Is General Muhoozi Kainerugaba the lodestar of anti-corruption leadership in Uganda?

Is General Muhoozi Kainerugaba the lodestar of anti-corruption leadership in Uganda?

There is now no doubt that General Muhoozi Kainerugaba has been a fast-rising star in the military and in Uganda’s politico-military status quo. As I stated above, his rise in the army was fast-tracked by the President.

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Uganda hurtling to new monarchised military: From Obote ‘Original Sin’ to soldier-king in the making

Uganda hurtling to new monarchised military: From Obote ‘Original Sin’ to soldier-king in the making

This was the political status quo on October 9, 1963, when CWRU was renamed Uganda, and its governance placed in the hands of an Executive Prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote, and a ceremonial president, Sir Edward Muteesa II, and ceremonial vice-president, Sir William Wilberforce Kadhumbula Gabula Nadiope II.

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Museveni beware: Public distrust in authority has led to significant rise of charlatans as ‘thought leaders’ in Uganda

Museveni beware: Public distrust in authority has led to significant rise of charlatans as ‘thought leaders’ in Uganda

The marketplace of ideas model remains faithfully wedded to a neoclassical view that depends on a perfectly costless and efficient exchange of ideas, but also remains vulnerable. Blocher, by addressing the “economic” objections to the marketplace metaphor, attempted to better describe, explain God and rehabilitate the marketplace of ideas.

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How digital democratisation of intellectualism makes it easier for Ugandan thought leaders to ventilate in face of repression and subjugation

How digital democratisation of intellectualism makes it easier for Ugandan thought leaders to ventilate in face of repression and subjugation

Winick has recently explained the difference between a thought leaders and Philosophers. Philosophers think deep thoughts about ideas. Thought leaders lead in converting an idea into reality. The ability to take your ideas, create content and shape products that help others solve their toughest problems is at the heart of thought leadership – and so is market viability.

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Remanded Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s new party People’s Front for Freedom launched

Remanded Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s new party People’s Front for Freedom launched

Besigye, a physician who retired from Uganda’s military at the rank of colonel, is a former president of the Forum for Democratic Change party, for many years Uganda’s most formidable opposition group. He has long been a fierce critic of Museveni, for whom he once served as a military assistant and personal doctor.

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Uganda’s theatre of the absurd: How father and son’s ‘bicameral presidency’ threatens to fight corruption, then feeds it

Uganda’s theatre of the absurd: How father and son’s ‘bicameral presidency’ threatens to fight corruption, then feeds it

In an interview broadcast on October 17, 2022, and cited by Liam Taylor (2022), President Tibuhaburwa Museveni said that his son “should not and will not” tweet about partisan politics. The next day Kainerugaba tweeted that “I am an adult and NO ONE will ban me from anything”. Muhoozi talk has been weaponised. It could one day push the regime – and Uganda – to the brink.

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Uganda presidential election: Museveni gunning for five decades – not five years – in power to fight official corruption he’s part of

Uganda presidential election: Museveni gunning for five decades – not five years – in power to fight official corruption he’s part of

The opposition says hundreds of their supporters disappeared or were killed during the last presidential election in 2021 when musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine presented the biggest threat yet to Museveni’s reign.

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