Muniini K. Mulera

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’ ...

Uganda, Rwanda: please make peace, not war

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 4, 20190 comments

#Uganda #Rwanda #War

The leaders of Rwanda and Uganda rarely tire of celebrating their greatest shared accomplishment, namely, the pacification of their respective countries after years of political and military instability. They boast, with justification, of their respective armies’ exploits in ...

Memories of a beautiful romance with Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 29, 20190 comments

#Museveni #NRM #Bobi #Wine #Uganda

Exactly 33 years ago today, while standing on the steps of Uganda’s Parliament, with the Holy Bible held high in his right hand, a young Yoweri K. Museveni took the oath of office as president of Uganda. The formalities dispensed with, the triumphant guerrilla ...

Museveni needs protection of foolish laws?

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 6, 20190 comments

#Museveni #Protest #Uganda #Justice

FROM THE ARCHIVES Museveni needs protection of foolish laws? By Muniini K. Mulera July 10, 2000 Dear Tingasiga: News that the police had laid charges against a group of Makerere University students for allegedly annoying the President was another ...

US Gun Violence on its way to Uganda?

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments

#Gun #violence #in #USA #and #Uganda

FROM THE ARCHIVES US Gun Violence on its way to Uganda? By Muniini K. Mulera March 6, 2000 Dear Tingasiga: The television screen came alive last week with yet more pictures of armed police officers with body armour, crouching behind trees and motor vehicles, ...

The president, his trusted adversary and a magnificent catastrophe

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments

#Museveni #Mbabazi #Uganda #elections #2016

Twenty years from now, my grandchildren will read with deep fascination a spell-binding account of a defining presidential election in which two former close comrades fought each other. They will read that the two men had enjoyed a long partnership leading a heroic struggle ...

Do not kneel before me, I am only a man myself

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 24, 20180 comments

#Christmas #Uganda #Christianity #Poverty #in #Uganda

Today, Christmas Day, church sanctuaries across the land will be full of worshippers, gathered together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The clergy will be seated at the altars or other distinct places of honour. Front pews will be reserved for what the world calls VIPs ...

Virtues of political colour blindness

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 17, 20180 comments

#Uganda #NRM #Political #colour

The first time I had an opportunity to choose my own clothes was in 1966 when my mother took me to Bachu’s, our favourite clothier’s shop Omugabahindi (in the Indian section) in Kabale Town. I chose a red T-shirt that had clearly been made with me in mind. It was the beginning ...

Uganda’s deep-seated culture of recklessness needs Rwandan-style treatment

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 3, 20180 comments

#Uganda #Road #Traffic #Accident

The latest major disaster on Lake Nalubaale continues to evoke incredulity among many Ugandans. How does one make sense of the recklessness that claimed the lives of dozens and created hundreds of orphans? Survivors’ stories and the Uganda Government’s investigations ...