Thirty one years since General Yoweri Museveni’s National Resisitance Army marched into Kampala and brought an end to over a decade of chaos, Uganda has stabilised into one of the most powerful countries in East Africa and Horn of the continent. Still, one of the world’s youngest populations is faced with major challenges. The Elephant examines some of them.
As Christians fall out over gay rights, the Ugandan state, built on martyrs resisting alleged homosexuality, has some soul-searching to do.
Beyond service delivery, refugee-led organizations are increasingly involved in advocacy yet the current set-up within the field of humanitarian governance continues to relegate them to the...
Uganda has never qualified for the World Cup, but at a continental level it is making a comeback. So is its club football.
Human rights are not “politics” as such; they are what comes up as an issue once politics fails. To avoid, or even fix a human rights...
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline has been thrown into the spotlight as investors raise concerns about environmentally damaging companies issuing debt labelled “sustainable”.
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With William Ruto’s ascension to the presidency, we now have a string of governments in the East African region that hold no genuine or valuable ideological...
In the second of a three-part series, A.K. Kaiza reflects on the work of anthropologist Frank Knowles Girling whose research—now published in Lawino’s People— was buried...
In the first of a three-part series, A.K. Kaiza reflects on the renowned author and wonders whether Okot p’Bitek might have published other works as powerful...
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Debate in Uganda has recently been dominated by the question of reform of the mailo land tenure system. Will reform put an end to the rampant...