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    We have done the maths, Your Excellency

    No amount of bullets can erase the enduring reality of a society and its grievance, memory, or its unextinguishable demand for dignity.

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State

    Why Mahmood Mamdani’s Slow Poison Demands Structural, Not Moral, Reading

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    "We have 54,000 police officers; each has about 120 bullets. Do the Maths.”

    Coercive Arithmetic, Electoral Sincerity, and the Rhetorical Displacement of Democratic Persuasion in Uganda.

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    The Uganda Media Week Closure: Why This Year’s Celebration Must Be Marked as a Turning Point for This Nation’s Fourth Estate

    As Technology Advances, Can Journalism Keep Its Soul?

    Akampurira Agapito

    Come this new year, and why they keep laughing at us

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Parliament, the great Ugandan buffet

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    When Ants Vote for Insecticide: A Political Parable for Uganda’s Moment

    The ants do not vote for life, for reform, or for balance. They vote against the cockroach.

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    The Anatomy of Betrayal

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    When I Visited Hell

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    Frozen Russian Central Bank Assets and Third-State Responsibility

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Vote and Go Home, or Vote and Protect the Vote?

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

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    When I Visited Hell

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    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

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    Come this new year, and why they keep laughing at us

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

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    When Ants Vote for Insecticide: A Political Parable for Uganda’s Moment

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

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    The Anatomy of Betrayal

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Frozen Russian Central Bank Assets and Third-State Responsibility

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    The Death of Morality and the Loss of Values in African Politics

    ABESON ALEX

    The Mismanagement of Politics: Africa’s Enduring Development Crisis

    ABESON ALEX

    Voices & Stories

    Uganda Media Week 2025, Opens Amid Concerns Over Press Freedom Ahead of Elections

    Akampurira Agapito

    Beyond Politics: The Cry for Human Dignity and Justice

    ABESON ALEX

    The Dispute

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    For God’s Sake, What is Love Without Tolerance?

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    Features & Analysis

    When Ants Vote for Insecticide: A Political Parable for Uganda’s Moment

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Come this new year, and why they keep laughing at us

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Parliament, the great Ugandan buffet

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    When I Visited Hell

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    When ballots bow to bullets

    On deception, force, and the erosion of democratic choice

    Beyoreka Junior

    Uganda Media Week 2025, Opens Amid Concerns Over Press Freedom Ahead of Elections

    A timely conversation on journalism, regulation, and democracy.

    Akampurira Agapito

    When Handcuffs Become Government Policy

    Inside Uganda’s Politics of Fear, Silence, and Unlawful Detention.

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    Reclaim your writing: Why Writing the Hard Way is the Only Shortcut to Authentic Mastery.

    Why letting AI write for us risks erasing originality and grit.

    MUNUNUZI TIMOTHY KISAKYE

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    When Ants Vote for Insecticide: A Political Parable for Uganda’s Moment

    The ants do not vote for life, for reform, or for balance. They vote against the cockroach.

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Jan 11

    Come this new year, and why they keep laughing at us

    A Satirical–Existential Discourse Observed from Nowhere

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Jan 10

    Parliament, the great Ugandan buffet

    In Uganda, Parliament does not steal. It eats. It consumes. It multiplies.

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    Jan 10

    The Anatomy of Betrayal

    Decoding the Capture Narrative of Nicolás Maduro

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Jan 04

    When I Visited Hell

    The Comforting Lie of the Ballot

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    Jan 03

    Frozen Russian Central Bank Assets and Third-State Responsibility

    An Academic Analysis of Legality Where the Armed Conflict Is Russia–Ukraine, Not Europe.

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Dec 21

    Vote and Go Home, or Vote and Protect the Vote?

    An Academic and Legal Discourse in the Ugandan Context, with Comparative Democratic Benchmarks.

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Dec 21

    We have done the maths, Your Excellency

    No amount of bullets can erase the enduring reality of a society and its grievance, memory, or its unextinguishable demand for dignity.

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Dec 21

    Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State

    Why Mahmood Mamdani’s Slow Poison Demands Structural, Not Moral, Reading

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Dec 21

    "We have 54,000 police officers; each has about 120 bullets. Do the Maths.”

    Coercive Arithmetic, Electoral Sincerity, and the Rhetorical Displacement of Democratic Persuasion in Uganda.

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Dec 21

    The Uganda Media Week Closure: Why This Year’s Celebration Must Be Marked as a Turning Point for This Nation’s Fourth Estate

    As Technology Advances, Can Journalism Keep Its Soul?

    Akampurira Agapito

    Dec 18

    When ballots bow to bullets

    On deception, force, and the erosion of democratic choice

    Beyoreka Junior

    Dec 18

    Sources & Activism

    Why Repression Only Expands Kyagulanyi’s Influence

    Akampurira Agapito

    The Hair, the Faith, And the Law: When Dreadlocks Become Evidence of Devotion

    Arinaitwe Reagan

    Press Freedoms in Uganda on Trial

    Akampurira Agapito

    Call from Karamoja

    Konrad Hirsch

    Culture & Critique

    The African Voter

    Godwin Muwanguzi

    “Enugu”—The Bitter Choir That Claps When You Fail

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

    Selvi

    Shrutha Lokanath

    Gay or not Gay, Activist or not Activist: There is Nothing “In-between”.

    Godwin Muwanguzi