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
This appears to be a week to revisit Uganda’s oil sector. There is a lot to discuss here over the next several
In the midst of debate over saving Uganda’s most prominent forest, Mabira, stories are emerging over the high cost of charcoal, the
Some time ago ( sounds like once upon a time) this writer was interested in the portraiture of Ugandan society. Since we
So Makerere University is closed. It is likely to be a short shut down. In fact it should not. The NRM government
Many of my generation, my friends and intellectual buddies have been surprised that decades after independence, after colonialism and neo-colonialism have been
Peter Waldron, the controversial American who re-appeared in the news as an advisor to US Republican candidateMichelle Bachman is no doubt an
24th/August“Ameya” sounds like “ a mayor”. Or perhaps “ Lordi Meeya” (Lord Mayor), Kampala’s ceremonial head, Erias Lukwago, the flamboyant and sometimes
The legal and humanitarian canvas in Uganda these days’ bear smudges of the kind that many a human rights activist- or world
Rain in Kampala is a beautiful thing depending on where you are sitted. If you are in Bwaise, one of the slums
Politicians have repeatedly told my colleagues and me about mysterious “bags of cash” that their colleagues, business people are “hoarding” in their