Uganda: Once the Pearl of Africa, it’s now the altar on which politics smothers environmental democracy

Uganda: Once the Pearl of Africa, it’s now the altar on which politics smothers environmental democracy

Unfortunately, over most of Africa, what I have so far written is obtaining. Some rulers stick to power and rule from abroad, but when elections are held, they win by over 90 per cent of the vote even when they do not interact with the citizens. A good example is President Paul Biya of Cameroon, one of the longest ruling leaders in modern Africa.

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African peace mission: One step forward in geopolitics, one step back in laying bare its underbelly?

African peace mission: One step forward in geopolitics, one step back in laying bare its underbelly?

The presence of the outgoing and current African Union chairs, Macky Sall (Senegal) and Azali Assoumani (Comoros), added political weight and legitimacy. And while the regional spread of the African states involved is commendable, why was a broader constellation of African interests not pursued?

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Bigmanity: How consumptive politics feed sterile love for money, stokes violence in Uganda and Africa

Bigmanity: How consumptive politics feed sterile love for money, stokes violence in Uganda and Africa

Often, where there is Bigmanity, money is pursued as a culture over and above traditional cultures. It is a sterile culture of money.  The culture of money in Big Man-run countries is always dirty. Money is dirty when it is sterile. Money is sterile when it is unfairly appropriated. This could be during budgeting when excessively huge monies are appropriated in ways that end up satisfying the big man’s wishes and choices that may have little to do with the country and its people. This explains why big men tend to become stinkingly rich after they have stayed in power for a very long time.

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It’s unlikely bloodthirsty generals will lay down arms, Sudan needs African Union boots on the ground

It’s unlikely bloodthirsty generals will lay down arms, Sudan needs African Union boots on the ground

The African Union (AU) established the Expanded Mechanism to connect disparate peace processes and drew up a roadmap for resolving the conflict. East Africa’s Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) adopted a similar roadmap and added Ethiopia to the delegation led by Kenyan President William Ruto.

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Re-ethnicisation of Uganda, suppression of opinion have rigged the Pearl of Africa into East Africa’s Museveni Inc

Re-ethnicisation of Uganda, suppression of opinion have rigged the Pearl of Africa into East Africa’s Museveni Inc

Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania – the founding members of the original East African Community – may have agreed to renew the spirit of East African regionalism but are so unlike especially in the way they pursue development, prioritise development and utilise their resources for development.

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How Uganda President Museveni shot down Lifestyle Audit tool, promoted theft to an economic enabler

How Uganda President Museveni shot down Lifestyle Audit tool, promoted theft to an economic enabler

Corruption has become a political weapon since there is growing evidence that many people are using it to acquire financial might for elective politics. The political motive has indeed complicated the fight against the corrupt who easily dismiss the IGG’s onslaught on them as witch-hunt.

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Clinging on guns: How children in a Chicago Black neighbourhood help swap guns for global citizenship  

Clinging on guns: How children in a Chicago Black neighbourhood help swap guns for global citizenship  

The Black blood drawn in these Northern non-Jim Crow states gave a region pretending not to be complicit in Southern white supremacy a bad look. So instead of continuing to use the Southern style of physical violence to put blacks in their place, government, and private real estate stakeholders used policy and private practices to sully black mobility. The North Lawndale community served as a case study for these actions. 

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Here’s why Uganda and Africa need leadership that gives environmental development priority

Here’s why Uganda and Africa need leadership that gives environmental development priority

There are aeroplanes too that can go thousands of feet out of the Earthly environment into outer space with people and goods, but like the high-flying birds that come back to feed and reproduce themselves, they must come down to deliver people and goods to their destinations, fuel and take others. According to Smithsonian Magazine dated July 17, 1962, American test pilot Robert White took the X-15 to an altitude of 314,688 feet (95.916902 metres). But it is Russian pilot Alexandr Fedotov who holds the world altitude record set on August 31, 1977, when his MiG E-266M reached 37,650 metres. He went and came back to our environment.

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Environment: Why it’s critical to align African politics and economic growth with cultural, moral, spiritual, ecological probity

Environment: Why it’s critical to align African politics and economic growth with cultural, moral, spiritual, ecological probity

Development is wholesome when the various dimensions of environmental development are given equal weight and integrated to achieve integrated environmental development. It is an abuse of environmental development if one aspect – in this case economic development – is pursued at the expense of the other types of development.

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Why Uganda has consistently failed to overcome ethnic nepotism and become a thriving democracy

Why Uganda has consistently failed to overcome ethnic nepotism and become a thriving democracy

The organisations in perspective are Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) and the Democratic Party (DP) both of which are the oldest parties in the country, and which were formed during the colonial times to agitate for Black rule and end to colonialism. Their top leaders have been conscripted to serve power and no longer provide meaningful leadership of their parties. There is no effective political development in these Parties anymore.

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