The book, ` How Big Things Get Done’ by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner which was published this year in February. It explains why many projects fail (go over budget, time or are never finished) and what strategies exist to make projects less likely to fail. BOOK | THE INDEPENDENT …
Read More »Undoing Coups: The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar
Following a recent spate of military coup d’état in West Africa, there has emerged fresh interest in military coup d’état including this one: ‘Undoing Coups. The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar’ by Antonia Witt. BOOK | Antonia Witt | The recent wave of military coups from Sudan to Guinea, …
Read More »Limit X’s Dr Dennis Ssempebwa Launches 17th Book – ‘Black Like Me?’
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr Dennis Ssempebwa, one of the members of the gospel rap group, Limit X, as well as a leadership trainer, author, educator, pastor and thought leader officially launched his 17th and latest book titled ‘Black Like Me?’ on Thursday 17th August at MoTIV. The launch …
Read More »BOOK REVIEW: UPC’s Bossa gives new perspective into 1966 crisis
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It is improbable to list events that form a significant part of Uganda’s history and miss the 1966 attack on the palace of Kabaka Fredrick Mutesa II by the army under the command of then Col. Idi Amin Dada. Diverse accounts have been written in …
Read More »Headline: Why Is U.S. Media Blind to American War Atrocities?
COMMENT | NORMAN SOLOMON | On the first day of March 2022, visitors to the New York Times homepage saw a headline across the top of their screens in huge capital letters: ROCKET BARRAGE KILLS CIVILIANS It was the kind of breaking-news banner headline that could have referred to countless …
Read More »BOOK: Muhairwe’s Remedies for Public Corporations
Armed with an MBA and a PhD in Business Management from Germany, he was chosen by the Government of Uganda to prepare a loss-making public corporation for sale to a foreign private investor. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. William Muhairwe was indeed given a short contract after which the …
Read More »Glamour as Nnaabagereka launches autobiography
Book available at Uganda at Aristoc Booklex, Jumia, Mahiri Books and Amazon. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thursday, the cream of Kampala’s cultural, religious, political and social spheres gathered in the Rwenzori Ballroom of the Kampala Sheraton Hotel to witness the official launch of The Nnaabagereka (Queen) Sylvia Nagginda …
Read More »SPARE: Prince Harry’s open book
With its relentless candor, it reveals more than its author may have intended Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | After watching two Oprah specials, reading various profiles, listening to assorted podcasts, and streaming a six-hour Netflix confessional, I did not expect Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir to tell me anything its author hadn’t …
Read More »Michela Wrong’s Rwanda hatchet job
How attempts to tarnish the name and record of Paul Kagame soils the reputation of a British journalist THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Finally, I have finished reading Michela Wrong’s 516 memoir of Patrick Karegyeya; a former Rwandan intelligence chief who was killed on or about New Year’s …
Read More »Now, White House bars Bolton book release over ‘top secret’ material
Washington, United States | AFP | The White House on Wednesday said that former national security advisor John Bolton cannot publish in its current form a book reportedly containing explosive evidence concerning President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. The National Security Council said after preliminary review of the manuscript — a …
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