In The Magazine

By Mwambustya Ndebesa The 1999 winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, Amartya Sen asserts that there has never been food shortage in a functioning democracy. There is an argument currently that demonstrations cannot bring rain.  It’s an argument to discount those who are demonstrating because of high food prices.  …

By Mike Mahigigi Uganda lags while Kenya and Tanzania show simple ways to unlocking their potential There is worldwide consensus that youth aged 14 to 30 years are the most potentially economically dynamic segment of any population. Unfortunately in Uganda, 50 percent of youth, especially females, are not engaged in …

By Prof. Augustus Nuwagaba Obama has intervened in the US financial crisis. Is our government saying Uganda is more economically liberal than America? The protests over rising commodity prices in Uganda have posed a huge test to the government on how sensitive it is to the needs of the people. …

By independent reporters Review comes up in June, IMF blames crisis on reduced foreign reserves, high election spending, jets purchase. Food and fuel prices complicate plan As traders, religious leaders, students, and civil society organisations criticise the government’s reaction to the Walk-to-Work protests over high food and fuel prices, one …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Makerere University students went on strike in April over reports that it was planning to raise tuition fees from the average of Shs 3 million to Shs 6 million per year per student.  Before the strike the university’s Ag.Vice Chancellor, Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba told The Independent’s …

By Bob A. Kasango Let us all know that injustice anywhere is ultimately injustice everywhere In the January 31, 2009 issue of Newsweek magazine, Fareed Zakaria wrote about how in May 2006, a unit of American soldiers in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan valley were engulfed in a ferocious fire fight with the …

By eriasa mukiibi sserunjogi Public anger greets Museveni even before he is sworn–in Opposition politicians have vowed to continue with their walk-to-work campaign despite arrests and violent break up of their protests by the police.  Political pundits are puzzled on which direction the protests will take, especially in the run …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Given Libya’s tribal cleavages, the contours of conflict will deepen ethnic tensions and threaten the institutional integrity of the state Now, the complexity of the political problems of Libya is becoming apparent. There is a lot of back and forth shift in fortunes between rebels and …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Uganda is now caught up in the contradiction of extreme wealth alongside excessive poverty and extreme luxury alongside mass deprivation After a long period without any public issue around which to galvanise popular discontent in their favour, the opposition in Uganda has finally found one in …

By Bright Arinaitwe I do not know many educated people who support President Museveni’s regime unless they enjoy personal benefits from it directly or indirectly. The level of education has a big role to play in a country’s democratisation process. Poor and uneducated people do not know how their vote, …