A FLY ON THE WALL tells me of very interesting conversations between Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni and Kenya’s Chief Justice Willy Mutunga at the swearing-in of Uhuru Kenyatta as president. At the April 9 inauguration held at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, CJ Mutunga who was at hand to perform the rituals, sat next to Museveni. […]
May 17, 2013
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This is the second part of this blog, the first, “The Demons That Torment African Journalists; To Run Or Stand And Fight (Part I)” was published earlier: (http://nakedchiefs.com/2013/05/16/the-demons-that-torment-african-journalists-to-run-or-stand-and-fight-part-i/). The Monitor, Uganda’s main independent daily paper, was closed for 10 days over the “helicopter story”.Among other things, we had been charged with “aiding an enemy of […]
May 16, 2013
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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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Let’s remind ourselves. One of the big news stories of 2012 was “Kony 2012”, the short documentary video by the American children rights group Invisible Children. “Kony 2012”, which chronicled the atrocities of indicted Uganda war criminal and Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader Joseph Kony, became the most viral video in history. It notched more […]
January 11, 2013
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One of the Elders associated with Nation Media Group (NMG) is extremely well-travelled and from all over the world he soaks in several lessons about media. His knowledge of the media business can be disarming. In one meeting, he reflected on what he considered the “unfortunate” tendency that has invaded African media too, of filling […]
December 13, 2012
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There was a dramatic rush in the Kenyan capital Nairobi last Tuesday (December 4, 2012) to beat the deadline for registering coalitions for the March 4, 2013 General Election.When the dust settled, the rest of East Africa, which had been worrying itself to death about Kenya having another violent election as it did in 2007/2008 thus […]
December 9, 2012
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One of the things that most undermines African democracy is election theft. If you look at many bouts of violence and guerilla wars in several countries in Africa – from Yoweri Museveni’s war that started in February 1981, the Algeria civil war that began in 1992 after the military-dominated government cancelled elections set to be […]
October 23, 2012
Short URL African democracy, Algeria civil war, and pulling down transmitters, Angola, armed soldiers, armoured cars, Barack Obama, Cameroon, cancelled elections, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, election theft, Ethiopia, guerilla war, high risk, insanely shameless, Ivory Coast, Kenya post-election violence, Kizza Besigye, Military Police, Mitt Romney, Nigeria, power hungry, shutting down websites, state machinery, tanks, the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), Togo, Uganda, uncertainty, violence, Yoweri Museveni, Zimbabwe Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Politically Incorrect, Rogue Stuff
On September 2, 2012, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was buried in the capital Addis Ababa. It was an emotional event, and the high and mighty of Africa all assembled, and messages poured in from all over the world. However, many Ethiopians who hated Zenawi, a man they viewed as an autocrat and dangerous tribalist, […]
September 8, 2012
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First published in The East African, Sept. 1-7, 2012 NAIROBI: Somalia’s long transition ended on August 20, with its war-battered capital Mogadishu more peaceful than it has been in 20 years. However, the African Union peacekeeping mission, Amisom, which can claim credit for the change in Somalia, is not holding a victory parade yet. In often […]
September 2, 2012
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When Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi died on August 20, he took with him not just a secret about himself, but also about other strongmen-cum-reformist African leaders. That secret – or rather mystery – is why they resort to pulling fingernails and become intolerant of dissident – when they don’t have to and could do […]
August 31, 2012
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