How electoral democracy has prostituted our governance and undermined the public spirit THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Uganda is facing a moral crisis, a loss of the public spirit in public service. Public policy and actions no longer embody the public spirit. Instead, they reinforce a pattern …
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How America and her so called allies became arrogant to the point of missing the massive shifts in global power THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | The recently concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting in Tianjin, China, attracted a lot of attention on both traditional and social …
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How the ruling party’s competitive elections produce a government that serves individuals THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The just-concluded NRM primary elections are a classic case of the inconsistency between Uganda’s politics and democratic theory. There is a wide expectation that when leaders are subjected to popular …
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What the speaker’s victory over Kadaga in NRM elections tells us about where our country stands THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The resounding victory of Speaker Anita Among over former Speaker Rebecca Kadaga for the ceremonial position of deputy vice president of the NRM for the eastern region …
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How Uganda’s road development and maintenance failures don’t make rational sense THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | President Yoweri Museveni complained recently about the bad state of our national trunk roads. He blamed “people” who have “caused this disastrous state of our roads” as not understanding the ideology …
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How international involvement in the affairs of these two countries has complicated internal conflict resolution THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The DRC and Ukraine may be geographically and culturally apart but they share many similarities. DRC is the second largest country in Africa, after Algeria. Ukraine is the second largest …
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How Hamas lured Israel into taking actions that have ruined the reputation of the Jewish state THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Will Durant, an American philosopher, after writing eleven volumes of a book titled The Story of Civilization, was asked what lessons he had drawn from such an extensive study …
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The transformation of democracy from a political form into a faith-based self-destructive secular religion THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | If one scans the political-intellectual map of the world today, one idea stands dominant: that the solution to the governance problems of any country is democracy. Even in those …
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What the genocide in Gaza teaches us about the West and its claims to civilization and liberal democracy THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | We are witnessing, live on our smartphones and television screens, a genocide of the very first magnitude. It is not happening in the jungles of “the …
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How Beti Kamya has turned the ombudsman into into a theatre for her ego, nepotism, corruption and vindictiveness THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | I dreamt last week that a decision was made at a very high level to arrest the Inspector General of Government (IGG), Beti Kamya, for abuse …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
