Museveni’s ‘new’ term and democracy in Uganda

On Saturday 20th February, Badru Kiggundu, the chairman of the outgoing Ugandan Electoral Commission, declared Yoweri Museveni the winner of the just-concluded presidential election. At the end of the new five-year term, his fifth as an elected president, Museveni will have ruled Uganda for 35 years.

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An ode to campus

Where students pick phone calls under the ‘No Use of Cell Phones’ sign in the library

Vestiges of humanity

The images of Aylan Kurdi prostrate on the surf-washed sands of a Turkish beach tore my heart, just as they did the hearts of pretty much everyone who saw them. The toddler, face in the sand, wearing a red shirt, black shoes, seems asleep until one remembers that he is on the beach and not… Continue reading Vestiges of humanity

A human shame

In today’s fast moving world, it is not uncommon for news items to go out of the global conversation table as soon as they appear. So it is not surprising that the United State’s Supreme Court decision to make gay unions equal to marriage in the whole country is already stale news.