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 […]

Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) National Deputy Mobilizer Oola Dan Odiya was on Thursday morning re- arrested by armed men from inside the Gulu court premises shortly after the Director of Public Prosecution ceased proceedings against him and two of his co-accused. Mr Odiya and the two others—Otto Kenneth and Ojok Sam Oboma were charged with […]

In Adam Hochschild’s ‘‘King Leopold’s Ghost,’’ there is a chapter titled ‘‘Journalists won’t give you receipts.’’ King Leopold II was the shrewd, deceptive and megalomaniac King of Belgium whose barbaric misrule of the Congo left, according to estimates, 10 million Congolese dead and countless more limbless. A pretentious Leopold had in the 18th century scramble […]

Kenneth Akena Watmon was buried in Kitgum on Wednesday last week. The burial marked his final journey on earth at the young age of 33. The man who allegedly pulled the trigger that let out a bullet(s) which cut Akena’s life is a Mathew Kanyamunyu, a businessman. The cause of the shooting was reportedly a […]

Unthinkable as it seemed at the beginning of the American presidential campaigns, Donald John Trump is the president- elect of the powerful United States of America. Only days before voting, President Obama derided Trump as a man who could not be trusted with his own Twitter account. At the time media reports had emerged that […]