Uganda’s blunt social philosopher rests, leaving no friend not honoured and no enemy not punished OBITUARY | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | Rarely in the course of time and the spread of geography has humanity experienced the presence of a man like Joseph Tamale Mirundi. He was an oddity – a misfit. …
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The discourse of Human Rights in the country overlooks the real political issues which perpetrate violations COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITI SSERUWAGI | Young Ugandans usually define themselves as Human Rights activists when they become civically aware or come of political age. As a young lawyer and a recent graduate from the …
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Settling the Palestinian Question could consider `de-Zionisation’ of Israel as propagated by a number of scholars COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | At the beginning of this year, Uganda hosted the two twin global conferences of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Third South Summit. Chairing both the NAM and G77 + …
Read More »Why changing government won’t solve Uganda’s problems
Bobi Wine, like Kizza Besigye, is wrong to see Museveni as the problem and his removal as the solution COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | In this article, I argue that the lack of a developed socio-political infrastructure to uphold the bureaucracy of a modern state exposes Uganda to certain structural …
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