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How native media influenced issues in pre-independence Uganda Sunday February 21 2021 Summary Uganda was the first country in East Africa to have a native-owned newspaper. Sekanyolya was an anti-Buganda establishment newspaper mainly focusing its attack on the chiefs sitting in the Lukiiko and the general Ganda society In its January 1921 edition, Sekanyolya made a direct attack on Buganda’s ruling elite. “Some people despise others because they are chiefs. This is getting to be a common at...

Daily Monitor Sunday February 21 2021 Worshipers at the shrine in January last year. Inset, are artifacts at Embuga ya Mukasa (god of water and fish) shrine. PHOTOS/MORGAN MBABAZI Advertisement  When I arrived at the ancient traditional religious shrine archaeologically known as the Tanda Pits, on a cool morning in Tanda Village in Mityana District, there was a beehive of activity as some pilgrims went about with their prayers and smoking pipes, while others were chatting, cleaning or preparin...

Daily Monitor Friday February 19 2021 Summary Mr Okodan Akwap says: Those who voted NUP. .. were angry at Museveni. Museveni is also now angry at them. Advertisement We are still deep into the post-mortem phase of the January 14 polls. Indeed, the analytical phase of this election could last a little longer than what happened in previous times. This is largely because of the news bombshell Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, a former presidential candidate of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and...

Stories abound of people being defrauded by property agencies in the name of selling them land

Daily Monitor Monday February 08 2021 During the run up to the 2021 elections, presidential candidates turned Bulange, the headquarters of the Kingdom of Buganda, into a place of pilgrimage. The candidates wanted to assure the leaders at Mengo that they have their interests at heart.  Many bought certificates as a sign of allegiance and promised that they respect the institution of the Kabaka. No other institution did the candidates visit as much as the Kingdom of Buganda.  Although President...

Omuganda Kika explores Buganda’s rich clan history February 8, 2021 Written by David Lumu Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga (R) launches the book as author Oweek David Kyewalabye Male looks on On January 22, the Katikkiro of...

Daily Monitor Saturday February 06 2021 Head of the EU Delegation to Uganda Attilio Pacific (front left) and other EU diplomats meet former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine (front right), at Mr Kyagulanyi’s home in Magere, Wakiso District on Thursday. PHOTO/ABUBAKER LUBOWA Advertisement President Museveni’s letter dated January 2, in which he suspended the operations of the European donor-funded Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) project, appears to be just a cont...

Daily Monitor Saturday February 06 2021 The royal mile connects the palace of the Kabaka and his administrative unit. PHOTO/EDGAR R. BATTE Advertisement On a sunny Saturday morning, motorists go about their hustles in Bulange, Mengo in Kampala. Some pedestrians make their way up and down the mile, dotted with tree shades, where some folks take shelter.  As a travel enthusiast, one of the tourist sites I had never paid attention to is the royal mile in Buganda Kingdom, despite the fact that I h...

Stashed inside pickup trucks and guarded by armed militias and jihadists, every year billions of illicit cigarettes wind their way through the lawless deserts of northern Mali bound for the Sahel and North Africa. The profits from their long journey fuel north Mali’s many armed conflicts, lining the pockets of offshoots of al-Qaida and the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, as well as local militias, and corrupt state and military officials. This violence is now spilling out across West Afri...

Daily Monitor Monday January 25 2021 People wave at President Museveni during his victory drive on Masaka-Kampala highway last Thursday. Critics say the victory drive was a testament of the President’s fading halo in Buganda as the population overwhelmingly voted his rival Robert Kyagulanyi. PHOTO/KELVIN AYUHAIRE Summary  President Museveni’s victory drive last Thursday from his countryside home in Rwakitura, Kiruhura District, through rural central Uganda en route to Kampala was, to polit...