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, […]

Africa with a landmass of 30m Km2, twice the size of Europe, and with a population of 1.2billion inhabitants, is also the continent most afflicted with preventable incidences of violence and natural disasters that cause displacements. The consequences of violence alone, on displacement and human life are remarkable. The 2017 Global Report on Internal Displacement […]

In critical development, colonial legacy is synonymous with under-development of Africa. That a post-colonial Museveni is reproducing under-development by replicating colonial era economic exploitation approaches is quite surprising. When colonialism took root in Africa, its motive was to exploit Africa and its resources to feed European consumer capitalism. Indigenous Africans were valued only for labour, […]

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 […]

By Livingstone Okello- Okello Since I wrote to Ms Betty Amongi, minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development about two weeks ago, she replied to me through Whatsapp saying I should have sought clarification from her before writing the letter. With all due respect to the minister, I am old enough to know under what […]

Madam Minister, 1. You will recall that soon after your appointment to be in charge of the land docket, you gave me a call on 9th June 2016, requesting to have a chat and “tap your brains as someone who had worked in lands for a long time and is knowledgeable in land matters before […]

Until the advent of Structural Adjustment, the Uganda government provided quality and equitable universal health care and tertiary education. Under the liberal market milieu, both sectors are on a steady decline. Health care and education are critical aspects of the economy because they shape the human capital for economic development. A healthy and educated population […]

This weekend was an embarrassing one for the two-faced Opposition. They must be walloping in humiliation with the revelation by their chief-buyer that they sell and buy cheap in the political market, like vegetables. The cheapness of our Opposition is a matter of interpretation. It reveals the outcome of social transformation under the three decades […]

President Museveni came to power in 1986 and after 31 years, he feels deeply entrenched in power that he is now fused with the state. Uganda is Museveni and Museveni is Uganda. The plot to remove age limit to pave way for a life Presidency has illuminated greed and a sense of invincibility that makes […]

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 […]