Uganda

Introduction

A solution seems to have been reached under which the local communities will form an association and collect money among themselves to do their own re-stocking (as they have done in the past) without the help of vampire-investors.

Having concluded that Uganda’s electoral law is greatly flawed, the country’s supreme court ordered President Museveni’s regime to carry out extensive electoral reforms. The supreme court observed that electoral reforms are a prerequisite for free, fair, and credible elections.

President Yoweri Museveni’s New Year address was a study in presidential hubris.

In this essay I reflect on Ngũgĩ’s Wizard of the Crow in the context of larger issues that bridge literature and politics.  I argue that like all social studies, there is no neutral literature. Observers and writers on society – economists, journalists, novelists, etc.

When US ambassador Debra Malac left her office on 19 January 2018 to meet with Uganda’s disgraced Minister for Foreign Affairs Sam Kutesa, a number of options were open to her.

In the 1990s, post-war Uganda was restructuring the civil service. The country was awash with World Bank funds and donor grants for ‘re-tooling’ public offices, capacity building and rehabilitating infrastructure. At the time, short landings were the order of the day.

This is the season for gay pride parades. Some have already been held in Uganda, Germany and Denmark among other places. This also marks the beginning of the annual criticism of the lack of equal rights particularly in Africa.

One hundred million people around the world watched the viral video “Kony 2012.” Its evangelical Christian producers’ mission was to proselytize for the use of U.S.

The Prime Minister [Katikoro] of Buganda Kingdom was recently quoted as saying, “We are going to reject that law. Taking people’s land without their consent is an abuse of people’s rights on land, which we shall not accept”.