ANALYSIS OF THE FY2023/24 NATIONAL BUDGET: WHAT IS IN IT FOR THE WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF UGANDA?

INTRODUCTION The FY2023/24 National Budget was passed by the Parliament of Uganda in line with the provisions of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. The Budget Statement was presented by the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to the nation on Thursday 15th June 2023 under the theme “Full Monetization of Uganda’s Economy through

VACCINATION IS KEY TO ENDING THIS PANDEMIC

Of recent, I was asked while appearing on some TV show about the way out of this COVID19 pandemic and most especially the resumption of education activities. The answer is very obvious; vaccination. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has estimated that $50 billion is needed to ensure that everyone on planet earth is vaccinated against

WHAT IS NEXT? THE QUESTION THAT OUR LEADERS AND THE EDUCATION SYSTEM WILL ANSWER ON JUDGEMENT DAY.

Today, on my way  to office, I met four beautiful and handsome young men and women; seemingly recent graduates of the famous Makerere University’s 70th Graduation Cohort. They were not in the jubilant and party mood of two weeks ago. Rather, they were posing the question that most of us who have gone through the

AFRICAN INTELLECTUALISM: WHAT DEFINES A GENTLEMAN? SOCIETY OR PERSONALITY?

Written November 2016 It is a Thursday morning at about 10 o’clock and I am on my way to Bushenyi from Kampala. As anyone the ordeal of a university student, it is not an easy one most especially when it comes to dressing and walking like someone who has stepped into a lecture room. I

Trump, Bobi Wine, Zelenskiy: The Last Nail in the coffin of Political Elitism.

“He is a man with no previous political experience…………. How will Ukraine cope with its comic choice of president?” That was a BBC news headline on Monday 22nd April 2019 in reference to Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky’s emergence as winner of the Ukrainian presidential poll while a tweet from the defeated billionaire president Petro Poroshenko read

Africa’s Philosopher Kings: Museveni, Gadaffi, Nkrumah, Nyerere And Nasser. Politics Of Ideology Or Personality Cults?

INTRODUCTION. Around 375 BC, Greek philosopher Plato wrote the famous Socratic Dialogue The Republic centred around justice, the order and character of the just city-state and just man. It is Plato’s best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world’s most influential works of philosophy and political theory both intellectually and historically. In

UGANDA’S DEMOCRATIC AND GOVERNANCE TRAJECTORY: YOUTH PERSPECTIVES AND INSIGHTS INTO THE VALUE ADDITION OF THE AFRICAN PEER REVIEW MECHANISM AND ACDEG.

By Prosper Mubangizi The New Partnership for Africa’s Development commonly known by its acronym NEPAD has been hailed as one of the most important and promising regional initiatives to ever come out of the African Union. On July 3, 2001, the Millennium Partnership for the African Recovery Programme (MAP) and the OMEGA Plan were merged

TRUMP, BOBI WINE, ZELENSKIY: THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF POLITICAL ELITISM.

“He is a man with no previous political experience…………. How will Ukraine cope with its comic choice of president?” That was a BBC news headline on Monday 22nd April 2019 in reference to Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky’s emergence as winner of the Ukrainian presidential poll while a tweet from the defeated billionaire president Petro Poroshenko read

My First Blog Post

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