Uganda
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Uganda: 3 lessons from the Ghetto President’s by-election triumph
Popular musician Bobi Wine’s landslide victory was about more than just his fame. By the close of business last Thursday, Kampala was in an ... -
Are locals starting to push back in the “best place in the world for refugees”?
Uganda is now home to over 800,000 South Sudanese refugees and the world’s largest refugee camp. At a time in which governments across the ... -
Uganda: Stella Nyanzi charged for calling President Museveni a “pair of buttocks”
Since criticising First Lady and Education Minister Janet Museveni, the academic has faced a campaign of state repression. The Ugandan academic Stella Nyanzi was ... -
Uganda: Museveni’s routes to staying in power beyond 2021
It wouldn’t be a surprise to see President Museveni, or immediate family, stay in power past 2021. The question is how. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ... -
Who cares about the ICC’s trial of LRA fighter Dominic Ongwen?
Thousands were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the conflict with the Lord’s Resistance Army. So why aren’t more Ugandans following the first ... -
The Strong Breed: The rise and fall of Africa’s great literary leaders
In Uganda and beyond, the political influence of writers has greatly diminished, with different kinds of artists starting to take their place. In an ... -
Get Rich or Die Trying: The Chinese multinational scamming millions from Ugandans
Thousands of people in Uganda have signed up to a company believing it will cure all their illnesses and help them make a fortune. ... -
“You belong to Joseph Kony”: How Dominic Ongwen and others became child soldiers
Testimony from a former child soldier of the Lord’s Resistance Army highlights the moral and human complexity of Ongwen’s case at the ICC. Earlier ... -
Museveni says he’s “not excited” about Uganda’s oil. Is anyone anymore?
The discovery of sub-Saharan Africa’s fourth largest oil reserve has been hailed as a panacea to Uganda’s problems. But even at peak production, it ... -
Decolonising Makerere: On Mamdani’s failed experiment
At the “Harvard of Africa” in Uganda, power remains in imperial structures and bodies, while excellence is still defined on Western terms. In 1922, within a few ...
