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    While Museveni Eats the Country Away

    Museveni is the pumpkin root that Ugandans should focus on uprooting, not Anita Among.

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    Whose Palms

    A searing meditation on black labour, memory, exile, and civilisation.

    Kabedoopong Piddo Ddibe'st

    Inside The Famous Kigo Prison Walls

    Crowded Cells, Silent Voices, and the Politics of Confinement

    Akampurira Agapito

    African Opposition and Activists at a Crossroads

    To claim sovereignty while clipping people’s voices is blatant irony; Africa should first free itself from the barbarism of its African leaders.

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    The Sovereignty Lie: A Bill to Silence a Nation

    Konrad Hirsch (The Critique Magazine) Interviews Dr Lina Zedriga, Acting NUP President, on the Protection of Sovereignty Bill, 2026.

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    Civil Society and Judicial Oversight in Restraining Over-Enforcement of Pharmaceutical IP Rights in Uganda

    Between Patent Protection and Public Health: Uganda’s Struggle for Equilibrium

    MUTARYEBWA EDGAR

    Beyond the Visit of Pope Leo XIV: Africa Must Build Its Own Peace and Progress

    Until we stop waiting for solutions from outside, we will keep postponing the power that already lies within us.

    ABESON ALEX

    Sovereignty or Control?

    A Young Ugandan’s Call for Clarity, Accountability, and Balance

    ABESON ALEX

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    Uganda: The Most Expensive Country in the World

    Konrad Hirsch

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    What should the government prioritise when resources are limited?

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    African Day Message by Prof. PLO Lumumba

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    What Is Wrong with President Museveni's Parish Development Model?

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    The Speakership, the Sacrificial Lamb, and the Logic of Power in Uganda

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    After the National Students’ Health Conference: Why prioritise a pleasure over a biological natural reality? The question of the condoms over Pads.

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    It Is Our Business: Where Is Sam Mugumya?

    Godwin Muwanguzi

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    Uganda: The Most Expensive Country in the World

    Anyone who knows East Africa knows that the most dangerous sentence is not “I have a gun.” It is: “Don’t worry about the money.”

    Konrad Hirsch

    Jun 06

    What should the government prioritise when resources are limited?

    A Budget Is a Moral Document: What Uganda’s Spending Priorities Reveal About Education, Healthcare, and the Future of the Nation.

    ABESON ALEX

    Jun 06

    African Day Message by Prof. PLO Lumumba

    Let us be Pan-Africanists in deed, not just in word.

    ABESON ALEX

    Jun 06

    What Is Wrong with President Museveni's Parish Development Model?

    Development is not merely the transfer of funds. Development is the transfer of capacity.

    ABESON ALEX

    Jun 06

    The Speakership, the Sacrificial Lamb, and the Logic of Power in Uganda

    "Politics is not about morality. It is about power." — Niccolò Machiavelli

    ABESON ALEX

    Jun 06

    After the National Students’ Health Conference: Why prioritise a pleasure over a biological natural reality? The question of the condoms over Pads.

    A girl cannot postpone menstruation because she lacks money. She cannot negotiate with biology. She cannot "abstain" from her menstrual cycle.

    ABESON ALEX

    Jun 06

    It Is Our Business: Where Is Sam Mugumya?

    Museveni has become a man he once condemned.

    Godwin Muwanguzi

    Jun 06

    While Museveni Eats the Country Away

    Museveni is the pumpkin root that Ugandans should focus on uprooting, not Anita Among.

    The Critique Magazine

    May 16

    Fate, You Owe Me

    A fierce reckoning with suffering, stolen dreams, and the refusal to remain broken by pain.

    Adio Daizy

    May 09

    Whose Palms

    A searing meditation on black labour, memory, exile, and civilisation.

    Kabedoopong Piddo Ddibe'st

    May 09

    Inside The Famous Kigo Prison Walls

    Crowded Cells, Silent Voices, and the Politics of Confinement

    Akampurira Agapito

    May 09

    African Opposition and Activists at a Crossroads

    To claim sovereignty while clipping people’s voices is blatant irony; Africa should first free itself from the barbarism of its African leaders.

    The Critique Magazine

    May 09

    What should the government prioritise when resources are limited?

    ABESON ALEX

    African Day Message by Prof. PLO Lumumba

    ABESON ALEX

    Uganda: The Most Expensive Country in the World

    Anyone who knows East Africa knows that the most dangerous sentence is not “I have a gun.” It is: “Don’t worry about the money.”

    Konrad Hirsch

    What Is Wrong with President Museveni's Parish Development Model?

    ABESON ALEX

    The Speakership, the Sacrificial Lamb, and the Logic of Power in Uganda

    ABESON ALEX

    After the National Students’ Health Conference: Why prioritise a pleasure over a biological natural reality? The question of the condoms over Pads.

    ABESON ALEX

    It Is Our Business: Where Is Sam Mugumya?

    Godwin Muwanguzi

    Sources & Activism

    Dr Lina Zedriga Waru’s charge sheet reeks of legal errors: A case study in prosecutorial incompetence

    Kakwenza Rukirabashaija

    “Mama Lina” and the Charge That Turns Reality Upside Down

    Konrad Hirsch

    The Tale of Two Voices

    Turyagumanawe Promise

    Why Repression Only Expands Kyagulanyi’s Influence

    Akampurira Agapito

    Global Watch

    African Day Message by Prof. PLO Lumumba

    ABESON ALEX

    African Opposition and Activists at a Crossroads

    The Critique Magazine

    Beyond the Visit of Pope Leo XIV: Africa Must Build Its Own Peace and Progress

    ABESON ALEX

    The Fight for Power, Fragmentation, and Africa’s Developmental Paradox

    ABESON ALEX

    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

    Voices & Stories

    They Photographed My Home: But I Still Have to Live in It.

    Hans Senfuma

    Fouled prayers for Dr Besigye and political prisoners: Has the god from Rwatikura usurped the power of the Almighty God?

    Mwene Businge

    When God Becomes a Weapon

    Hans Senfuma

    Obote Has Ruled Us So Badly

    Godwin Muwanguzi

    Features & Analysis

    Uganda: The Most Expensive Country in the World

    Konrad Hirsch

    What Is Wrong with President Museveni's Parish Development Model?

    ABESON ALEX

    The Speakership, the Sacrificial Lamb, and the Logic of Power in Uganda

    ABESON ALEX

    It Is Our Business: Where Is Sam Mugumya?

    Godwin Muwanguzi