Opinion

"Why didn't you tell me, mummy? I'm so upset!" "Tell you what?" "About George Floyd." My heart skipped a beat. My daughter is nine, and I had hoped to shield her from the brutality of that video. "I wanted to protect you," I…

As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, many people have reached out asking how we can sustain momentum to…

Throughout the centuries, competitors of the prevailing system have known that disaster presents them with an opportunity. Writing about the Black Death, which culled more than 40 per cent of Europe’s population, the historian David Herlihy…

By Fr. Paulino Mondo The family is where the human bond is honest: A story puts it that a mother lost her soldier son and the news of his death came to her in dispatches from the war. He had died while fighting nobly at the head of his…

For most people, watching the video of the violence that happened in Uganda's parliament, on September 26th 2017, an event that was covered by the media outlets around the world, It’s difficult to conceive any idea of how Hon Francis Zaake…

By Fr. Paulino Mondo The value of strategic planning and self-discipline are points that most Ugandans have delegated to some category of people, yet we all need these qualities at all times. There are things we learn in school while…

When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public—had…

By Denis Nabende In their 2010 paper “From disaster event to political crisis”, Professors Stuart Olso and Vincent Gawronski articulated what consequences governments can face in the wake of natural disasters. They highlighted how…

In the past two decades, there has been a marked increase in the involvement of military forces in the development activities that have traditionally been outside the military sphere. And this trend has been particularly evident in third…

The conflict theory, suggested by Karl Marx, claims society is in a state of perpetual conflict because of competition for limited resources. It holds that social order is maintained by domination and power, rather than consensus and…