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A Response to Tim Kalyegira on IQ
BY CORNELIUS GANDABILT
I've been obsessed with figuring out Uganda/Africa's problem. The last 5 years, I've called Uganda a low IQ society which is a FACT. The author hints on the real problem but his post is about IQ so the real issue…
Test of IQ and ability — Why educated Ugandans can’t transform their country
By Timothy Kalyegira
Note: I first wrote and posted this piece on May 14, 2017 on my Facebook wall.
Have a read through it if you missed it the last time. It might help you to understand why 100 years of Gayaza High School, Namilyango…
There is no Crisis of Succession in Uganda
In January 2023, we shall commence online studies for the Mwangaza African Revolutionary Study Groups across the country. This December, we shall shed more light on how the online ideological studies shall be conducted. In the meantime, we…
Museveni Slams European Hypocrisy On Energy Production
By Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
News from Europe that a vast windfarm is being demolished to make way for a new open-pit coal mine is the reprehensible double standard we in Africa have come to expect.
As Europeans switch their…
AFRICA’S RISE AND IT’S HURDLES
In the period between 1881 and 1914, there was an invasion, division, annexation, and colonialization of Africa by Western European countries.
In 1884, the German Chancellor, Otto von Bismark, called a meeting of 13 European leaders in…
The Bogeyman of International War Resurfaces
To respond to a barrage of snide comments we have encountered as we continue launching Mwangaza African Revolutionary Study Groups, we have decided to reproduce (a second time) our September 2021 article - which appeared earlier as “Biology…
A GENERAL, A QUEEN AND THE SUBTLE ART OF BEING HUMAN(E)
A friend of mine texted asking me to confirm if it was indeed true that Gen. Tumwiine had passed on. When I said I didn’t know, they wondered if I could find out (by asking a family member known to me). I said I could but would not. They…
Comment: The Politics of Survival and Party Mutations
Parties are a creature of like-minded promoters, who share a common vision, wishes and aspirations.
It is this nucleus that forms the nascent think-tank to generate refined ideas that attract other people to the party fold.
For the…
Comment: The End of History and Search for Nationalizing Ideology
By K David Mafabi
This piece is written as a prelude to our discussion next week, of the “Challenge of Take-Off”. For that purpose, we have borrowed extensively from a paper we presented to an NRM Parliamentary Caucus Retreat in February…
Tribute: Jacob was a man called, and in death a fruit fallen unripe
By Norbert Mao
In his work Twelfth Night, famous English playwright and wordsmith William Shakespeare tells us that “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.” Jacob Oulanyah L’okori, the late…