The day lands Minister Betty Amongi stormed Amuru bristling with state power in her second attempt to forcefully survey land for sugarcane growing after a botched first assault, a journalist covering the affair told me cowed locals on seeing boots bolted for the bushes or hid in their huts, popping out to ask the journalist, […]

When you watch on TV Arua municipality’s Member of Parliament Ibrahim Abiriga or Kasanda County’s Simeo Nsubuga let out war cries in their surge to rip off the untested age limit from the pages of the 1995 constitution, what do you sense as their true driver? In power for a cool 31 uninterrupted years, a […]

Every time a ”new wave” sweeps our politics, as singer-turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu aka Bobi Wine has done in the Kyadondo East parliamentary by-elections, progressive pundits scramble to interpret and assign it meaning and implication, often using a prism that interprets the wave as fresh energy in the fight against the hegemony of long-ruling […]

Tuesday evening, a list, purportedly of appointees in Museveni’s endlessly long and fat cabinet did the rounds online. Ever the eagle-eyed, Uganda’s chattering social media users were quick to note that the name of one prominent ‘‘minister’’ was missing on the list: Beatrice Anywar, the chameleon Kitgum municipality Member of Parliament. When you speak to […]

Financial support for bed-ridden Nanga maestro Ogwang Phillip Clipper has come in bits from far and wide; from the known and unknown; from the prominent and less prominent; from within and outside Uganda. The support is towards meeting the medical bills of the Nanga star with more than 430 songs to his name in a […]

If all goes as planned, the biggest hut in the world could in future be found in Gulu district. ‘‘In my 40 years of structural engineering, I have never built a hut of this size,’’ said Paul Flemming, a structural engineer from Arkansas in the United States of America. Mr Fleming was on Friday evening […]

In his prime no one sang and played Nanga as sweetly as Phillip Ogwang Clipper.  If you an Acholi and a Nanga music lover, and you are hearing for the first time that Clipper is also Phillip that is because Clipper has always been Clipper. Even now when his frail body is ravaged by old […]

By accounts of the government -funded Uganda Human Rights Commission, the Uganda police has consistently topped the notorious list of human rights violators for the last about 15 years. Uganda’s formal and informal security agencies have had a long and well-document history of rights violations. From the late Brig Noble Mayombo’s torture chambers euphemistically named […]

A fortnight ago, I participated in the ‘‘Gulu Go Green Marathon’’, an initiative by the nonprofit, CEED. Now in its second year, the run is meant to encourage tree planting and conservation of the environment. The Minister of state for northern Uganda, Grace Freedom Kwiyucwiny was the ‘‘chief runner.’’ The night before the run, I […]

By now you should know that Africa is one dictator less. Yahya Jammeh, after two decades atop tiny Gambia is no more. The eccentric tyrant is off the swing of power. His desperate but ultimately fruitless attempt to cling on came to naught after ECOWAS, the West Africa bloc, threatened to bomb him out. Seeing doom […]