How Israel’s plan to enter Gaza ignores the lessons of history and will only lead to tears THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Israel is preparing a ground invasion of Gaza in a vain effort to destroy Hamas. It is incredible how stupid human beings can be, especially our inability to …
Read More »Aging Museveni rides on his past heroics
His government has had to create routines and institutions that remind Ugandans of their recent history of brutality and killings ANALYSIS | DEREK R. PETERSON | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – Africa’s fourth-longest-serving head of state in 2023 – has cemented his place in history. He brought an end to two …
Read More »Russian history and the concept of ‘smuta’
How they shed light on Putin and Prigozhin – and the dangers of dissent ANALYSIS | DANICA JENKINS | In Russia, failed coups portend turmoil and collapse. They also herald greater repression, and a tightening of centralised control. This is because Russian history has swung back and forth between chaos and …
Read More »Kesiime and Kabasweka seeking history at Singleton Season 7
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sheila Kesiime and Peace Amooti Kabasweka made history in season 2 of the popular Singleton Match Play in 2018, winning this pair tournament for the first time. This Saturday Round 1 of the nail biting Match Play Challenge tournament swings into action at the …
Read More »BOOK REVIEW: Israel’s history of targeted killings
From the establishment of the State in 1948 to present day Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Reading Ronen Bergman’s Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations may require one to suspend any moral and ethical concerns to understand how the state of Israel evolved into the …
Read More »BOOK REVIEW: UPC’s Bossa gives new perspective into 1966 crisis
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It is improbable to list events that form a significant part of Uganda’s history and miss the 1966 attack on the palace of Kabaka Fredrick Mutesa II by the army under the command of then Col. Idi Amin Dada. Diverse accounts have been written in …
Read More »Headline: Why Is U.S. Media Blind to American War Atrocities?
COMMENT | NORMAN SOLOMON | On the first day of March 2022, visitors to the New York Times homepage saw a headline across the top of their screens in huge capital letters: ROCKET BARRAGE KILLS CIVILIANS It was the kind of breaking-news banner headline that could have referred to countless …
Read More »Most goals in the history of the FIFA World Cup
Doha, Qatar | Xinhua | Following are the all-time leading scorers at the FIFA World Cup: 16 goals – Miroslav Klose (Germany) 15 – Ronaldo (Brazil) 14 – Gerd Muller (Germany) 13 – Just Fontaine (France) 12 – Pele (Brazil) 11 – Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) 11 – Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany) 11 – …
Read More »Ugandan ‘Mayembe’ and Kanzu found in British Museum
Three experts in Cambridge to secure Ugandan historic artefacts Cambridgeshire, England | LOUIS JADWONG & AGENCIES | Ugandan charms (Mayembe) and traditonal wear (Kanzu) are among the items a team of experts visiting the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) in England have identified. They will be listed …
Read More »Rukikaire’s view of history
Former cabinet minister and NRA ideologue Rukikaire on politics and leadership BOOK REVIEW | Ian Katusiime | Mathew Rukikaire has seen it all. Born into an aristocratic family and educated in the best institutions that the colonial era could offer locally and abroad, Rukikaire has either made or participated in …
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