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Dark days ahead for Uganda's media as Government pushes for draconian law

The advent of the Press and Journalist Act (Cap 105) in 1995 caused widespread objections and accusations that the government of Uganda was out to muzzle press freedom.  But just w...

NRM primaries: Museveni needs new building blocks

  The art of stealing an election. How to rig a poll. How to print your own ballots, tick them (in your favour of course, don’t be silly) and stuff them into the ballot box. Cash a...

Time for the President to get behind Uganda Cranes

In June 1994, [then] Germany Chancellor Helmut Kohl telephoned the national team coach Berti Vogts and told him he had kept his diary open for July 17 ^th , 1994 – the day of the Worl...

Uganda’s narrow roads: driving a car, with a bicycle mentality

Hypothesis one: the quality of roads in any country defines the quality of leadership in charge of that country. Nothing to do with democracy, or else a billion and half Chinese wi...

The English Premiership, Matthew Lucha and Yoweri Museveni

First the good news: the English Premiership is back, thank you Jesus! That brings into play the only rule I never break: every appointment of mine that coincides with the times...

July 11 bombings: Government taking wrong PR measures

It is understandable that after what Ugandans went through during and following the July 11 bomb attacks in Kampala during the World Cup final that killed more than 80 people, G...

Police brutality: Mr President, have you no shame at all?

In journalism, when we talk of a great story, is usually a horrific tale. And when we talk about beautiful pictures, you don’t want to see them. So when I tell you that the Nati...

African Union Summit: Africa’s problems all gathered in Kampala

That the African Union Summit is behind hosted in our own backyard here in Kampala, Uganda, is a great opportunity to do an ‘up, close and personal’ check on the leaders of w...

Uganda should not bow down to Al Shabaab

If September 11, 2001 is known in America as “the day that changed the world”; in Uganda’s case July 11, 2010 will forever be known as “the day that changed Uganda”. For Americans,...

NAADS: When your mother calls you a bastard

When a mother calls her child a bastard you can believe her. Not my words; just an old Jewish proverb. So when President Yoweri Museveni comes out and says the National Agricultu...

Water and electricity companies should not be commercially run

As lovers smile at each other and make vows they have no intention of making good, the waiters come in, laden with sizzling pork chops, French fries and fortified wines. The waiter...

Woza 2010: Why Uganda cannot host the football World Cup

Woza 2010: Why Uganda cannot host the football World Cup  By the time you read this piece, the FIFA 2010 World Cup will be well underway in South Africa. After all the noise and ch...

Employment creation: How Museveni is failing the Private Sector

Retirement at 50: Government has run short of ideas

The directive by President Yoweri Museveni that the retirement age for civil servants should be lowered to 50 years (from 60 previously) is possibly the most ridiculous initiati...

NRM and the Military: Museveni’s carrot and stick

And finally, the last word – for now – about the race for Secretary Generalship of the National Resistance Movement...

Amama vs Bukenya: It can’t be about just NRM

On Yar’Adua, Museveni's strength and Uganda’s weakness

So when news of the death of Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua filte...

Hi; we don’t bark, we never bite, we are NEMA.

Hands up, if you ever heard of something called the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA)....!

Okay. Now, hands up if you think they know what they are doing…!

See what...

How long before Mugisha Muntu returns to NRM?

Friends of mine whom I hadn’t met in a long time picked me from office for a coffee, April 17, 2010. They were in incredibly high sp...

Museveni debating with Besigye? You must be kidding!

I read Enock Kiyaga’s commentary “Presidential candidates should hold televised debate” (Daily Monitor April 15, 2010) in a very unorthodox fashion. When I checked the title of the...

Like Japan, Uganda should invest in peace, not war

I doubt we should spend time debating whether or not Uganda purchased Russian fighter jets. But it is a good opportunity to discuss the way forward for Uganda’s defence exp...

