Day Baptist pastor derided Bob Marley as devil worshiper only for the Reggae artist’s ‘Amazing Grace’ to serve him a healthy dose of Jah love
Before Pastor Johnson could object, Bob began reciting from memory: “Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again.”
Uganda President Museveni initiates ‘coup-in-progress’ as he’s sworn-in for seventh term to give son reins of power
Army Chief Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the president’s son and presumptive heir, oversaw days-long rehearsals of the military parade that animated the inauguration of Museveni, with Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets flying noisily over official ceremonial grounds in Kampala, the Ugandan capital.
How stolen moments, secret letters and constant fear of forbidden love inspired Bob Marley’s ‘No woman, No Cry’ song
Sarah was crying, her hands pressed to her mouth. She’d obviously recognised the song’s true meaning the moment she heard it in this context, surrounded by thousands of people singing words that Bob had first whispered to her under starlight.
Senator Osotsi attack is rehearsal of assassination script borrowed from Tanzania and Uganda by Ruto administration
Senator Osotsi’s tragedy represents a step up in the ranking of targets by the Ruto-commanded terror gangs. Check! First, it was a “mere” mechanic shot dead in Kitengela in Kajiado County. Now it is a senator beaten to pulp like a dog.
Can Ugandans ‘reclaim our cultural capital, our ecological belonging and collective identity from Museveni before money curse renders us extinct?’
The weaponisation of money has systematically devalued these forms of capital. The elder who holds the clan’s history is now ignored in favour of the youth with a motorcycle purchased through political patronage. The community leader of proven integrity is overlooked for a leadership post because they lack the money to “grease the wheels” of the political machine.
Uganda: Where ‘biometrics of deceased voters’ and ‘ghosts’ vote for President Museveni and Electoral Commission deems it ‘democratic’
When the National Resistance Movement (NRM) captured state power in January 1986, President Yoweri Museveni – whom I shall refer to by his full clan name Tibuhaburwa – addressed the nation with words that have now acquired a bitterly ironic resonance. “No one should think that what is happening today...
Kizza Besigye: Case study in military justice and President Museveni’s rescindment of judiciary
Following the Supreme Court’s January 2025 ruling, Besigye’s case was transferred to a civilian court. The military charges were dropped and replaced with treason charges in the civilian system. Yet by the end of 2025, Besigye had been denied bail four times and had spent over a year on remand.
East Africa’s Ogre that eats own children: Museveni’s court martial and laying bear loopholes in Uganda’s 1995 constitution
The drafting history reveals that delegates agreed courts martial were indeed courts of judicature – but the history is maddeningly silent on whether they could try civilians.
Way Museveni’s abstract policies rendered indigenous Maragoli and other communities stateless in Uganda, nativised refugees
More fundamentally, the very presence of this parallel system enables the government to neglect its obligations to indigenous children, knowing that international sympathy will ensure refugee children are not entirely abandoned.
Same forest, different monkeys: Understanding Uganda’s stalled independence from colonialism
These fifteen nations – Buganda, Bunyoro, Toro, Ankole, Busoga, Bukedi, Bugisu, Teso, Lango, Acholi, Alur, West Nile (containing multiple ethnicities), Karamoja, Kigezi and Sebei – each possessed sophisticated systems of governance, distinct cultural identities and established mechanisms for maintaining peace and security among their peoples. The British did not come to develop these nations; they came to conquer, control and exploit them.
