My friend Kiflu Hussain, a decent man and good Ethiopian journalist who lives in exile in the Uganda capital Kampala, is angry with the Africa Media Initiative for holding its next convention in Addis Ababa. Why? Because the Ethiopian regime is a dictatorship that torments journalists. And he is also unhappy with me, because he […]
May 16, 2013
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October 3, 2012 was the second anniversary of the death of Ancentus Ogwella Akuku, who was better known as Akuku Danger. A Wikipedia entrance repeats the popular story that Akuku was nicknamed “Danger” because “women were very attracted by his handsome looks”. He died on October 3, 2010, aged 94. The Wikipedia post says Akuku […]
October 3, 2012
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The problem about writing on 20 years of The Monitor - easily the most successful private and independent Ugandan newspaper ever - is not what to say, but what to leave out. I have decided not to say much about ours (the founders who have all now moved on), and particularly my individual role, in the […]
August 31, 2012
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Recently I was visiting with Andrew Mwenda, the Strategy and Editorial Director of the Uganda current affairs magazine The Independent at his Butabika home, in Kampala’s suburbs, when he squeezed me for a favour. He asked that I write about what I thought President Yoweri Museveni was trying to achieve with his “reconciliatory” actions towards several […]
August 5, 2012
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There are many other roads in Uganda that are worse than the Tororo-Mbale one that I just endured a few days ago. I saw a report on one of the Ugandan TVs in April on such roads. Still, I would recommend the Tororo-Mbale road to the courts. Instead of sentencing someone to life imprisonment, the […]
June 13, 2012
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