Rebuilding Germany: Lessons for Museveni and NRM

 I doubt any of you knows Jochen Collin; some good-natured old timer from a little German town that you never heard about. Never mind; point is that his words from 10 years ago w...

New York’s Waldorf Astoria and our rude receptionists

Namilyango College Day: Celebrating 108 years of great tradition

Buganda vs central govt: Sorry tale of difficult marriage

Bududa landslide disaster: Why Government doesn’t give a hoot

When disaster strikes, as journalists we are trained to be completely dispassionate. The rule is: just take the pictures and write a good story. If you feel like crying, you can d...

Election 2011: Mao is the best choice for the Opposition

Why the President should love Nandala Mafabi

The entry of Minister for Presidency into the race for Budadiri West Constituency in Bugisu – at the behest of the President – should not go...

Circumcision and HIV/Aids: Time to cut losses, mitigate damage

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The Indian question: It is possible for us to love and live together

Education: higher marks at school, less competence at work

A few days ago I sat with my good friend Solome Nakaweesi – the boss of Akina Mama wa Afrika – munching away at some salmon and pork which didn’t taste too bad, and reflectin...

New President? Okay, but where is your army?

Laughing loud and long is not my kind of thing, but there is a first time to everything. Must have been Tuesday this week on my daily early morning show Agenda 2011 on 98.5 Impact ...

FM radio stations: Time to consider mergers

Unmasking the lie: Circumcision, sex and HIV/Aids

A few days ago I found it necessary to restate my position, calmly and quietly, that my sons – two so far – should under no circumsta...

Uganda’s economy in the hands of just a few families

An American friend of mine – Max – recently returned to Uganda after a two year absence to carry out yet another series of workshop...

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Election 2011: DP must sober up and reinvent itself

In Uganda – just like in most corners of Africa – nobody dies an innocent death. It doesn’t matter that globally we have the worst i...

NSSF; time for Amama to pay the price

Futility of African Peer Review

For lack of a better word, we shall call it diplomacy; especially since it was an exchange between states on matters of mutual concern, but without gunfire. On another day it could...

Oh, these British so dumb and the Americans so daft!

You wonder how David Cameron the Conservative Party firebrand who, barring a miracle, is expected to succeed his opponent Gordon Brown as British Premier, was allowed to fly to Af...

Angry Amin Takes Revenge (Entebbe Raid Part 4)

The Monitor published a four parts series to mark the 21st anniversary of the Entebbe Raid. The following article, published July 7th, is an edited report of how dictator Idi Amin ...

Kazini: Police equipped to crush riots, not to investigate

Keep Uganda’s economy out of Gaddafi’s hands now!

Last week “Objection!” submitted that Uganda ought to be wary of increased Chinese and Arabian investments in the regi...

Uganda getting mired in economic ‘cold war’

Uganda’s economy needs more government prudence

IGG: The Justice shall live by Faith!

The Rabbi whose congregation does not want to drive out of town is not a Rabbi. And the one they succeed in driving out is not a man. Clearly the Jews have the answer to the ...

Mainstream churches vs mushrooming ones

Protea Hotel; money and brains meet class

The world’s true top diplomat

One of the fans of this column, Jimmy Rujumba asked me to follow up my critique of Obama’s famous Accra speech, with a comment on the role of the US versus that of the UN.

No better...

President v Kabaka: Making a statement with crowds

: Lousy houses: Where are Uganda’s architects?

New York and Bloomberg, Ssebaggala and Kampala

  Americans will tell you that the most difficult jobs in the world are two. First, obviously is being President of the United States. Second is being Mayor of New York, America’s l...

Blood over Kabaka, Kayunga and Kaguta: It ain’t worth it

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Obama’s speech: American deception and hypocrisy

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Buganda Crisis: Critical reflections on the media’s mistakes

There is an old tailor man in Kampala that I have never forgotten.

Must have been about 1997 or thereabouts. I had bought this pair of jeans which I thought too baggy and asked him...