ARTICLES 2008-2015

By Mark Esposito When the job market rewards whom you know more than what you know – the well-connected With Thomas Picketty’s controversial book Capital in the Twenty-First Century topping several bestseller lists, income inequality – which has been on the rise since the 1970s – is once again capturing …

By Morris DC Komakech Despite the increase in global wealth, global inequalities have also expanded We have reached that phase of life where our imagination of foreign cultures, traditions, and certain practices should have changed for good. The technological boom in the last two decades has fused the world, bringing …

By Patrick Kagenda After a five month court battle the Anti Corruption Court sitting at Kololo a Kampala upscale area on June 30, 2014, acquitted and discharged the Uganda Development Bank Ltd (UDBL) Chief Executive Officer Patricia Ojangole who has been battling charges of conflict of interest. Acquitting Ojangole, the …

By Joan Akello The pioneer pay TV services company in Africa says the campaign will play a pivotal role in bringing about meaningful transformation to the benefit of all  therefore  a bold, energetic, rallying-call from MultiChoice Africa that encourages Africans to stand up and make a positive impact in their …

By Haggai Matsiko Army that beat Machar’s fighters faces an unceremonious exit A potholed runway ushers you into Juba International Airport—the most critical South Sudan government installation.  A small old stuffy building with dusty window panes and a dusty cracked cement floor, the terminal is manned by policemen who don …

By Joan Akello What don’t people know about you? I am very reserved and shy. I would hide in a corner and you won’t think I am around. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being one self, if you try to be someone else, you are forcing it and …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Dr Duncan Clarke, author of the `Crude continent: The struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize’ and CEO of Global Pacific & Partners spoke to The Independent’s Andrew Mwenda. Assuming president Museveni called you and said look, Duncan I want you to be my advisor, how do I …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The changing face of the Ugandan army and what it says about Museveni’s plans for the future Imade my career in the late 1990s and early 2000s in large part by investigating and reporting on corruption and incompetence in the Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces (UPDF). The …

By Julius Businge Business owners query new taxes on ICT, education, health, agriculture Francis Kamulegeya, the senior country partner for PriceWaterHouseCoopers in Uganda says “you cannot grow a sector without taxing it”. Kamulegeya’s view flips the common belief that “you cannot grow a sector without giving it incentives”. But Kamulegeya’s …

By Agencies Normal life had come to a standstill as people take pains to avoid physical contact with each other An epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa is now “out of control” with more than 60 outbreak hotspots, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said. …