Lovers of published African literature, especially the short story sub-genre, must have come across a piece titled “A Mercedes Funeral” by celebrated Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiongo. The summary of that short story is that Wahinya, a bar watchman in the town of Illmorog, dies of alcoholic poisoning at a time when there is an election frenzy for the Member of...
What an energetic campaign it has been so far! On Thursday May 9th, President Museveni launched a nationwide drive to spur a serious conversation with leaders and the masses on the question of creating wealth and kicking out household poverty.
President Yoweri Museveni has said he is firmly behind the Makerere University administrations’ efforts to restore discipline to one of Uganda’s Highest and greatest institution of learning.
“Nawangwe is an Engineer, a professor of Technology and wants to restore discipline to this institution. People want to continue with buyayesism. Imagine a professor who stripes naked and is cheered on. Makerere is a centre of study not...
The 20th Ordinary Summit of the East African Community Heads of State finally happened in Arusha, Tanzania. With what seemed to have been false starts at the end of last year, seeing the summit deferred twice, this time it was serious business.
After over eight hours of a closed-door discussion at the sprawling Arusha International Conference Centre, the heads of state emerged to issue a 22-...
Greetings. I wish all of you Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2019.
As you may have been reading in some of the papers, the People and the Security forces have launched a limited counter-offensive against the criminals that have been robbing and terrorizing some parts of the country.
Fellow Countrymen and Countrywomen, especially the NRM Leaders
I am writing to clarify the confusion surrounding the Youth Programmes that I started putting in place in the Kampala area and also in the Rukungiri area and some other places.
Countrymen, Countrywomen, Bazukulu, investors and business people.
Recently, the traitors of Africa and the criminals have become very worried about the fast pace of development of Uganda.
Having had to struggle against the primitive fascists, the likes of Kony and ADF, not to forget the cattle rustlers from whom we captured 40,000 rifles, we also had to rely on our own resources to build the base of the economy (...