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Bobi Wine’s international media embarrassment
So Uganda’s messiah, Bobi Wine, has been on the international media circuit to sell his message for change. If you have watched him speak, you now know the real problem […] More
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Letter to People Power – NUP
So today I went to the head office of NUP expecting to be lynched! I was prepared to die at the hands of what I thought was largely a collection […] More
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Inside Bobi Wine’s crass opportunism in Ziggy Wine’s death
Last week, it became apparent that the initial news that a one Michael [K]alinda aka Ziggy Wine had been kidnapped, eye yanked out, fingers chopped off and face burnt using […] More
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BUGANDA NATIONALISM IS BLACK: NOT A LOCAL VERSION OF BREXIT
According to Akala, in his memoir on race, class, imperialism and capitalism titled “Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire”, “different nationalisms are different in intent and content […] More
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The Limits of Performing Hunger: Mwine-Kyarimpa’s Tentative Notes on Uganda’s United Opposition Strategy
This morning, in a seeming assembly of good hope, Dr Kiiza Besigye’s People’s Government together with Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi’s People Power movement and other opposition parties formed an alliance, United […] More
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How Museveni and his opponents need each other
In their misguided (even though, perhaps, well-intentioned) war against President Yoweri Museveni, many pro-democracy (but mostly pseudo-democracy) “activists” bring three fundamentally erroneous assumptions. First, that Museveni’s government has mismanaged Uganda […] More
