Failed state: Irony of Uganda being $12 trillion rich in gold but proud to export slave labour to Middle East

Failed state: Irony of Uganda being $12 trillion rich in gold but proud to export slave labour to Middle East

In any case behind every problem is the problem of leadership and, by extension, governance. The decisions the leaders and governors take or do not take, the choices in governance that the governors prefer to apply in governing a country and its resources (human and non-human); how they govern ecological-environmental systems on which all other systems depend for their structures, functionalities and futurities; and the administrative styles and practices

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Stamping out corruption is Museveni’s pet topic, but it remains Uganda’s epitome as long as he’s in power  

Stamping out corruption is Museveni’s pet topic, but it remains Uganda’s epitome as long as he’s in power  

There is every indication that President Tibuhaburwa Museveni will make corruption a pet topic as long as he remains president. He will promise heaven on earth in stumping it out. However, increasingly many Ugandans are convinced that corruption is integral to NRA/M and its government.

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Stolen right to land: Why are young Ugandan graduates joining risky slave labour in Middle East?

Stolen right to land: Why are young Ugandan graduates joining risky slave labour in Middle East?

What we are seeing is a volcano waiting to explode. The grabbed land belongs to Ugandans, not the grabbers. Tomorrow Ugandans will grab it back to themselves from those pretending to be the owners of the land. The graduate slaves, will one day come to the realisation that their generation has been cheated, exploited and wasted. It will be like the slaves of USA who struggled to free themselves.

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Why Uganda needs ‘Most Notorious Failures Museum’: The good and bad of 38-year presidency

Why Uganda needs ‘Most Notorious Failures Museum’: The good and bad of 38-year presidency

Unfortunately, politicisation and militarisation of everything possible has become the norm rather than the exception in Uganda. In many cases, hypothesis testing and exploratory testing are eliminated and what is desired is implemented, often at very high cost in terms of energy, time, money, justice and development.

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Obote to Oboteism, Amin to Aminism, Museveni to Musevenism: Sabotaging constitutionalism in Uganda

Obote to Oboteism, Amin to Aminism, Museveni to Musevenism: Sabotaging constitutionalism in Uganda

Resistance to President Milton Obote’s second reign almost immediately meant that he had no time to reintroduce the Common Man’s Charter nor revitalize his social programme. There were many human rights violations, but most of these could have been by his armed opponents trying to convince the people that Obote’s regime had no capacity to assure their security.

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France’s bloodhound Napoleon Bonaparte and Uganda’s Museveni may have lived in different epochs, but are every inch similar

France’s bloodhound Napoleon Bonaparte and Uganda’s Museveni may have lived in different epochs, but are every inch similar

Napoleon Bonaparte and Tibuhaburwa Museveni have both been referred to as militaristic dictators who relied more on the gun to rule and extend their military adventures in neighbouring countries, but were such adroit rulers that they couched their dictatorships in democratic cover to conceal their excesses in the exercise of power and authority in the countries they ruled.

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Busoga in eastern Uganda is known to be richer with gold than Congo, but why is it poor?

Busoga in eastern Uganda is known to be richer with gold than Congo, but why is it poor?

Our education system is a success story in producing a selfish elite that is so individualistic that expecting it to be holistic in thought and action would be overstretching it, or expecting too much from it.

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By harping on ‘modernity’ and ‘modernisation’ President Museveni has found nebulous reason to rule Uganda

By harping on ‘modernity’ and ‘modernisation’ President Museveni has found nebulous reason to rule Uganda

As part of the strategy of globalisation and modernisation, President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government, like many other governments, did with their countries, integrated Uganda in the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

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Uganda’s politically burdened judiciary is a slave of the executive and incapable of serving justice

Uganda’s politically burdened judiciary is a slave of the executive and incapable of serving justice

Indeed political interference in judicial processes has been the rule rather than the exception. By the Constitution assigning the power of appointment and approval to the president of Uganda, it created a straight avenue for the Executive to interfere in the workings of the judiciary.

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Transdisciplinarity: Integrating certified and non-certified experts, stakeholders and practitioners in one spectrum of thinking and action

Transdisciplinarity: Integrating certified and non-certified experts, stakeholders and practitioners in one spectrum of thinking and action

Specifically, to be certified is to be officially recognised as possessing certain qualifications or meeting certain standards. The standards met might be for a diploma, a first degree, a second degree or a third degree in any disciplinary, crossdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary or extradisciplinary undertaking in education.

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