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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


Whose army is the Uganda People's Defence Forces?

Uganda, Feb. 24 -- The Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) has been in the news this week. Last week, the Commander-in-Chief, the all-powerful Gen Yoweri T Museveni, also known as the 'Ssabalwanyi' ... Read More


The travesty of patriotism

Uganda, Feb. 17 -- Something called the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) was reportedly launched recently, apparently to replace another rather bizarre outfit called the MK Movement. For the uninitia... Read More


Contradictions of Museveni's rule

Uganda, Feb. 10 -- President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni has a first-rate grasp of modern statecraft, but he also presides over an egregious form of state decay and dysfunction. From very early on, as... Read More


A new scramble for Africa?

Uganda, Jan. 27 -- Talk of renewed scrambling and jostling for a piece of the African continent has been around for a while in the media, academia and policy debates. What exactly is new in the scramb... Read More


Rethinking the Bandung NAM agenda

Uganda, Jan. 20 -- Uganda deserves congratulations. Whatever our political differences and strong objections to how the current government runs our country, when something good comes to town, it is wo... Read More


Thinking about our collective futures

Uganda, Jan. 13 -- The start of the year is a time of resolutions and predictions! Some analysts or specialists attempt peering into the future, but the socio-political world is so stubbornly elusive ... Read More