COLUMNISTS

By Peter Nyanzi But having Oulanyah as Speaker poses new dangers Since his election to the lofty position of Deputy Speaker of Parliament on May 19, 2011, Jacob Oulanyah has rarely appeared on radio or TV talk shows. He has turned down almost all invitations. But on Saturday Oct.05, he …

By Hashim Wasswa Mulangwa Our leaders spend more time talking about why Africa has not developed than on creating capacity A few weeks ago the Central bank held its 21st annual Joseph Mubiru memorial lecture, under the title “Unlocking Africa’s growth potential- aligning decision making to implementation and delivery”. One …

By Gita Gopinath Is it prepared to provide “forward guidance” on how it will tackle potential disruptions in financial markets? This October, central bankers, policymakers, private-sector executives, academics, and representatives of civil-society organisations will convene in Washington, DC, for the annual joint meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the …

By Kavuma-Kaggwa With the oil and gas money we should provide completely free education, health and health We are now swimming in an extremely massive financial catastrophe following the stopping of the donor funding amounting to Shs930 Billion which was being given to our country every year by European countries …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How Rwanda is defying the established mechanisms of organizing politics in Africa and why it is succeeding Last week, we were at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for a two-day conference on Rwanda. It always amazes me how this small …

By Peter Nyanzi It’s always a good sign when the President returns from abroad and camps at Nakasero instead of Entebbe President Yoweri Museveni and journalists clearly like meeting at his Nakasero residence more than at State House Entebbe. The homelike environment – in which he spent decades before the …

By Agencies HIV/Aids experts says American recommendation is `immoral’ Activists in Uganda, where some 400 people are infected with HIV every day, have called on the government to rethink its dismissal of an emerging prevention protocol demonstrated to be effective in a trial conducted partly in Uganda, and which has …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Another look at Africa’s patron-client relations and the peasant moral universe Sometime in 2003, I visited the late former Zambian president Fredrick Chiluba at his palatial home in Lusaka’s rich suburb of Kablong and we sat down over a meal of rice, chapatti and wild game. …

By Ben Rawlence The Westgate attack should spur Kenya’s leaders to re-think their approach toward Somalia The attack that killed more than 70 people at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall on Sept.21 was, according to al-Shabaab, the Somali Islamist militant group that carried it out, retribution for Kenya’s intervention in Somalia. …

By Bob Kasango Such attacks show why the world must widen the frontiers of freedom and promote democracy In May 2011, soon after the killing of the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, in Pakistan by US Special Forces, the Economist Magazine ran a special feature titled, “Now, kill …