“UCDA should transform from an authority into a profit-driven value-chain manager in a public-private partnership with global coffee giants like Nestlé.” “Import substitution manufacturing is key to creating a productive, rich middle-class Uganda that will drink coffee.” Coincidence perhaps. We had been musing over Mzee Mashurubu’ s Lockdown Exam questions. One such piercing question stated […]
The family business question in Uganda …since 1853 (Levi Strauss)…since 1759 (Guinness)…since 1906 (KIWI)… since 1986 (Hotloaf). You have read these and others. Anything special about this word ‘Since’? It communicates one key message: the resilience of these companies, virtually all of which were started as family businesses, as evidenced in brands like Guinness, Nestlé, […]
SMEs are Businesses and not charities Prominent Industrialist, the late Dr. James Mulwana (Rest in Peace) was once quoted by the media, calling on government to force foreign companies to support SMEs, for the latter to overcome the many challenges they face, especially competition against foreign big companies. Whereas they do need support, SMEs are […]
As Uganda Celebrates 60years of independence on the 9th of October, this year 2022 with the theme ‘A declaration of African Interdependence and our shared destiny.’ · Uganda still needs women economic reforms even though their are progress made in interventions such as increased women in the legislation process, governance, with affirmative actions in education, […]
One fact to be remembered about Mr. Ngoma Ngime when he served as RDC in Mbarara, was the learning and familiarisation tours he organized regularly for district leaders. At the end of one such tour, during a cock tail at the Uganda High Commissioner’s residence in Nairobi, he lamented why Ugandan farmers cannot adopt the […]
‘…perhaps its founders had other thoughts about it…but it has now become a game-changer in our development trajectory. Its impact is seen and felt everywhere …’ The Executive Director at the Sage Fund was concluding his speech at the opening ceremony for Sage Leather Works, a multibillion leather complex in the city industrial park, one […]
It all started with American Presidential aspirant, Donald Trump. ‘This guy is very blunt’, is the spontaneous reaction of my team member as we digest what Trump had just said about Africans, capping it with the vow to deport them from the USA, once he enters Capitol Hill. ‘People who even import match sticks’, he […]
Reviving Uganda’s Textile Sector: We Need a Dose of Gandhism ‘Sir, I have three hundred workers…unemployed. And families to feed…please …’ ‘….I have three hundred million back in India……’ We return to this shortly. The latest from the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Cooperatives (MTIC) is that Uganda is set to revamp its textile industry, […]
”Yes. It is possible and urgent to have universal health insurance. It will attract quality investment in our health sector including pharmaceutical manufacturing” Universal Health Insurance Does Not Replace Health Centres The debate will not end till we have the scheme in place: Universal Health Insurance for all Ugandans. And the latest defender of no-insurance […]
One popular saying in the interlacustrine region of East Africa (also known as the Great Lakes), goes thus in one of my Grandmas’ tongues: ow’omutwe muhango, n’obu otariisize, noyonesa, meaning once you are notoriously known for being careless with your flock, and it often destroys neighbours’ crops, even the day your flock is securely tethered […]
“Uganda needs brick and mortar resource-based and light technology industrialisation to create massive jobs that will see us importing manpower in a period of five years or less” Ben Kahunga Matsiko In the case of Uganda, this is how the legislation will create jobs… The latest we have from Parliament, inter alia, is Hon Paul […]