Category: Opinion

Like a river picking up sediment, Uganda’s governance is carrying seven dogmas that block critical reasoning.

In many rural districts, local councillors emerge directly from communities shaped by poverty, interrupted schooling, informal labour, and limited educational opportunities. 

For no republic in history has permanently escaped the consequences of weakening its own institutions to preserve the ambitions of prolonged power.

The 12th Parliament risks becoming even more subordinate to executive and military influence if current trends continue.

When the National Resistance Movement (NRM) captured state power through the barrel of the gun in January 1986, it promised more than military stability. 

As markets become more complex and information moves faster, communications is now part of strategy, embedded in how boardroom decisions are formed, framed, and executed.

Prof Oweyegha-Afunaduula: “The old and elderly are the only group that can teach the youth to distinguish between genuine identity and manufactured ethnic hatred.”

Petty disagreements, personal rivalries, and mistrust have repeatedly overshadowed the collective responsibility they share as watchdogs of society. 

A disturbing wave of student youth-led violence in Bukedea, Amolatar, Apac, Lira and elsewhere across the country is forcing us to confront this question. 

Electricity access has expanded to every district except Buvuma and Obongi, as per Uganda Bureau of Statistics, 2024.

Unfortunately, the Attorney General, Kiryowa continues to insist that the bill is a good law in the offing without defining any serious mischief that the law intends to cure.