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
Read More
One of the theories now “dismissed” in explaining the relationship between the neurological disorder known as “nodding disease” and its prevalence in the northern part of the country- is that it had anything to do with the war. One expert said it had nothing to do with war era ordinances. No bombs or other weapons
Drug dealers in Uganda’s capital city are the Uber generation. Attentive to
Garbage truck drivers and their crews may appear the least likely to
If the economy were a man (or woman) in say Mogadishu and the Ugandan economic crisis were a famine, the response by
I arrived at Nakawa High Court to a familiar sight of relative chaos. There are several damaged cars parked in the official
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