‘Dual citizen’ Bill is another way to divide or label Ugandans

This bill is like a cancer that intends to split up Ugandans abroad and home. It is like a borderline between us and the Ugandans at home. It is not different from the bills that try to divide Uganda into more kingdoms other than those recognised by the 1962 and 1995 constitutions. What happened to [...]

SEMEI KAKUNGULU IS A UGANDAN NATIONALIST!

Increasingly, I have heard of people calling Semei Kakungulu a traitor, hero or a nationalist but I want to take my discussion to mostly the ‘nationalist’ part, whatever that might be.  At the same time, I see confusion in people who have thought of themselves  being allied with one political or ideological outlook or another [...]

A message to UPC’s Joseph Ochieno

Dear Ochieno,
You are very good at starting political debates  with the following words: ‘ the next Upc government’ and i would like to tell you that  the ‘” next UPC government ” mantra is not selling to some of us when the historical UPC image has not been shade off in any way.
Before independence, the UPC, [...]

Nubians are my Muslim brothers

Dear readers,
I would like to make a few comments and probably my last about this issue.

Please I would like those who are Banubi by tribe to explain to the members what they understand by a Ugandan Nubian since this is just a debate. Brother Ahmed Katerega and I have heard our say on the issue [...]

WHO IS A NUBIAN

Nubians started as a colonial army in Uganda recruited in the upper Nile region(South Sudan) by Emin Pasha before they were integrated into the civilian communities in Uganda.This happened way before the Mahdist rebellion in 1882.But they later qualified as a tribe since they developed a culture,language and religion. The original Nubians used to be [...]

Mengo is more of a political than cultural institution

Dear readers,
Africa is all about culture and traditions. Politics in Africa are embedded in the cultural institutions. When religion was introduced on the scene in Africa, it also joined the equation of things. Therefore, anybody knocking on your door and starts telling you that you can separate culture and religion from politics, just send them [...]

Why is sport not taken seriously by govt?

Dear Ugandans,
As a lover of football particularly the premier league, I feel disturbed that our governments in Uganda have not taken sports very seriously since independence. Sports in Uganda are not taken so seriously by the government because they say there have got to put money in other more pressing areas such as health and [...]

Obote and UPC inheritted their Economic program from the colonialists

Dear Ugandans,
If you follow the speech made by Sir Andrew Cohen, the former Governor of Uganda at a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal Empire Society in 1957 before he handed the tools of leadership to Sir Frederick Crawford, then you will realise that Obote 1 inherited a good future plan [...]

Banning political parties in Uganda was necessary in 1986

Dear readers,
The reason why I think that banning political parties, particularly UPC, was justified could be found on why Binaisa lost his presidency. If Binaisa had started by banning political parties, rather UPC, he would have lasted in that presidency as probably Museveni. You cannot organise elections in an environment that was as volatile as [...]

Nyerere indirectly imposed UPC/Obote on Uganda through Moshi and UNLF

Dear readers,
Judge Kanyeihamba made some comments in his interview with the Uganda Observer on 02/08/09  that made him sound not as bright as we all thought.

Uganda was under a military dictatorship under Iddil Amin during the Moshi conference and the government before Amin( Obote 1) was a semi-military government, of which both could have been only [...]

Both DP and Military Commission never wanted Professor Lule to come back in 1980

We all know that Museveni was once a member of DP and UPC before he became NRM or NRMO or whatever it is at the moment. CP and UPM are off springs of UPC.
Both the DP EXECUTIVE and the millitary government or commision never wanted Lule to come back. It is believed that Lule wrote [...]

M7 was once a DP supporter

Dear all,
How could any one have separated a supporter, sympathiser and a member efficienly at that time in the 1960s when Museveni was arguably a DP member or supporter.All i know is that there is a thin line between a supporter, sympathiser and a member because at the end of the day each group end [...]

Fascism in UPC exposed

1.One UPC supporter called Edward Mulindwa wrote:’ ……The fascistic hatred you have for the Obote family makes one wonder whether you are a bonafide fascist…..’.I think this was uncalled for but for the sake of the debate, let us let readers here judge for themselves. Fascism first crystallized in Europe in response to the Bolshevik [...]

