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With the mass adoption of modern tech in Sub-Saharan Africa, industries such as education, banking, and sports are going through a revolution. That has also given rise to other opportunities. The technology has brought Africa to a new dawn and presented the youths with the chance to tackle poverty and
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By Andrew M. Mwenda Inside the Rwanda-Uganda conflict Let me do what politicians always do – claim they run for office due to popular demand. Many people have been asking me to comment on the heightened tensions between Uganda and Rwanda. By writing this article, I am yielding to popular pressure. I
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It’s important that Ugandans, especially, the young people, clearly understand the political challenges that bedevil our country and how we ought to confront and overcome them. This piece has been prompted by the discernible misunderstanding as to what the current political struggles are about and what their trajectory is. How did Uganda,
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By Jason Mugizi For quite a long time, Bank of Uganda (BoU) had been shielded from open public scrutiny. Stories of marvel and wonder characterized the central bank’s tale. Its peerless role in ensuring macroeconomic stability earned it enormous accolades and peeps both locally and internationally to the extent that the ruling
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By Andrew M. Mwenda Last week President Yoweri Museveni officially opened the new Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) head office building in Nakawa. As a work of art, the building is majestic. As a source of national pride, it is inspiring. At 22 floors high, it is the tallest building in Kampala.
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Has it ever crossed your mind how campusers are able to move from one bar to another each night in this poverty stricken Nation? Do you sometimes believe that most of these campus chaps live your dream life; from Nyege Nyege festival to Blankets and Wines to filling up posh clubs
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By Andrew M. Mwenda Finally Jennifer Musisi has resigned as executive director of KCCA. This was inevitable. However, her resignation points to a deeper malady that our nation faces: the gulf between our theoretical ambitions and the pettiness of our politics. Musisi has fallen because she aspired to do great things
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By Andrew M. Mwenda Uganda has a new hero: Bobi Wine. He is being presented to us domestically and internationally as the symbol of our struggle for democracy, freedom, liberty and social transformation. Even some of our “intellectuals” are treating him as an alternative to President Yoweri Museveni. This is the
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By Andrew M. Mwenda I have read the report of the Uganda Human Rights Commission on the way Bobi Wine was arrested and tortured and it is disturbing. He was not at the scene of the incident where the president’s convoy was pelted with stones. The SFC soldiers who arrested and
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By Paul Owor For over 3 years I have been running a Record label/managing musicians, and in so doing I have noticed many artists have come and left and some have totally been forgotten in the shortest time, for respect I will not mention any names. Based on that background I decided
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