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Letter to Kizza Besigye at 68

Uganda, April 27 -- Dear Ndugu Dr Besigye, Greetings and belated happy birthday! I hope this note finds you well. It has been a while, so I look forward to the opportunity to compare some notes. In t... Read More


Letter to Kizza Besigye @68

Uganda, April 27 -- Dear Ndugu Dr Besigye, Greetings and belated happy birthday! I hope this note finds you well. It has been a while, so I look forward to the opportunity to compare some notes. In t... Read More


The politics of taxation and citizenship

Uganda, April 20 -- Kampala traders, who deal mostly in imported merchandise, are up in arms against a new move by the government to collect value-added taxes. Not for the first, but it had been a whi... Read More


Why cheap barbs on democracy are hypocritical

Uganda, April 13 -- The practice, not so much the ideal, of democracy has become a convenient punching bag for everything that has gone wrong in our world, but especially in countries like Uganda that... Read More


In pursuit of project Uganda-nation

Uganda, April 6 -- I argued last week that the biggest failure of our 1986 rulers is, by far, the failure to engineer a political community called Uganda, one to which we are attached by dint of a sha... Read More


Rattle of Musevenism and militarism: Another response to Dr Kabumba

Uganda, March 30 -- Last week, I sketched a rough draft against Dr Busingye Kabumba's argument for an ethnic-based federal system in Uganda, advanced in the pages of The Observer, a paper celebrating ... Read More


Case against ethnic federalism: A response to Dr Kabumba

Uganda, March 23 -- Writing in The Observer last week, Dr Busingye Kabumba of Makerere University's Law School, attempted to make the case for ethnic federal system in Uganda. The argument is slippery... Read More


The folly of forming a political party

Uganda, March 16 -- Sections of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), including its founding president, the indefatigable Dr Kizza Besigye, are reportedly mulling forming a new political 'outfit', a ... Read More


The price of democracy pretensions

Uganda, March 9 -- I prefer to more accurately call it a rulership, or more precisely a military regime. That is what we have in the Uganda of Mr Yoweri Museveni. But there is something else, arguabl... Read More


The poverty of our Parliament

Uganda, March 2 -- A small group of intrepid Ugandans have cast the spotlight on malfeasance and blatant corruption in the Parliament of the Republic - the 'People's House'. Twitter (now called X, a r... Read More