UPC should not point fingers at anybody

UPC supporters,
If you can reach out to the members of UPC NEC, please kindly ask them to stop attacking FDC or DP or any other party for the sake of future democracy of Uganda. Oh, they may be allowed to attack NRM or Museveni(1990-2009) but not the pre-1986 Museveni or NRM. I told you that [...]

FDC IS DIFFERENT FROM NRM

People who say that FDC and NRM are the same don’t know what they are talking about. They are just playing dirty politics. FDC is a registered political party and totally independent of NRMO. Yes, some of its founders were former members of NRM but all parties in Uganda apart from DP have had a [...]

Akena Pojok was a member of the ‘Third Force’

Hello Ocaya and other UAH members,
As we continue to show that FDC and NRMO are two different parties, let us now use Akena Pojok as a historic case study- to show that people can fall out with party leaders and form their own parties:
1.     Akena Pojok,just like Museveni Yoweri, had top leadership ambitions in both [...]

‘killing a muganda or a munyankole is as easy as riding a bicycle’

Dear Ugandans,
Uganda is a long way to uniting as one country which is sad. Late Obote divided the country so much and the current politicians are also still taking advantage of these divisions. Obote practically divided the north and south of Uganda from the 1960s. Museveni rightly used this division to get rid of Obote [...]

Amin & Obote are part of most villainous people of the century

Dear readers,
I have never said that Hitler, Obote, Amin, Jean-Bedel Bokassa  and others in their category (who were nuttier than squirrel turds) did not do good things for their countries. The bad things they did outweigh the good things. All I know is that I pray and hope that [...]

Buganda,Lule and Uganda after the fall of Dada

Dear ugandans,
If anyone knows Mr. Moses Kalanzi’s email, we would like him to join us at the UAH forum as soon as possible. I have read a few bits he has written in the media and his work seems to be interesting.
Regarding Lule’s leadership, I can only say that Lule was a victim of ‘snakes’, [...]

UPC started tribalism in Uganda

Dear Ugandans,
Before independence, the UPC, by virtue of its non-Baganda domination, was assured of support outside Buganda—and not because it had a party organization which could deliver the votes but because the rest of Uganda hated Buganda at the time. It used the tribal divisions to accumulate support for itself outside Buganda. It’s not that [...]

Common Man’s Charter Vs 10 point programme

Let us go slow on the comparison between Common Man’s Charter and Museveni’s 10 point programme. I’m not a Museveni sympathiser but sometimes I’m forced to defend his paper policies when some one starts ‘sugarcoating’ Obote’s failures. Ok, let us see what we know so far about these two paper policies:
1.Obote’s first administration started off [...]

Namugongo Martyrs day should not be celebrated

All I’m saying that the word ‘martyrdom’ is used biasly by people to fit their situations. What is the difference between Muslims that have died for their religion and the Christians that sacrificed their lives at Namugongo because their religion conflicted with the demands of the then Kabaka of Buganda. Can we say that people [...]

Uganda Martys were not really martyrs(part 2)

Please do not take definitions in the dictionary as giving all the answers you are looking for in words and life. That’s why we have got thesaurus aside within the dictionary. Please don’t take words at face value. Let me try to put more beef and bones on this issue once again and see if [...]

Habyarimana assasination and modesty in leaders

1. Habyarimana just like Museveni came into power through violence. While Museveni’s violence was justified because he had to get rid of Obote Dictatorship and had a convincing democratic plan on paper, Habyariman’s was not because his coup did not have any democratic plan ahead. Habyarimana came into power when the order of the day [...]

Obote was just like Amin and not the greatest Ugandan

I don’t know why some people think Obote is the greatest man Uganda WILL ever produce. Well, I’m sorry to say that I don’t agree with them at all. Let us scrutinise their hero:
1.      Obote was the man who started coups in Uganda by illegally ousting president Mutesa in 1966. This same year he abolished kingdoms and is partly [...]