Uganda’s highest peak still bears the name of an Italian queen who never set foot on the mountain. King Oyo did — reaching its summit and using the climb to draw attention to the disappearing Rwenzori glaciers. Now, Uganda has an opportunity to honour a young king who earned the summit by renaming it in his memory.
A high income does not guarantee financial security. Uganda’s growing professional class risks earning more, spending more and accumulating assets without building the liquidity, diversification and retirement capital needed to sustain their lives when work stops.
Uganda’s 2031 transition must be bigger than one individual. The real test is whether the country can change leaders peacefully, predictably and constitutionally — with political power remaining in the hands of the Ugandan people.
Most employers, if asked, would say they would rather hire an average performer who is disciplined than a brilliant one who is not. So, as we review and redesign the curriculum around competence, we must resist the temptation to treat Character and Citizenship Education as a footnote. Yes, measuring a values-based curriculum is harder than measuring a skills-based one. Yet it is not impossible, and we can build and refine it patiently, provided we do not leave character formation out altogether.
But the most poignant is their 2013 song, You Can’t Make Old Friends. A tribute to their 30 years of friendship, it was clear they were saying goodbye to each other. Written by Kenny Rogers, it was an admission that very soon one of them, or both, would not be there to sing with the other.
The unveiling of Pearl Sweet is therefore a turning point. It demonstrates that Uganda is moving steadily from exploration to production, from potential to reality. Oil revenues, when strategically invested, will modernise agriculture, expand infrastructure, and finance social services the pillars of a middle‑income economy.
Uganda must move from being AI-ready in principle to being infrastructure-ready in practice. Tomorrow’s test is whether it has the power, compute, fibre and people to run that economy.
Volunteerism, as Mother Teresa’s Nobel Peace Prize showed, is not just noble but central to national development.
Crowned at 20, Kaboyo lost his throne at 21, regained it after 26 years. he died at 49. Kaboyo told the driver: “Take me to my kingdom. I don’t want to die from here. Omukama has to die in his kingdom.” At around 1:00am, a visibly sad-looking Kaboyo sat in the back seat of his car, and his final journey from Kampala started. Not long after arriving in Toro, he developed more stomach upsets. He then collapsed and died on August 26, 1995. His sister, Bagaya, collected samples of his vomit to test and ascertain the cause of his death.
When a journalist asked Ali whether he would assist the former president, Idi Amin, to return home from exile in Saudi Arabia, he answered: “That is his problem if he wants to return. I have too many things to do. I do not have time to think for him. I did not even meet him while in Saudi the other day.” Five months after Ali made those comments, Amin died while still in exile in Saudi Arabia and is buried there. Therefore, Amin died before he reconciled with his former finance minister, Ali.
Stop vetting potential partners like you are hiring for a corporate board; you are choosing a partner for a long road trip. You need to experience the person before you declare them the best lover. You have to keep pushing through long stretches of mental and physical strain, even when you are tired, frustrated or doubting the outcome. The couples that succeed are not necessarily the ones who had it easy, but those who kept fighting for the love, day after day.
Amin’s message to Ali was ordering them to travel to Malire Barracks and monitor the activities of pro-Obote soldiers. Ali and Doka hastily went to the Officers’ Mess (now Buganda Katikkiro’s residence, Butikkiro) and found that officers perceived to be anti-Obote were practically under arrest, waiting for an address from the commanding officer of Malire, Lt Col Augustino Akwangu. Exiting from the Officers’ Mess, Ali fooled the military guards that he was sent to deliver a note to Akwangu.
Our marriage failure is not a sudden, unexplained illness. We know the causes, but still hope they will stop at the neighbour’s. Meanwhile, we spend all our energy trying to fix marriages that were fundamentally broken before they even began. It is like trying to turn a single-story house into a skyscraper without adjusting the foundation.
Among and Namujju joined Parliament at the same time and, therefore, became the best of friends. Namujju used to visit Among, and they chatted inside Among’s lavish bedroom. During their chats, they disclosed to each other their wealth, investment plans, marriage issues and future political plans.
At the beginning of 2003, Matembe revealed her New Year’s resolution, stating: “I want to get closer to God so that He can control my life.” During that year, she, along with fellow ministers, Bidandi Ssali, Eriya Kategaya and Sarah Kiyingi, vehemently opposed the scrapping of presidential term limits from the 1995 Constitution. Her stand put her at conflict with those who wanted term limits scrapped for Museveni to vie again for presidency in 2006.
Men aren’t emotionally fortified to handle their wives’ adultery; it carries strong connotations of shame, ridicule and emasculation. In some societies, a man whose wife cheats is deemed sexually weak, powerless and unworthy of respect. Men cannot comprehend a wife who cheats, gets pregnant, deceives them on paternity, continues to deliver the baby and bring it into a man’s brood.
Soon after Besigye’s election petition was dismissed, Lukwago served as the attorney of Besigye’s partner, Winnie Byanyima, when she was charged with sedition before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate, Catherine Bamugemeire, on April 17, 2001.
According to Lubega, Ugandans are employed in sectors such as education, healthcare, engineering, mechanics, transport and entrepreneurship, reducing direct competition with locals in low-skilled jobs that often become flashpoints during anti-immigrant campaigns.
For East Africa, these disruptions have tested the resilience of economies where trade contributes at least 50% of GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet disruption is also accelerating investment in regional trade, alternative corridors, digital trade systems and intra-African market integration.
Much as Among received and appreciated financial donations from Ekemu, Nandala and Kajeke, she pushed for a largely strategic friendship with Michael Kabaziguruka upon realising that he was closer to Besigye than her aforesaid male friends in FDC.