Uganda, May 11 -- I pick up from where I left last week. It is difficult to summarise an academic book of more than 300 pages in one newspaper column, so that is not what I will do here. As I flagged ... Read More
Uganda, May 4 -- On Monday, we launched a new book titled Autocratisation in Contemporary Uganda: Clientelism, Coercion and Social Control. The book is an anthology for which I had the distinct pleasu... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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