COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | I last week prayed, ate, drank and danced at the graduation party of Royal Palm Nursery and Primary School, Namyoya, Goma Division in Uganda’s Mukono Municipality. But at about that same time, some students of Kyambogo University (KYU) were, by vice-chancellor Prof. Eli Katunguka’s own …
Read More »I am now a proud processor of healthy, fresh or smoked, packaged rabbit meat
SPECIAL FEATURE | Alfred Geresom Musamali | At first I felt insulted when nearly three years ago somebody suggested that since I was mandatorily retiring from the public service upon clocking the age of 60 years and would have fewer if any savings on which to rely till the Lord …
Read More »Masette Kuuya was Obote’s ‘Bituli Mia’, wanted Mandela Stadium in Nabumali
OBITUARY | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Hon Patrick Masette Kuuya, son of Abner Walyawula of Sibanga in the current Manafwa district, was the “Bituli Mia” of Dr Apollo Milton Obote’s Second Government (1980 to 1985). “Bituli” in some Ugandan languages means gaps, holes, shapes or openings while “mia” is Kiswahili for a …
Read More »Ugandans survived the COVID-19 lockdown but might not live through the current financial one
COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | It was tough going through the two years of lockdown resulting from the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Uganda. But some households that survived the lockdown may not live through the prevailing financial one in the country. During some of that time, movement …
Read More »I urgently need to inherit Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere’s Big, Black Book
OBITUARY | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Now that former Democratic Party (DP) President-General Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere (aged 90 years) is dead, I urgently need to inherit one of his intellectual property items – to wit, the Big, Black Book in which during the 1980s he conceptualised recording the names of …
Read More »UNEB needs clear policy on candidates who miss exams for no fault of their own
COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Few people have felt the personal pain of missing a national examination like I did in November, 1973. I was blocked from sitting the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) due to a disagreement between my parents and the headteacher of the then Nyondo Boys’ Demonstration School …
Read More »Here is why Jackson Oboth got it wrong on Tororo
In his article, Oboth was insensitive to the feelings of our other ethnic groups such as the Banyole, Bagwere, Basamia, Iteso and Bagisu who consider Tororo equally their ancestral town. COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | In his article entitled “Tororo must start thinking big,” published in The Independent Magazine website recently, Jackson …
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