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Beneath the parish chief were miscellanies of minor chiefs who never received an official salary but were rewarded with beer, labour et cetera

Daily Monitor Sunday January 10 2021 In 1976 my late father Ben Matogo lived in Zambia. He was in exile and was joined by Eriya Kategaya, Samwiri Karugire, Edward Rugumayo and other highbrow exiles who were part of an intellectual vanguard committed to overthrowing Idi Amin. These Ugandan exiles were adherents of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah. A leader who believed that “the majority of the people,” in any movement, understood only action. So my father and his colleagues’ mission, then, was to give intellectual expression to such action.  To serve as ground breakers for the practical i...

Daily Monitor Monday December 21 2020                                                       On the eve of Uganda’s Independence in 1962, thieves broke into the embassies of the United States of America and several other foreign missions, but this was a strange kind of robbery. The only valuables they made off with were the flags of those nations. The attacks were coordinated by Ally Muwabe Kirunda Kivejinja, a member of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) youth wing, who at the time was also a secretary at the party’s research bureau. “After getting the certa...