Transforming Uganda - AllenBaguma

PROF MUGANGA: UGANDA MUST STRENGTHEN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE ECONOMY FIRST

Disclaimer first. This rejoinder is my personal opinion as a private citizen. The article I am responding to was authored by Prof Lawrence Muganga, Vice Chancellor, Victoria University, as an ‘Open Letter’ to President Museveni ( see https://www.observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81604-dear-mr-president-here-s-why-uganda-should-accelerate-technology-growth). My response is not an official government position, much less a response from President Museveni. It is […]

TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: LET US BEGIN WITH THE BASICS

·”It’s not merely the abundance of attractions but the excellence of our ancillary services that matter. Consider the Pissing Man in Brussels, which draws 3 million tourists annually; we can aspire to achieve the same.” – Matsiko Kahunga ‘Hands-up here, if outside your gate, you can walk 200 metres barefoot…or even 500…let’s discount the outliers. […]

NSSF: Seven-Hills run is cool … But Insufficient

‘…Byarugaba Ayota looked at Uganda the way a farmer looks at his garden…he tended it, watered it, enriched it with fertiliser and let others enjoy its fruits’… This is Mzee BSN at his witty self. Tickled by the latest skit from NSSF, namely the Seven-Hills run in aid of disadvantaged pupils in Kampala’s public schools. […]

Banning Imported Toilet Paper will ‘Teach’ Ugandans to drink Coffee

“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 […]

Raising Voices: A Value Shift for our Society

Dear Ugandans, Our voices have to be raised Now or Never. I am writing because “To be silent amidst a series of challenges we face as a nation is to wallow in a fat lie”. Fellow Ugandans, far too long, our values have been misplaced, and the consequences are now evident in our communities and […]

Discover the Magic of Uganda the Pearl of Africa

“Uganda is a fairy-tale. You climb up a railway instead of a beanstalk, and at the end, there is a wonderful new world.” – Winston Churchill Discover the Magic of Uganda: A Journey Through the Pearl of Africa Ah Uganda, what a beautiful part of the world she is! Uganda is a country full of […]

INFORMALITY: Let us begin where it MATTERS Most

It is possible to reduce informality in Uganda’s human capital. ‘…even these high-level economists are telling us lower high school economics…things we should have graduated from ages ago…informality is very easy to manage…shouldn’t be a subject of this level of national economy debate.’ Mzee BSN was taken aback by the findings of the Poverty Status […]

SMEs ARE BUSINESSES, NOT CHARITIES

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 […]

Uganda @60 still needs women economic reforms

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, […]

‘Uganda’s Local Govt’s have a Weak Local Revenue Base’…Lame Excuse

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 […]

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Memoirs…Ugandans are not Genetically lazy

For Your Memories…October 21, 2010. ‘UGANDANS LAZIEST IN EAST AFRICA’, screamed New Vision lead header, Thursday, Yet nothing could be farther from the truth. Nkore -Karagwe wisdom has it that ‘ekihimbya omusi, ni ekiri omu nseiso’ (she who is grinding is motivated by what she is grinding). Uganda has the worst human resource development policy […]

SCIENCES can only have Meaning in a Given CONTEXT

I must applaud my teachers at Makerere University, Prof. Oswald Ndoleriire and Dr. Sallie Simba Kayunga on their position regarding the sciences hype by government. This was the very same hype that greeted us over 20 years ago as we joined university at the time government scrapped students’ allowances, arguing that the monies saved were […]

BTVET: LET’S DELETE ‘B’ AND ‘V’; AND WE ADD ‘A’

Skills. Yes, we do need them as a country and economy, for the present and the future, including saving the planet. The latest we have from the BTVET ‘alliance’ (https://www.education.go.ug/btvet/ )is the modular training plan: a P.7 (Primary seven) leaver can attend a welding course ‘module’ for a few months, enter the world of work, […]

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