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Martha Karua – Standing on business and principle in a murky world of musical chairs?
This is the second post on my series on potential Presidents 2027 and beyond. These opinions are my own and are in no way associated with Kikao. Senior Counsel Karua […] More
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in Education and Academia, Fiction, Identity & Culture, Journalism and Media, Law, Crime and Justice, Politics and Government, Self-help and InspirationFrom Chapati to City Hall: The Rise of Zohran kwame Mamdani
It’s 3 a.m. in Astoria, Queens. The subway groans overhead like a tired lion. Inside a modest campaign office, a 34-year-old man with a faded Daily Monitor badge pinned to […] More
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EAST AFRICA: FEDERATION OR CONFEDERATION?
For a long time, the political talk of the East African Federation has reverberated on the region’s political scene but without resulting in the actual implementation of the scheme. Recently […] More
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Challenges In Articulating a Youth Agenda for Uganda
Since I joined the campaign for National Female Youth MP, I wanted to share with you some of the challenges I have observed in articulating a youth agenda for a […] More
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NOW THE PIGS SLEEP IN BED!
Sometime in the 1980s, a dream went around causing a lot of excitement in the Animal farm that had lived under teary times of one Man after the other. The dream […] More
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Close Look at AFRICOM and its Role in the Geopolitical Space
2024 saw the United States African Command (AFRICOM) make headlines after it was expelled from Niger on the 15th of September 2024. The unit operates under the United States Department […] More
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in Education and Academia, Environment & Climate, Identity & Culture, Law, Crime and Justice, Politics and GovernmentUGANDA: FROM GENOCIDE TO ECOCIDE TO ETHNOCIDE TO INTELLECTUAL DEATH
In Uganda, and perhaps in the whole world, we are more concerned about inflation, the economy, loss of political support, food security, commodity prices, physical security, academic standards, intellectual collapse, […] More
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UGANDA FROM TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE TO THE NEW TRANSCONTINTAL SLAVE TRADE
Transatlantic slavery was a popular phenomenon in international trade between the 15th and 19th Centuries. That time, Africa was enslaved and its people were a prized commodity to be bought […] More
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Remembering H.E. Lt. General Bazilio Olara Okello
Thirty-six years ago, on 9 January 1990, my family lost a father. Uganda lost one of her sons, H.E. Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello, a soldier, statesman, and former Head […] More
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France Aiding Morocco To Colonise Western Sahara
Uganda Solidarity Movement with Western Sahara is calling for the total liberation of Western Sahara, according to the leader of the movement in Uganda, the desert country is still under […] More
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On the salaries of Uganda Airlines Executives
It’s probably not a very popular opinion, but I’ll say it anyway. I’m both surprised and disappointed by the MPs’ (feigned?) surprise at the salaries of Uganda Airlines executives. While […] More
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WAMBA DIA WAMBA: I WANT TO HEAR / READ MORE ABOUT HIM
The first time I heard the name Wamba Dia Wamba, was in the late 1990s, early 2000s. It was mostly on radio. The first time I read the name Wamba […] More
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"Mujooga basajja mwe!" – The value of a 10k shilling note in this pandemic. #Stories4Health
The text came in at 10:00 pm in the night. Hey, have you seen the news today? Man, it’s crazy. It was my brother Niwarinda. This was on Sunday 17th […] More
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JJAJJA DOESN'T REALIZE THAT TRIBES/ETHNIC IDENTITIES AND THEIR UNIQUE INTERESTS CAN'T BE WISHED/WASHED /SUSHED AWAY?
Our dear national Jjajja and president doesn’t want Baganda to pursue, or even speak of, their interests as a tribe/ethnic entity! In a Uganda where, since the declaration of the […] More
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in Innovation, Science and Technology, Law, Crime and Justice, Politics and Government, Transportation & Transport Vessels
The Digital Plates Dilemma
On the morning of Wednesday, November 1st 2023 something groundbreaking at the time, happened somewhere in Uganda. Security Minister Maj. Gen. Jim Muhwezi and Works and Transport Minister Gen. Katumba […] More
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THE ENGINEERING AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF CORRUPTION BY THE OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF UGANDA.
We have been very close friends since 1966. We stayed in the same house, Presidents House, at Busoga College, Mwiri, Presidents House, and occupied the same double-decker bed in the […] More
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UGANDA, and the East African Community: A case for demand-led growth in the economy.
A tonne of sugar costs $705 to transport from Kakira to Nairobi. From any other market, including Brazil, the least cost of transportation for a tonne of sugar is $840! […] More
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The 1986 SMACK Exodus Amid NRA Takeover; A Personal Experience.
Day 1 (Friday, 24th January, 1986) —– It may have happened 40 years ago, this week, but the memories still linger fresh in my mind. Yet all these years later, […] More
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