COLUMNISTS

By Andrew M. Mwenda Our continent needs to focus on its positive attributes and use those to inspire future generations The definitive clash of wills during the Second World War that paved the way for the defeat of Nazi Germany was the battle of Stalingrad. Soviet leader Josef Stalin had …

By Flavia Nassaka 2016 general elections could record the lowest voter turnout ever According to the latest revised roadmap for the 2016 general elections, the polling date for the President and Members of Parliament has been set for February 12, 2016. While that might be certain, what is now worrying …

By Patrick Kagenda On May 30 before Olara Otunnu, the UPC outgoing president, went to bed, news had come in that his arch rival Jimmy Akena had overwhelmingly won the party primaries.  Otunnu could not believe what he was being told until the following day when the party electoral commission …

By Angela Merkel and François Hollande A call for a fundamental shift to low-carbon infrastructure, technologies, land use France, incoming Presidency of COP 21, and Germany, Presidency of the G 7, are firmly decided to take all efforts to reach an ambitious, comprehensive and binding UN climate agreement by the …

By Christine Mungai Weighing in on Africa’s troubles with democracy and prosperity I once heard a saying that if elders are having a serious meeting and a little boy wanders too close by, the old men will chase him away faster than his legs can carry him. But if a …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Exposing the hidden bias behind our obsession with Western goodness and Africa’s dysfunctions The greatest triumph of the colonial state was not the integration of our economies and social/political systems into the international capitalism system. That could have been achieved without colonialism and via free trade. …

By Patrick Kagenda Son of founding father promises to return party to `sound footing’ Two weeks after he was allowed to contest for the party presidency, Jimmy Akena appears set to follow in the footsteps of his father, UPC founding father and two time former Uganda president; the late Milton …

By Ian Ortega To love the President, we must close one eye to his failures and open both to his achievements Every person has a utopia that they create in their minds. Deep in their minds though, it doesn’t seem one, it seems achievable. Yet, when the winds of reality …

By Andrew M. Mwenda What FDC needs to do to reinvent itself and generate morale among its supporters After his defeat in this month’s elections, Ed Miliband did the honourable thing and resigned the leadership of the British Labor Party. Miliband followed an evolving tradition of unsuccessful political party leaders …

By Charles Onyango-Obbo About free markets, democracy, and why world peace might be bad I am writing this letter directly to you Andrew Mwenda. First, to say, I am glad that you are now like the prodigal son who is – kind of – returning home.  For a few years …