Ugandans spend Labour Day unconsciously as simply another public holiday. Labour Day has a long treacherous history whose commemoration requires deeper and purposive reflections on understanding labour. The debate on labour has spanned generations, and yet no one ever explains the relations of labour to capital like Marx and Engels ever did. These analyses allow us time to place appropriate value on our everyday struggle for […]

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 […]

Mr. Fred Muwema’s litigation brought against the mysterious person called Tom Voltaire Okwalinga (TVO), in Ireland, is an interesting ghost chase. The case, many of you will remember, arises from post 2016 election as John Patrick Amama Mbabazi (JPAM) was preparing to challenge the fraudulent Presidential elections in Court. On morning of March 9, 2016, […]

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 […]

Dear Acholi Leaders; my leaders, I am writing for the very first time to you. Given the gravity of the subject, I humbly beg that you invest just few seconds of your rather busy schedule to scheme through this letter. This letter comes at a time when the online newspaper Acholi Times has reported a pending meeting […]

We learnt long ago that Political Parties are formed to vie for power and capture it. Once in power, the party must fight as much it can to retain power. The success of a political Party is judged by its abilities in retaining power. Parties criticizing the strategies of the other is only part of […]

In the last couple of weeks, Uganda’s media space has been awash with controversies and scandals, one after the other. The storm created by the powerful Byanyima family during the Kanyumunyu murder bail hearing, and Hon. Odonga Otto’s antics rivalled and suppressed the topical “Presidential Handshake” involving pillaging 6 billion Shs for officials of the […]

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 […]

When Ugandans woke up on the morning of November 26, 2016, all they heard, read and saw in the news were dead bodies, a burnt palace, and video clips of the Rwenzururu King, His Highness, Charles Mumbere arrested and dragged into custody like an ordinary chicken thief. Subsequent imagery coming out of the fiasco – […]

By David Martin Aliker Sunday, November 20th, 2016 marked a week since Akena Watmon, a child rights specialist was brutally murdered in cold blood. The President of the Democratic Party Hon. Norbert Mao opined an article, Individual responsibility for individual crime in the Daily Monitor. In his last sentence he mentions, “If the case is […]