Despite recent globalisation in retreat narratives, worldwide supply flows suggest it is here to stay COMMENT | Olivia White & Jonathan Woetzel | Global trade still conjures images of giant container ships. But our world has changed. The transport of physical goods across borders is no longer the only, or even the …
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What is interesting, however, is how much left-wing and right-wing intolerance have in common COMMENT | Ian Buruma | The United States is in the midst of a book-banning frenzy. According to PEN America, 1,648 books were prohibited in public schools across the country between July 2021 and June 2022. That number …
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The majority of financially excluded women are in the informal sector and hard-to-reach areas, which requires innovative financing solutions to reach out to them – innovations in digital financial inclusion with a special focus on women is, therefore, necessary to improve the financial inclusion standing of the women COMMENT | …
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COMMENT | MOSES KAKETO | Imagine waking up one day to find MTN Uganda operating electric purses, issuing debit cards and prepaid cards, taking fixed deposits, and investing some of the money they get in bonds and securities. Industry experts apparently believe this to be a fairly accurate dream. The road to the …
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FROM THE ARCHIVES | ANDREW MWENDA | I wrote this article about John Nagenda in THE MONITOR in 1996. If I was to write an eulogy of him today, I would still write the same. ******* By Andrew M. Mwenda ( The Monitor 1996) Presidential Advisor on the Media and …
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Experience suggests the 18th century Enlightenment vision of individuals emancipated of nature was flawed COMMENT | Corine Pelluchon | Enlightenment ideas of scientific rationalism and technological domination have led us to the edge of an abyss. Unless we embrace a new Enlightenment one that places ecology and care at its core we …
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It is obscene to blame Ukraine for Russian acts of destruction or its resistance as a rejection of peace COMMENT | Slavoj Žižek | Last May, before being newly re-elected as president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, bear …
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The Ugandan government and other stakeholders ought to prioritise to boost economic transformation COMMENT | Michael Mukasa | Over the past three decades, the internet has become an integral part of our daily lives. Technology has transformed the way we communicate, obtain information and do business. However, the benefits of the internet …
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COMMENT | Olivia Nalubwama | Lately, homosexuality in a hostile takeover has grabbed our social media feeds and news headlines. The news headlines must be grateful for the break. Now we do not have to hear about corruption, unbridled ineptitude, and torture nio nio nio. We Ugandans of upright standing and …
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Out of the estimated 21,930,000 women in Uganda, 61.7% access internet daily, and 44% percent use their own mobile phones COMMENT | Lydia Mirembe | International Women’s Day is a good time to apply a gender lens to all aspects of life – not only to draw attention to the traditional …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
