2016. Two events shaped the global news that year. The British Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s election victory over Senator Hillary Clinton in the United States Presidential elections. These two events were not supposed to happen, pollsters and political pundits were left jarring.
H.E President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in 2016 launched the Presidential Fast-Track Initiative on AIDS aimed at ending AIDS in Uganda by 2030, which was the first of its kind globally.
In 1990, the guild contest at Makerere was between Nobert Mao and Nobert Mayombo. In many ways, this contest defined and shaped student activism politics at Makerere University.
In the 1980s when Dr. Luc Montagnier of Pasteur Institute, a French research organization was busy feuding with Dr. Robert Gallo of the American National Cancer Institute over who found the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Ugandans were grappling with what had befallen them.
African Demographers, Statisticians and Planners sat in Addis Ababa Ethiopia in March 1984 and established the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), a Pan-African non-profit organization.
African Demographers, Statisticians and Planners sat in Addis Ababa Ethiopia in March 1984 and established the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), a Pan-African non-profit organization.
57 years. Dating back to 1962 from 2019, Uganda broke free from the chains of colonialism. Uganda effectively gained the opportunity to exercise self-governance.
Kwame Nkrumah, a Ghanaian politician, and revolutionary once summarized the view of colonialism as, the policy by which a foreign power binds territories to herself by political ties with the primary object of promoting her own economic advantage.
As we commemorate Uganda's 57th independence anniversary, we look back at an iconic profile - the man who had a straightforward yet historic task on that very pivotal day.
