There are virtually no banks owned by Ugandan Africans left in the country. By KALUNDI SERUMAGA
In this final part of a three-part series, KALUNDI SERUMAGA examines how the old imperial powers and a new entrant, China are gearing up for a...
One cannot understand the crisis of the neo-colonial state without understanding the class that inherited and feeds off it. By KALUNDI SERUMAGA
Africa’s middle class is akin to a "stay-behind" operation that sets up secret operatives in the territory it is vacating, says KALUNDI SERUMAGA
First, an “ancient” African fable. A chicken foraging somewhere in Africa’s bush came across a pawpaw tree that had grown diagonally instead of straight up. A...
In the sort-of beginning, there were just two hegemons. Both white, both male and both nuclear-tipped. Now everybody, it seems, can try to be the ultimate...
The realisation that the aspirations for democracy in our region seem to have all run into one kind of very large obstacle or another is increasingly...
In her subtly seminal work of fiction Dust, the novelist Yvonne Adhiambo Owour names “silence” as Kenya’s third official language, after English and Kiswahili. Kenya today is...
Kampala, Uganda – CUE THE STATISTICS. There is a rising concern in both government and welfare circles that the region could be on the brink of...
Kampala, Uganda – AN ASYMMETRICAL CONFLICT WITH A SHAPE-SHIFTING ENEMY There were two historic junctures at which the journey to the current ever-globalising quagmire of the...