Tag: Development
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The presidential initiative Emyooga what is it?
“Is Emyooga an acronym or a word in a Ugandan language?” This question was put to me by a colleague, a non-Ugandan, a prolific thinker, who does extensive empirical research in Uganda. And it dawned on me that even though I was actively discussing Emyooga I really didn’t know what it is and what it […]
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Value of Ancestors’ Graves
The hypothesis being that one can tell who the current actors on Uganda’s land scene are by how they answer the question: “What is the value of my ancestors’ graves?” Particularly, in the context of the increasing possibility that one might be forced to value one’s ancestors’ remains and their graves, when a particular kind […]
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Iteso Food Degraded – Atap Composition
There is evidence that ‘Urban-slumitisation’ of Iteso villages, which is done in the name of “development” or “modernization” and which has stealthily changed the way in which land and food crops are utilized, has significantly contributed to degrading the composition of atap. Atap of millet. Atap, often mistranslated as millet bread, is the staple food […]
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2018/19 Budget 2 be Disregarded 2
It has become the norm for the president to issue decrees that re-allocate resources from one approved budget vote to another un-budgeted vote. What does this say about all those civil servants and politicians who made and approved the plans and budgets or were with him when they made or approved the budgets? How does […]
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Loans can’t bail out our rural poor
In light of the failure of multiple ‘well meaning’ programmes of Government of Uganda and of so-called Civil Society Organisations to achieve their overstated targeted to “eradicate poverty” through the provision of loans to the poor, it is opportune to re-publish the views that I expressed in an interview that was published in The New […]
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