THE LAST WORD

By Andrew M. Mwenda How the discourse on press freedom in Rwanda has missed the promising developments in that country Last week I attended President Paul Kagame’s lecture at Chatham House in London. It was without the usual hecklers i.e. mindless anti-Kagame fanatics. It attracted the more refined minds of …

By Andrew M. Mwenda It is a product of poor incentives rather than lack of professional competence The usual response of the international development community to public sector incompetence in poor countries is obvious – and makes sense. First they advise that we should put in place institutions of accountability …

By Andrew M. Mwenda An inside look at why the US has deployed its military to fight Ebola and Western media coverage of this “rescue mission” Over the last month, efforts to fight Ebola in West Africa, especially Liberia, have dominated the news on all international cable and satellite television. …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How Britain’s leading institution has lent its services to the deniers of the genocide against the Tutsi And so it was that after a couple of text messages I decided to spare an hour to watch a documentary by the BBC titled “Rwanda: The Untold Story”. …

By Andrew M. Mwenda If Mbabazi plans to challenge Museveni for the presidency of Uganda, he has begun on a wrong footing Since he was dropped from cabinet, speculation has been rife about what former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi is going to do. Will he challenge President Yoweri Museveni for …

By Andrew M. Mwenda I spent the first week of this month in Dubai. Now I first visited Dubai in 1996. It was, I thought then, a big city. I have since visited this desert town almost every year since 2002. But compared to today, the Dubai of 1996 was …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Why American media should listen to the views of Rwandans about freedom in their country A month before the Africa-America Summit in Washington DC, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda shuffled his prime minister (who was from the same Rwanda Patriotic Front political party as the president) …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Six reasons why Pastor Martin Sempa and his army of religious homophobes go against the teachings of Jesus Since the Constitutional Court declared the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) unconstitutional in a case where I was a petitioner, there has been a lot of hate mail against me …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How adherence to public procurement is inflicting high costs on the taxpayer and creating a disaster for the country Public procurement procedures have become a noose around the neck of Uganda. Over the last 16 years, nearly every major government contract or tender has violated some …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The opportunities and risks China faces as it begins its transition from middle income status to a rich nation I spent the whole of last week in China literally flying from one city to another – sometimes covering two cities per day. The speed of change …