“Bakuhe Kazire”: Patenting Traditional Medicine.
There is, apparently, a notable increment in an interest in alternative medicines and in the same breath, another increment in the criticism of modern medical researchers who use knowledge of…
A case against Museveni’s Investors
A Little History Yoweri Kaguta Museveni became president of the Republic of Ugandan on January 26, 1986 after leading a successful five-year guerrilla struggle against the regimes of Milton Obote…
Stella Nyanzi: The Classic Faux Pas.
Here’s to the crazy ones! The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of the rules,…
Citizen Participation in the budget making process: A case of Mombasa County.
The budget making process is one interesting topic. Numerous publications have been done on it since Kenya came under the new constitutional dispensation in 2010. The constitution, by creating 47…
The government alone cannot educate our children
Change, the adage goes, is a fact of life. As such, a handful of experts, members of the Cabinet, and the top two officers at the helm of our leadership…
The reality of modern day democratic theory.
Democracy’s distinctive agendas Broadly, we can take democracy to entail self-rule; we can take it to entail certain individual freedoms; we can take it to mean constitutionalism creating constitutional democracy…
Yahya Jammeh, and the other bitter fruits of African independence.
In politics, there is nothing new under the sun; what is happening today has happened before, and will happen again in the future. In Uganda, and, indeed, in Africa as…
Of failing Institutions in East Africa
Honourable Raila Odinga, a renowned Kenyan politician is said to have once said that what Africa needs to develop are three things; “infrastructure, infrastructure, and infrastructure.” Infrastructure may be interpreted…
Women in Politics: The elusive glass Ceiling
Tuesday, November 11, 2016 was a day that bore bounds of promise for many, especially women world over. After decades of demonstrations of their worth, value, dignity, and potential, in…
The Legend of Lubwama: The Joke is On Us
On February 18, 2016, the good people of Rubaga (a suburb of Kampala, Uganda) went completely haywire, bonkers even, when they, during the Presidential and Parliamentary elections held then, chose…