How the world’s most powerful nation has been beaten by a third rate power it has sanctioned for 47 years THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Karl Von Clausewitz, the great 19th-century Prussian military strategist and general, said that “war is politics by other means.” What …
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What Uganda can learn from countries that enjoyed industrial transformation THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | My friend, Ellison Karuhanga, wrote a brilliant defense of President Yoweri Museveni’s policy of allocating state benefits to private companies in pursuit of Uganda’s industrial development. He argued that the president’s critics …
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How I share the president’s vision even though we disagree on the details in its implementation THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | I was on a flight to Beijing when President Yoweri Museveni published his “missive” against my criticism of his policies supporting private businesspersons with government …
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How the abuse of the public trust through looting of public funds is going to cause a terrible backlash at the perpetrators THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has been tweeting his frustration with mass and endemic corruption in Uganda’s public sector. Many …
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How youth in a small town in Uganda answered Gen Muhoozi’s call and its implications for our country THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | On April 26th, I met a team of PLU activists from Hima, an industrial town in Kasese District. They rented a minibus …
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How Uganda came so late and lonely to acquire a cash and carry government where every citizen is for themselves THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | My column last week titled “When illness strikes a leader” attracted a lot of attention and commentary. In it, I …
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How Museveni’s eighth decade on earth, fifth in power, is placing Uganda’s future at a big risk THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | A Ugandan “businessman” called David Senfuka recently went to President Yoweri Museveni with a proposal. He told our president that he (Senfuka) had …
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US troops before leaving Afghanistan. One of many countries American presidents have invaded to achieve their war plans How the war against Iran is not a Trump creation but a deep-seated American way of doing things THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | US President Donald Trump campaigned on …
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How a once shattered country has become a beacon of hope for the rest of Africa THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Tuesday, April 7th Rwanda held commemorations marking 32 years since the beginning of the genocide that killed over a million of its Tutsi citizens. It is a …
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How our government’s borrowing and spending is putting our country at the risk of default THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | In a recent podcast of Bad Natives, I argued that there is a real risk of Uganda defaulting on her domestic bonds in two to …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
