Alliance for National Transformation was conceived by a group of serious men and women. Like a woman carrying a well-planned pregnancy, the team at the centre of the New Formation maintained a laser-like focus on the health of their foetus. The team carefully ...

Banyakigyezi Convention in the USA to promote Ugandan Tourism

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda TourismMay 21, 20190 comments

#ICOB #Uganda #Tourism #Kigyezi #Kigezi

The International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB) will gather in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA on August 1, 2019 for their Seventeenth Annual Convention. This year’s theme, “Innovation-Driven Tourism” will build on the ideas and strategies that were generated ...

Alliance for National Transformation is not Muntu’s party

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 29, 20190 comments

#Alliance #ANT #Uganda #Mugisha #Muntu

Kampala news media, including The Monitor, have run headlines announcing the formal registration of what they have called “Muntu’s Party.” Indeed, this has been the drumbeat since Mugisha Muntu, together with many colleagues, resigned from the Forum for ...

African Diaspora youth and the clash of cultures

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 9, 20190 comments

#African #Diaspora #cultures #Uganda

Pity the African child raised in the highly industrialized countries. Her heart and passions are in her parents’ homeland, but her world is far removed from the reality she encounters on her infrequent visits home. My favourite story about Ugandan Diaspora children is ...

Politicians' fear of shadows and our ever flowing tears

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 2, 20190 comments

#Ssebulime #Uganda #Police

Another Ugandan murdered in cold blood. His name, Ronald Ssebulime. At 39, still very young, with dreams and expectations that he will witness his grandchildren’s graduation from college. A widow, Ssebulime is said to have been a very devoted father, working ...

Save your money, live below your means and within your needs.

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 18, 20191 comments

#Saving #wealth #creation #Uganda

I receive many requests for financial assistance. Many of them are from complete strangers who either “know” me through my weekly column in the Daily Monitor or are my Facebook “friends.” I have been asked to fund education, graduations, weddings, house building ...

There is no quarrel between Ugandans and Rwandans

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 11, 20190 comments

#Uganda #Rwanda #Museveni #Kagame

Newspapers and other news media are perpetuating a falsehood that there is tension between Ugandans and Banyarwanda (Rwandans). In fact, there is no quarrel between the citizens of the two neighbouring countries. Obviously there is tension between the two countries’ ...