How for 63 years successive regimes in Uganda inverted political pluralism in favour of economic crimes they celebrate every October 9

How for 63 years successive regimes in Uganda inverted political pluralism in favour of economic crimes they celebrate every October 9

Uganda marked her 63rd Independence Day on October 9, 2025. At 76, I was one of the few people living in Uganda today who were old enough on October 9, 1962, when the colonial British government handed the instruments of power to Apollo Milton Obote. I was 12 years. We...

Read more
Unceasing fishing war: Kenyan fishermen on Migingo Island question continued harassment by Ugandan police

Unceasing fishing war: Kenyan fishermen on Migingo Island question continued harassment by Ugandan police

President Yoweri Museveni later alluded to this when he made his remarks sometimes back when he spoke about Migingo, an argument that was however dismissed by the Kenyan leaders in the National Assembly.

Read more
Veteran opposition leader Besigye denied bail by Ugandan court in treason case

Veteran opposition leader Besigye denied bail by Ugandan court in treason case

Kizza Besigye, who denies any wrongdoing, was forcefully returned to Uganda from neighbouring Kenya in November last year, and initially charged in a military tribunal, before his case was transferred to a civilian court.

Read more
Academic ageism, intellectual death and decline of public intellectualism: The making of Uganda intellectual cemetery  

Academic ageism, intellectual death and decline of public intellectualism: The making of Uganda intellectual cemetery  

Professors, as they expand the age range, point to positive aspects of ageism, which reflects that increasing age is not associated with negative aspects in the work environment. The aging professor is positively positioned as he is inserted in more postgraduate programmes.

Read more
How Museveni became Uganda’s Enemy No.1 in knowledge industry for rewarding natural sciences far better than humanities

How Museveni became Uganda’s Enemy No.1 in knowledge industry for rewarding natural sciences far better than humanities

Many people have wondered why President Museveni is emphasising natural sciences and related disciplines and fields and advocating against arts, humanities and social sciences when his background is in those fields, and when almost 99.9 per cent of the members of his government also have backgrounds in those broad fields of knowledge.

Read more
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.

Read more
Museveni’s science of self-preservation: How fear is driving Uganda president to stifle humanities in university curriculum

Museveni’s science of self-preservation: How fear is driving Uganda president to stifle humanities in university curriculum

The so-called scientists (those in the natural sciences and related disciplines and fields of knowledge and practice) do not traditionally challenge governments but pay more attention to their work in the laboratories and the field, presumably discovering, creating and innovating.

Read more
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.

Read more
Listen, President Museveni: Governance without ecological, ecosystem and sustainability mindset is crime against Uganda

Listen, President Museveni: Governance without ecological, ecosystem and sustainability mindset is crime against Uganda

Since 2009 I have committed time and energy to develop the collective public ecological, ecosystem and sustainability mindset of Uganda, East Africa, the Nile Basin, the Great Lakes Region, Africa and the world.

Read more
Museveni’s recognition of Banyarwanda refugees as an indigenous group is a potential cultural, political powder keg  

Museveni’s recognition of Banyarwanda refugees as an indigenous group is a potential cultural, political powder keg  

One roadblock to resolution of the myriads of questions, crises or disputes in our environment is that there is no national consensus that they exist. What is happening is to postpone to the future. The constitutional recognition of Banyarwanda by the Uganda Constitution 1995 as one of the indigenous groups of Uganda is not only despising Ugandan indigenous groups but also a recipe for future conflicts, chaos and violence in our environment.

Read more