Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. THE LAST WORD From Kerala with love: A journey to a South Indian state and the contradictions in its egalitarian ideals COVER STORY Museveni’s relation with Biden’s America: The key recent events that matter COMMENTS Sexual …
Read More »AMIN: Joe Biden is not good for Africa
Biden was clearly elected by the vibrant and enterprising American people whom I love and respect so much. So it is fair to say that let him preside over them, not the rest of us COMMENT | Hussein Lumumba Amin | With all due respect, it is quite concerning to …
Read More »Kampala Geopolitics Conference delves into the 4th Industrial Revolution
✳ DAY 1 – Stronger Together? Why and How the COVID-19 Pandemic Should Help Us Re-Imagine Subsidiarity and Solidarity for a Better World Oct 18 ✳ DAY 2 – Women and Power; Reshaping of Foreign Policy Oct 21 ✳ DAY 3 – Oct 23 Geopolitics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution …
Read More »Kakooza Mutale, Onyango-Obbo give geopolitics conference dramatic climax
Kampala, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG | Veteran Ugandan journalist, publisher and analyst Charles Onyango-Obbo has explained why the world will not just sit back and watch as resource-rich Africa does nothing productive with its assets. Quoting former Ugandan politician Eriya Kategaya, in what Obbo described as the ‘Kategaya doctrine’, and his …
Read More »Flying start to Kampala Geopolitics Conference 2019
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Geopolitics Conference 2019 had it all on day one. African and global politics, debate and Intellectualism rolled in a few hours….and that is before an even more promising day two, due Friday at Makerere University. The conference was “…fired by the most impressive and energetic moderation …
Read More »Uganda to host first geopolitics conference
Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Starting October 26-27, Uganda will host the inaugural ‘Kampala Geopolitics Conference’ at Makerere University, Kampala. Over 100 speakers from various countries including France, Germany, South Africa, Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda will discuss 21 topics vital to global concerns before hundreds in the audience, the …
Read More »America versus Museveni
Ambassador Malac redefines the rules Can someone be defined by their hair? Possibly, in the case of U.S ambassador to Uganda, Deborah Malac. As President Yoweri Museveni discovered recently at his most recent swearing-in ceremony, Malac can be as edgy, unconventional, and anti-establishment as her low cut punky blonde head. …
Read More »Uganda: US Ambassador Malac redefines the rules
America versus Museveni Can someone be defined by their hair? Possibly, in the case of U.S ambassador to Uganda, Deborah Malac. As President Yoweri Museveni discovered recently at his most recent swearing-in ceremony, Malac can be as edgy, unconventional, and anti-establishment as her low cut punky blonde head. On May …
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