Dr. Crispus Walter Kiyonga could have been president. The medical doctor is a towering figure in the Movement of President Yoweri Museveni. He was responsible for supervising Uganda’s successful response to the Ebola crisis in 2000, the same year a religious fire claimed
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Drug dealers in Uganda’s capital city are the Uber generation. Attentive to the mood and movement of society they offer their services to fit the city’s hopes and nightmares. There is cocaine for the mid-level bank manager who wants a high to keep plugging away at her job – trying to keep rivals at bay.
One of the theories now “dismissed” in explaining the relationship between the
Tullow Oil has released its half-year trading statement. Its good news for
In December, my mother told me after a 4-year wait to have power extended to her retirement home in one of Uganda’s
Awangale Ssabasajja. The announcement that the “Buganda Kingdom” was gifted this “New Year “with a son- the second male son of the
Despite its high profile within the Ugandan press, the strike by Kampala traders association revealed familiar lessons without much progress on how
The granting of new licences, along with the setting up of institutions created by the Petroleum Bill, will be a test of
Whenever I have spoken to some of my colleagues and friends about South Sudan- the most optimistic ones have tended to be
One of Uganda’s most famous literary minds is the poet Okot P’Bitek. A nationalist, pan-Africanist and avid lover of song, word and
Excuse the long sentences. One of the final acts of the organisation that sustained the era of Emperor Haile Selassie was its
All the dancing on the graves of dictators being so fashionable nowadays has conjured up a merry scene of a gathering in
“brilliant polemicist” in reference not to Christopher Hitchens, who is dead now, but to another man of letters, Uganda’s own, Professor Mahmood
Before he put his seal on the Bukenya papers, Rafael Baku (his name in Madi means literally “not a human being” or