I’m I a little late to the party? It seems all the experts have already weighed in on the recent move by the Biden administration to exclude Uganda from the African Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA) platform. Just last week the inevitable happened with Uganda being struck of the list of AGOA participating nations. AGOA is a […]
Recently, the European Union(EU) Parliament issued a formal complaint against the Chinese People’s Republic regarding its trade deficit with China. This complaint has sparked global debate about the nature and impact of China’s economic engagement with the world especially with developing nations. While the EU’s concerns are not without merit, in the new multipolar world, the […]
The people of the People’s Republic of China as well as the people of Uganda have got a striking similarity which; as I have come to notice, has been largely under looked in most Sino-Ugandan (African) studies. We as Africans call it Ubuntu; the belief that the individual is an inherent part of the whole […]
The Global Gateway infrastructure initiative, is by all means and purposes, revolutionary. It marks a radical shift from the hitherto established foreign assistance structure between Europe and African countries like Uganda from a system reliant of foreign developmental, social and medical aid to a focus on foreign direct investment in key areas like infrastructure development, […]
Mugerwa Joseph is a natural born story teller, perched on his wooden stool, his hand nestled absentmindedly in his prickly black beard stubble, one would be forgiven if they wouldn’t believe he’s one of the most influential personalities in Uganda’s flower industry, running two successful flower shops and wholesale flower depots as well as an […]
In case you’ve not been paying attention, last week ushered into the Ugandan civic space a new era of online and remote protests. The satirically dubbed #KampalaPotholeExhibition; a brainchild of Ugandan cartoonist and Academic Dr Spire Ssentongo, had all the pomp and novelty of a cultural revolution with Ugandan social media enthusiasts tweeting, posting and […]
Recently, at my weekly book club meeting at FEMRITE Bukoto, I met a white foreign policy enthusiast, Tobias. Introducing myself as a fellow of Ugandan and Regional think tank Development Watch Center, he excitedly invited me to share coffee with him at a popular restaurant along Acacia Avenue popular with foreign tourists and Ugandan elites. […]
Globalization, to the average East African may sound like a distant abstract concept reserved to high powered political boardrooms and civil conference halls as a paperweight occasionally pulled out to spice political, economic and diplomatic discourse. It was thus with panic induced apprehension and fear that we; in Kampala and other parts of Uganda a […]
For close to four months in 2020, several islands in the Kalangala archipelago were virtually cut off from the rest of the country after weeks of unprecedented rising water levels on Uganda’s largest water body, Lake Victoria to record breaking levels last seen in the 1960’s. For a region that thrives on fishing and tourism, […]
It is said that Kampala never sleeps, “the party capital of East Africa” any revealers call the city. But walking across the neon lit bar strips of Acacia and upper Kololo or the music blaring Bandali rise one can almost forget that this was unthinkable two decades ago. The neon lights would be flickering due […]
