Kenya’s national assembly impeach deputy president, his fate now lies in the hands of senate
President William Ruto dismissed most of his cabinet and brought in members of the main opposition following nationwide protests against unpopular tax increases in June and July in which more than 50 people were killed. On Tuesday evening, Gachagua urged lawmakers to “search your conscience” before voting.
I’m because you are: How quest to restore my eyesight reminded me there are still some humane souls in depraved Uganda
Prof Waswa Balunywa allocated a driver, Mohammad Ali Kibirige, to me to ensure I was safe from Covid-19 through interaction with the public “in public transport”. The driver did not only take me to and from the hospital but also took me to my rural home in Luuka whenever I was through with the ophthalmologist.
Retired but not tired: Musings of Ugandan scholar who straddled environmental conservation debate in East Africa
My own experience after 15 years of being in retirement, is that it is more rewarding allocating time and energy in/to what you feel comfortable with. Don’t care what other minds tell you. Care about what your mind tells you. After all after such a long time on earth, and away from the real world, few will be able to change your mindset. But they may influence you to give up smoking, drinking and womanising or manising, which will not add value to your life and can reduce it to nothing.
Ugandan electorate pay price for voting in MPs bereft of decorum and revel in intellectual vacuum
When the good brains turn into merchandise for political ‘business’, what remains of the bad? When the good ceases to speak reason, what happens to the bad? When the good brains out their brains on market stoles, what happens to the bad? When the hunter turns into the hunted, what happens to the non-hunted? When educated elites turn into big time thieves, what happens to the petty street thieves? When the intelligent opposition assimilated by the ruling clique, what happens to the tenet of checks and balances? Is there still parliamentary democracy? Isn’t Uganda back to one party rule?
Refugee economy: How Uganda’s ‘small minds’ swapped heart and soul of Pearl of Africa for political capital
If President Tibuhaburwa Museveni agrees with his son that he steps down whenever that will be possible, then automatically the leader of PLU will be elected [resident of Uganda, whether Ugandans like it or not. Universal suffrage will be a thing of the past. The right of Ugandans to choose will be no more. This is a gigantic plot against Uganda and the indigenes of Uganda. It will the last nail in the coffin carrying the disempowered Ugandans.
Museveni shuts down Busoga Radio station in replay of Orwellian Ministry of Truth in further curb of Press Freedom
It will be terrible for Uganda today and tomorrow if the shutting down of Busoga One is tied to politics. However, if the President found the Station ethically and morally right but politically wrong, then we should begin to shed tears for Uganda.
Museveni’s white elephant: Touted as an economic springboard, Bujagali dam is yet to deliver electricity, has stymied indigenous cultures
When, therefore, government and its accomplices said that the spiritual and cultural issues of the Basoga had been resolved, they never provided evidence of consent by the clans of Busoga because they had never sought this consent from clan leaders. This was a blind spot in the Bujagali dam decision-making process, which seriously challenged its legitimacy.
Trouble with Uganda: We abuse land because as a community we regard it as our entitlement, therefore can defile it
Environmental racism, then, is a critical term that highlights environmental framings which disproportionally negatively affect people of colour (Dickinson, 2012) and advantage whites (Bullard, 2001). Environmental apartheid and environmental racism imply absence of environmental justice. People are pressed to the margins of nature where the ecology is unfriendly and hardly enjoy ecological health.
Jajja and Misambwa: Culturalists concur the guile Ugandan president used to defile totemic Bujagali Shrine is an indigenous rights crime
It is unbelievable that without being consulted by the clans of Basoga could have participated in consensus-building to bring about the extinction of the rich Basoga culture and spirituality. Even the living Budhagali whom proponents of the dam claim “agreed” that the shrines could be transferred has on several occasions pronounced itself to the “non-listening proponents” of the dam that he has no power to do so since the decision to move or not to move the shrines is spiritual rather than human
It’s likely ancient civilisation of humanity began at the source of River Nile in Busoga, Uganda, not Egypt
Indigenous peoples are and regard themselves as guardians and stewards of nature. Moreover, they invariably recognise linkages between health, diet, properties of different foods and medicinal plants, and horticultural/natural resources management practices – all within a highly articulated cosmological /social context (Hugh-Jones, 1999; Posey, 1999). The Basoga, therefore, should be seen in this light is vis-à-vis Budhagali falls. The Falls were a critical element in what can be called the sacred balance of the Basoga with nature.
