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 […]
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Uganda’s ‘Great’ Independent Monitor Lives To See 20: We Fought The Good Fight, Lost Many Battles, Won The Big Wars
August 31, 2012 19 Comments Short URL Alfred Okware, and Haruna Kanaabi, Andrew Mwenda, Anna Bozello, Basilio Okello, Ben Kiwanuka, Buganda, Charles Onyango-Obbo, Daily Monitor, David Ouma, Ebyaffe, Francis Patrick Mayiga, Hassan Abdi, Hussein Njuki, Idi Amin, James Serugo, Joseph Kony, Kabaka Fred Mutesa, Kevin Aliro, Kyazze Simwogerere, LRA, north Uganda IDP camps, restoration of Uganda kingdoms, Richard Tebere, Ssezi Cheeye, The Shariat, Tito Okello, Uganda CID, Uganda Confidential, UNLA generals, UPDF, Wafula Oguttu, Yoweri Museveni Heroes & Villains, Naked Chiefs & Emperors
KONY 2012: The Story Of The ‘Evil One’ Has Done Something To The Children’s Hearts; How We Got Here (Part 5, The End)
‘Perhaps Kony 2012’s appeal comes from its “superficiality”, because that way it is able to serve up emotion. Maybe young people connect more to the emotion of stories, not their complexity. And, contrary to what we grown ups think, the kids sometimes need something more than Angry Birds and Grand Theft Auto—they would like to […]
March 17, 2012 35 Comments Short URL Africa, child soldiers, Democratic Republic of Congo, IDPs, Invisible Children, Joseph Kony, josephkony, Kampala, Kony, Kony 2012, Kony 2012 video, Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, Museveni, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons, Rogue Stuff
Kony 2012 Video, Sowing The Seeds From Which The Nightmare Was Born, And How We Got Here (Part 2)
I ran into Museveni on the late afternoon of, if I remember accurately, February 4, 1981. He was wearing a short sleeve beige shirt untucked, and khaki trousers, and ambling along in his trademark wobbly walk. He had pistol in a holster to his right side, and another one stuck into his belt to the […]
March 14, 2012 17 Comments Short URL 1.4 million to 1.6 million IDPs, attack, Basilio Okello, British colonialism, Chango Machyo, divide-and-rule, election theft, Gen. Idi Yusuf Lule, Godfrey Binaisa, guerrilla war, Gulu, Invisible Children, Juba talks, July 1985 coup, Kabamba army barracks, Kampala, Kenya-Uganda Railway, King Freddie Mutebi, Kony 2012 video, largest camps for internally displaced people in world, LRA, Military Commission, milk-drinking-banana-eating weaklings, Milton Obote, Museveni, Museveni sworn in, Nairobi PeacenTalks, northerners, southerners, Tito Okello, Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF), Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM), Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Weekly Topic Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons, Rogue Stuff
