In The Magazine

By Andrew M. Mwenda Over the last 50 years, public debate in Africa has been fixated on democracy or the lack of it as the primary cause of economic failure. Wars and elections have been fought over it; rebellions launched or quashed in its defence and coups have been carried …

By Jocelyn Edwards As she sits in the shade on a bench outside the police post in south Kampala that she works at, Vastine Kiconco touches one of the three and half inch long scars that mark her head.  Its been almost a month and a half since the police …

By Kalundi Serumaga Nigerian author Chinua Achebe tells us of a proverb questioning the judgement of a man who, while fighting a fire consuming his house, drops his bucket to chase the rats fleeing from the same flames. There are perhaps those who could defend such behaviour. Maybe the rats …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Police point at cycle of accidents peaking between July and New Year On October 26 presidential advisor on Religious Affairs Albert Byaruhanga died when his car knocked two pedestrians at Kyanda on Mubende Mityana road leaving one dead. In the same week, on October 21 two …

By Agnes Asiimwe Five heads of state, ministers and delegates from across the African continent met in Kampala last week for a special summit to deal with forced displacement in Africa. The meeting was convened to forge a way to avoid mass and forced displacement on a continent that already …

By Patrick Matsiko wa Mucoori The National Resistance Movement had no difficulty in supporting cultural revival. We had no difficulty because reviving the cultural institutions will address the following very important points’¦ It was of great significance that in the interlacustrine Bantu area, the kingdoms of Buganda, Bunyoro, Ankole and …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati & Matsiko wa Mucoori Contractors paid before signing agreements In January 2008, Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi gave the Auditor General James Muwanga a 30-day deadline to deliver audited accounts of expenditure on the Commonwealth Heads of State and Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Kampala in November …

By Onghwens Kisangala Three weeks ago, the British High Commissioner to Uganda, Martin Shearman who is the current chairman of the Partners for Greater Democracy and Good Governance, (PDG) a grouping of western embassies in Uganda, published donor concerns about the political developments in Uganda ahead of 2011 elections. The …

By Andrew M. Mwenda On October 16, 2009, Oxford’s Prof. Paul Collier gave a talk at Serena Hotel in Kampala on the prospects of an oil windfall in Uganda. Unlike in most of his work, this time Collier did not focus on how the international community (read the West) can …

By Odoobo C. Bichachi, Patrick Kagenda & John Njoroge A whopping Shs 900 million in cash under the pillow, in the mattress cover or somewhere in a wardrobe in the master bedroom! Wherever National Forestry Authority (NFA) executive director, Damian Akankwasa, kept his money, the revelation last week that his …