Daniel K. Kalinaki
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Wait for Karimojong to build brick houses then give them iron sheets
It is one thing to be disarmed by the UPDF, another to turn one’s Ak-47 into a few iron sheets. But what kind of emasculation must a warrior undergo to lose the would-be roof over his head to a... → Read More
A year after Mutebile’s passing, whose economy is it anyway?
Bartering maize for transformers might have been one way to side-step the acute lack of foreign exchange, but it was always going to end in failure as an economic policy → Read More
Off to a good oil start, but watch the light at the end of the tunnel
Oil revenues can breathe life into the economy but, as Ghana shows, sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is an on-coming train. Choo! Choo! → Read More
We turned schools into profit centres, we can’t now turn them into charities
Kindergartens charge so much for so little because they are so few. I do not know of any public (government-owned) day care centre or kindergarten, so they are purely profit-driven enterprises → Read More
Hon. Amongi, I have some questions about the things going on at NSSF
The first is a long laundry list of alleged bad investments, expenditures and inflated prices submitted by some petitioners to the Inspector General of Government → Read More
Great societies are built on small things – and states – that work
Just so we are clear, therefore, the New Year’s Eve stampede at Freedom City Mall in Kampala that left at least 10 people dead is not a uniquely Ugandan problem, or one that cannot happen elsewhere. → Read More
40 years on, looking back at thehope buried in the tragedy of HIV/Aids
What is less acknowledged is the role of religious leaders who saved lives by putting aside their usual sanctimonious ways and embracing people affected by the disease → Read More
Ssemogerere’s race is run, but the fight to silence the guns continues
All that the 1980 elections served was to show that Obote’s army had a viable political party, in UPC, while Museveni’s UPM stood no chance → Read More
A bit of kindness and patience on the road will improve traffic, happiness
Given how narrow most of our roads are, this advantage is always short-lived; before long, there’s an on-coming car which requires the overtaking driver to get back into their lane → Read More
How to grab a piece of land in Wakiso and surrounding areas
If the seller is an elderly person, you might want to wait for them to die or become senile before you pounce. Ideally → Read More
We must act and be present, for we are the ones we have been waiting for
If we are to build a better country we must start with community-level mobilisation → Read More
The hybrid ‘despotic democracy’ isn’t working. Time to choose one
Merely changing guard will not do. Without a recalibration of the centres of power or the incentives for those who wield it, anyone who takes power could rule the country in the same manner → Read More
Forgotten voters and the empty promise of our politics – part II
High population growth rates lock people into cyclical inter-generational poverty → Read More
Forgotten voters and the empty promise of our political equation
If voting for the incumbent is a ticket to “development”, the good people of Buyende have done their part → Read More
Crime in the city: Kampala is now in the bloody hands of gangsters
Today crime statistics have become portraits on coffins as the angel of crime death visits one family after another → Read More
In Uganda, the West’s moment of leopard disembarkation is nigh
There are fears that once the regime lays its hands on the petrodollars from exporting this oil, Uganda can kiss progressive political reform goodbye → Read More
If we act truthfully, we need not worry about the lies and the liars
Most people would not worry about any law coming out of Parliament if they were certain that the Executive would enforce it without political partisanship → Read More
Computer law written by a sad man just out of dark damp cave
The Computer Misuse Bill reads like something written by someone with a bad headache who had just been released into the sunlight after a long time in solitary confinement in a dark, damp cave → Read More
Merit determines whether what rises to the top is cream, or filth
The chief executive looked across the table, took a deep breath, then responded curtly but calmly. ‘With due respect sir, do you really think my contract renewal has anything to do with you?’ → Read More
Will Uber, won’t pay. Will we ever run out of corners to cut?
Two new scams have now emerged. In the first one, the driver accepts a trip then changes his mind but refuses to cancel so that the cancellation charge is paid by the rider → Read More