Right economic diagnosis but policy missteps

One of the most enduring realities of Africa since the time of colonial conquest is the continent’s status as a reservoir of raw materials. Raw coffee beans, raw cotton, copper, gold and other precious metals and minerals.

The logic of capitalist exploitation and, indeed, the colonial project was to set up colonies for extraction cheaply and as markets for expensive finished products. This was true 150 years ago. It is true today.

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  Why ruling by fear is unsustainable

  The government has bruised its own name and credibility in the eyes of prospective investors and businesses it so desperately solicits

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  Sam Mugumya and Uganda’s crashed hopes

  A video showing a practically disabled frame of one of our generation’s most fearless activists is a tragic commentary to square with the optimism and promises of our university days

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  Trial of the temple of justice

  Twenty years after the Black Mamba siege, Uganda faces familiar legal questions

• Bloated Cabinet is a form of political corruption!

  The bloated public sector, starting with Cabinet, is officially justified on account of better delivery of services to the people

• Why Museveni’s new term can’t deliver

  Whatever his good intentions and strategic foresight, if one were to grant Mr Museveni the benefit of the doubt, it is a lost cause