ARTICLES 2008-2015

By Colin Barigye In the past, you Andrew Mwenda gave your readers hope with your right hand, but of recent you have turned around and stolen the same hope with your left hand. I still willow in nostalgic reminiscence of the very many impassioned arguments that you often articulated in …

By Patrick Kagenda Bank of Uganda says economy stable but BoP figures tell a different story Uganda’s macro-economic environment remains “broadly stable” amid global economic gloom, according to the March economic and financial indicators from the Central Bank. But close scrutiny of the figures released last week reveals an attempt …

By Patrick Kagenda What is your day like? I wake up at 5 a.m. and pray. I don’t normally have breakfast but I take hot water. I wake up my children for school and 6:30 a.m. is the latest we leave the house. After I have dropped the children to …

By Patrick Kagenda Economic growth drops to 2.4%, 700,000 could die Africa may have been an innocent bystander when the global financial crisis was hatched in the developed nations but they stand to suffer most according to the latest World Bank forecasts. The queen of African economic gloom, Obiageli K. …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Sometime in the middle of April, I spent three days with my colleague at office, Melina Platas, ‘working’ at Mulago Hospital. We saw patients lying on rotten mattresses, on broken beds (for the lucky ones) while many were on the floor in overcrowded wards and in …

By Odoobo C. Bichachi But should Uganda go to war with Kenya? Last week, Kenyan youths in Nairobi’s Kibera slum ripped away a section of the Uganda-Kenya Railway as demonstration of anger against Uganda’s ‘occupation’ of the disputed Migingo island in Lake Victoria. Earlier in the week, the Luo-Nyanza council …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Address to the students at Makerere University, June 8th 1991 ‘Coming to your problems, I would like to touch on your problem of electricity load shading ‘ a situation in which you have electricity for some hours after which it is taken to another place. These …

By Maria Burnett I kindly beg you to ensure that you keep our children. I don’t think I will be coming back.’ Those were the last words of Saidi Lutaaya, spoken over the phone to his wife. He had been picked up from Old Taxi Park in Kampala in November …

By Kalundi Serumaga Which came first: the instability of the region due to Somalia’s collapse, or Somalia’s collapse due to the instability of the region? Somalia’s story is a continuation of one that started centuries ago, and that stretches far beyond her 3000 km of troubled coastline. It is a …

By Onghwens Kisangala There is a bilateral dispute over the territorial positioning of Migingo Island. Kenya and Uganda are claiming the tiny rocky hill. Mr Patrick Ochieng, MP for Bukhooli South where the island currently falls, talked to The Independents Onghwens Kisangala about how it all started. You are the …