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Three weeks ago, Makerere University held its annual graduation ceremony: the 70th, to be exact. There were a bout 13,509 graduands who were awarded various degrees and diplomas in all the pragmatic and not so pragmatic stuff that our beloved…
Continue readingLast week was anti-corruption week. To show how serious things have become, the government organized an anti-corruption walk against itself. There was a ‘Chief Walker’ and the central business district was literally cut off. As usual there was mayhem with…
Continue readingThrough out the eighties and nineties, the buzzword in economic management was liberalization. Arising out of the ‘Washington Consensus’, and the reforms of Margaret Thatcher in the UK, we in the third world were convinced that the only way to…
Continue readingThe President of Uganda has just finished appointing a 76-member cabinet and I must confess I know not more than five or so of the appointees in that cabinet. So I must start by apologizing to them if my thoughts…
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