Uganda, April 21 -- Last week, the General Court Martial (GCM) at Makindye, Kampala, for the third time, refused to grant bail to 28 prisoners; young men and women of the National Unity Platform (NUP)... Read More
Uganda, April 13 -- Eastern Uganda. Going to the tiny, jumbled and dry, windswept excuse of a town that Butaleja is, you have to cross the railway four times, if you make a north-easterly approach alo... Read More
Uganda, April 7 -- Many Kampala lawyers don't particularly like to handle criminal cases; and that is how I got this one - via a late night call from a lawyer friend. I had to drive 320km to get to a ... Read More
Uganda, March 31 -- It's Easter, so, move over, politics! The question people ask me most is, what should I do, to write.well? When someone asks a question like that, you know that is a writer! Real ... Read More
Uganda, March 17 -- When you spend six years in one school, it becomes home and, try as you might, you never really leave; even after 30 or so years. That was the feeling early morning, Monday this we... Read More
Uganda, March 10 -- Sometimes you leave your opponent with no choice but to win. I watched the Manchester derby last weekend with a sad shake of the head from start to finish. After a decent first qu... Read More
Uganda, March 3 -- Between the years 1010-990 BC, a brutal king from the land of Ammon (present day Jordan) laid siege to Israel, at a time when Israel was still finding its soul and was, therefore, m... Read More
Uganda, Feb. 25 -- Maybe I should have begun by correcting myself on the title above: it is not that government is paying Arts teachers less money as such.rather that it is paying Science teachers mor... Read More
Uganda, Feb. 11 -- The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." Did you hear that? No new thing un... Read More
Uganda, Feb. 4 -- Key word: Capitalisation. Key word: feudalism. Key word: merit. Key words: politicisation of the private sector, democratisation of access to public finance. Coming up shortly, here ... Read More