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    Uganda’s Electoral Trajectory: Power, Legitimacy, and the Battle for the Democratic Future

    ABESON ALEX

    When Poverty Replaces Policy: Youth Elections and the Crisis of Democratic Participation in Uganda

    ABESON ALEX

    Monument of Pride

    A poetic reflection on how stories of past glory are passed down, while younger generations quietly carry the burdens and consequences left behind.

    Akoragye Edgar

    A Conditioned Choice: BVVK Failures, Voter Relocation, and the Question of Popular Will in Uganda.

    ABESON ALEX

    From Survival to Vision: Awakening the Builders Within Us.

    ABESON ALEX

    Turnout, Power, and the Missing Link of Civic Education in Uganda’s Electoral Process

    ABESON ALEX

    Your Excellency’s Mouthpiece: Uganda’s Multi-Billion Shilling Industry of Praise

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    Innocence Is a Crime Scene

    In Uganda, freedom is guaranteed—just not immediately, not equally, and not without inconvenience.

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    What Is Literature Without Resistance, or Political Writing?

    What role is a writer detached from their societal realities—politics, suffering?

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    The Right to Education Without Political Voice

    Protecting learners or limiting agency? Uganda’s challenge in keeping schools neutral during election seasons.

    MUTARYEBWA EDGAR

    What Kills Uganda Under Museveni

    Uganda dies politely—through ritual elections, obedient silence, and injustice carefully renamed stability.

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    Ugandans Who Cried ´WOLF´

    From ballot lines to New Year greetings, Uganda perfects the art of endurance—where wolves rule and “I’m fine” means nothing is.

    Asiimwe Esther Peace

    Obote Has Ruled Us So Badly

    Power in Uganda no longer persuades; it abducts, intimidates, and demands loyalty—while democracy is reduced to ceremony.

    Godwin Muwanguzi

    The U.S. Withdrawal from the World Health Organisation and its Implications for Uganda's Public Health System

    How the U.S. exit from WHO fractures global health governance and threatens Uganda’s ability to realise the right to health.

    MUTARYEBWA EDGAR

    Nobody Talks About This: When Hope Hurts More Than It Helps

    Why telling people to “keep hope alive” can be cruel—and why confronting reality is often the more humane act.

    MUNUNUZI TIMOTHY KISAKYE

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    Monument of Pride

    A poetic reflection on how stories of past glory are passed down, while younger generations quietly carry the burdens and consequences left behind.

    Akoragye Edgar

    Feb 05

    Uganda’s Electoral Trajectory: Power, Legitimacy, and the Battle for the Democratic Future

    Uganda’s political and electoral history is not merely a record of elections held and winners declared.

    ABESON ALEX

    Feb 05

    When Poverty Replaces Policy: Youth Elections and the Crisis of Democratic Participation in Uganda

    Reimagining Youth Political Participation Beyond Poverty and Patronage

    ABESON ALEX

    Feb 05

    A Conditioned Choice: BVVK Failures, Voter Relocation, and the Question of Popular Will in Uganda.

    If Uganda is to protect its democratic future, electoral management must be treated as a public trust, not a technical exercise shielded from accountability.

    ABESON ALEX

    Feb 05

    From Survival to Vision: Awakening the Builders Within Us.

    To awaken the soul of a people is to remind them that they are more than their wounds. That their story does not end in survival, but continues in legacy.

    ABESON ALEX

    Feb 05

    Turnout, Power, and the Missing Link of Civic Education in Uganda’s Electoral Process

    Voter turnout is not merely a numerical indicator of participation; it is a political signal.

    ABESON ALEX

    Feb 05

    Your Excellency’s Mouthpiece: Uganda’s Multi-Billion Shilling Industry of Praise

    Why work when you can worship? Why innovate when you can inflate egos?

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    Feb 05

    Innocence Is a Crime Scene

    In Uganda, freedom is guaranteed—just not immediately, not equally, and not without inconvenience.

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    Feb 05

    What Is Literature Without Resistance, or Political Writing?

    What role is a writer detached from their societal realities—politics, suffering?

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    Feb 05

    The Right to Education Without Political Voice

    Protecting learners or limiting agency? Uganda’s challenge in keeping schools neutral during election seasons.

    MUTARYEBWA EDGAR

    Feb 05

    What Kills Uganda Under Museveni

    Uganda dies politely—through ritual elections, obedient silence, and injustice carefully renamed stability.

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

    Feb 01

    Ugandans Who Cried ´WOLF´

    From ballot lines to New Year greetings, Uganda perfects the art of endurance—where wolves rule and “I’m fine” means nothing is.

    Asiimwe Esther Peace

    Feb 01

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    When Poverty Replaces Policy: Youth Elections and the Crisis of Democratic Participation in Uganda

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    Your Excellency’s Mouthpiece: Uganda’s Multi-Billion Shilling Industry of Praise

    Abdullatif Khalid Eberhard

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    Sources & Activism

    The Tale of Two Voices

    Turyagumanawe Promise

    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

    Features & Analysis

    Uganda’s Electoral Trajectory: Power, Legitimacy, and the Battle for the Democratic Future

    ABESON ALEX

    When Poverty Replaces Policy: Youth Elections and the Crisis of Democratic Participation in Uganda

    ABESON ALEX

    A Conditioned Choice: BVVK Failures, Voter Relocation, and the Question of Popular Will in Uganda.

    ABESON ALEX

    Turnout, Power, and the Missing Link of Civic Education in Uganda’s Electoral Process

    ABESON ALEX

    Global Watch

    The U.S. Withdrawal from the World Health Organisation and its Implications for Uganda's Public Health System

    MUTARYEBWA EDGAR

    Unilateral Economic Sanctions, Trade Law, and Institutional Constraint in the Trump Era

    MUTARYEBWA EDGAR

    Minerals of War is a Weak Organisation

    Arthur Blick

    Uganda after the election: Victory declared, opposition persecuted, people disappeared

    Konrad Hirsch

    Voices & Stories

    Fear as a Tool of Management

    Arthur Blick

    Leave The Football: Why young Ugandans should shun their government and elective politics  

    Beyoreka Junior

    From Derogable to Functionally Non-Derogable

    Isaac Christopher Lubogo

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

    Akampurira Agapito

    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