The mandate of the third East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) expires on June 4. A new class of representatives, nine from each partner state, most of them new, will take their turn at shaping the region’s development agenda. One hopes that the respective national parliaments will send representatives who have the integrity, interest, ability and […]
Happy birthday Mr. President! Your birth on February 21, 1924 in Kutama, Rhodesia was a blessed event for your people. We thank you for serving your country, both in the struggle for freedom and as the prime minister, then president of independent Zimbabwe. As a young lad, I was a great admirer of yours […]
God has a great sense of humor. In 2001, He gives America George W. Bush as its 43rd president. After eight years of the Texan’s failed leadership, God turns the country over to Barack Hussein Obama, a bright African American son of a Kenyan man. Obama leads America out of a very deep recession, ends […]
Of the many beautiful tributes and eulogies last week in memory of the late Dr. Margaret Mungherera, I was especially struck by what was said by two key figures in Uganda’s ruling establishment. Former Vice-President Specioza Wandira-Kazibwe wanted Margaret’s body in parliament. After all she was a national hero, Specioza rightly observed. Prime Minister Ruhakana […]
In this keynote speech, delivered at the meeting of the Kenya Medical Association in Kisumu in April 2016, Dr. Margaret Mungherera speaks about her cancer. It is a moving presentation, that turns out to be her farewell speech to the worldwide medical community. Margaret died on Saturday February 4, 2017. She was 59. This […]
It was our great luck that we should be the group that would close the chapter on the junior high school experience at Kigezi High School. Like elsewhere in Uganda, the system was changed from 8 years of pre-senior secondary school to seven years. So in 1966, primary 7 and Junior 2 students sat the […]
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