Kampala, Uganda | URN | President Yoweri Museveni has approved a state burial for celebrated Ugandan playwright, actor and director Alex Edward Kabangala Mukulu, who died recently at the age of 72. Mukulu will be laid to rest on August 20, 2026, at Kijabijjo in Gayaza, with the government and his …
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The death of another iconic Ugandan playwright is a funeral for Ugandan theatre COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | Alex Edward Mukulu Kabangala has joined Byron Kawadwa, Rose Mbowa, John Ruganda, Elvania Zirimu, and Robert Serumaga in death, or perhaps in eternity as the memory of Uganda’s artistic expression …
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OBITUARY | HENRY MUTEBE | When news of Alex Mukulu’s death came on August 15th, many Ugandans remembered the tough judge they had watched on Yolesa Ekitone on Bukedde Television. They remembered the blunt man who rarely massaged words, the judge who could stop a performance midway and tell …
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ALEX MUKULU EXITED THE STAGE -THE BALL IS STILL ON THE PENALTY SPOT. OBITUARY | PATRICK OYULU | I am Patrick Oyulu, and you? “My name is Tony Kasule,” he replied. That was my introduction to my new roommate in B1-6, Lumumba Hall, Makerere University, in 1992. I was …
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