COLUMNISTS

By Kant Ateenyi Kanyarusoke Is Karuma dam on track now? Perhaps yes. Bujagali took ages to come on. But opponents of damming will not give up! Through local compatriots like Oweyaaga Afunaduula (New Vision, 8 July 13), they are opening a new front – in the form of Reservoir Induced …

By Makhtar Diop Acaled-up land registration and legal recognition of the rights of squatters on public lands, would improve lives Few development challenges in Africa are as pressing and controversial as land ownership and its persistent gap between rich and poor communities. With a profound demographic shift in Africa from …

By Andrew M. Mwenda A teenager is killed. The killer is acquitted. The country is USA. The teenager was black. Sounds familiar? Yes! Here is why. Preamble from the Huffington Post: In March 2013, 16-year old unarmed Kimani Gray was shot seven times, including three times in his back by …

By Rajab Kakyama Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism Refer to “America’s slippery slope” (The Independent July 05). Before George Orwell published his novel in 1948, Albert Einstein in 1917 wrote to a friend that “our much – praised technological progress …

By Morris Komakech The healthcare system requires restructuring to treat the community more than the individual A cloud of gloom has descended upon Uganda as global experts fear that the country is losing the gains it made in the early years in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Over the years, experts …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Why the U.S. should reflect on its historical experience and let the secularists and Islamists forge their own path Events in Egypt over the last week have been both disappointing and illuminating. Disappointing because a democratically elected government was overthrown by the military supported by a …

By Joseph E.Stiglitz The two proposed new free-trade areas are designed to maintain special interests that dominate trade policy in the west Though nothing has come of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round of global trade negotiations since they were launched almost a dozen years ago, another round of …

By Henry Zakumumpa Ugandan cultural expressions are being ‘stolen’, repackaged and sold It was October 2010. President Yoweri Museveni was locked in a presidential election contest with Dr Kizza Besigye. A decisive blow, an event, an endorsement was needed by either camps to turn the tide. Then came the idea …

By Andrew Mwenda How the US war on terror threatens to undermine the cause of individual liberty In 1948, George Orwell published his novel, 1984, a classic statement of the danger to individual liberty paused by increasing technological sophistication, especially in the hands of the state. The novel is set …

By Agaba Rugaba There is no paradox or contradiction with economic performance indexes Andrew Mwenda’s “Uganda’s Incompetence Paradox” in his column The Last Word (The Independent June 28) makes for interesting reading. He fronts the unorthodox argument of how economic performance indexes contradict the underlying assumptions that we hold about …