By Arinaitwe Rugyendo Editorial Director Like his name ‘Mpora Mpora’ suggests, the Late Eustace Mpora Kitookye, who passed on Sunday night, was a ‘slow but sure’ prolific entrepreneur, mentor, a kind man and strict parent. ‘Strict Parent’ because he was my uncle […]
Magogo’s Return and The Future of Ugandan Football By Arinaitwe Rugyendo On Saturday August 5th, a well-organized 93rd FUFA Elective General Assembly, at Kabalega Resort in Masindi, returned Eng. Moses Magogo as President for the next […]
Why The ‘Age Limit Bill’ Could Be Non-Existent By Arinaitwe Rugyendo This week’sTELEPATHY picks from last week’s observation that there is a strong possibility that, while the agitation for lifting the ‘age limit’ cap from the […]
AGE LIMIT BILL: What If M7 Doesn’t Stand? By Arinaitwe Rugyendo Dear readers, I have been off the scene for quite a while. While I was away, I did try to craft another entry point […]
Why Africa’s Future Lies in Tooling 10-Year Olds & Below By Arinaitwe Rugyendo Last week, I posed the question why and how a refocus on teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and life skills principles […]
Introducing ‘Young Engineers’ Programme & How to Solve Uganda’s Job Crisis By Arinaitwe Rugyendo In March 2015, when Uganda was grappling with an 83% youth unemployment crisis, the United States was busy solving theirs through […]
Why Early Childhood Development Programme Needs ‘Young Engineers’ By Arinaitwe Rugyendo Following the successful launch of Kenya’s ‘e² Young Engineers’ programme last week, the next stop shall be Uganda. And very soon! I was privileged […]
Is A Sports Caucus Emerging in Parliament? By ArinaitweRugyendo On Wednesday, September 21, 2016, a group of Ugandan Members of Parliament spoke some good sports language, the first time in recent history, right on the […]
Amazing Laki Otandeka & The Crested Cranes By Arinaitwe Rugyendo There is talk in football circles that Western Uganda has contributed fewer footballers to the national team than the other regions. This is true. I […]
Drumbeats & The Future of African Innovation By Arinaitwe Rugyendo On September 02nd, I received an e-card to an exclusive event, the kind I last experienced in Carpe Verde, somewhere in 2014. A friend, Dr. […]
Uganda Cranes & What Needs to Be Done By Arinaitwe Rugyendo The Four-decade jinx has been resolved. Uganda will be a contender for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) trophy in Libreville-Gabon, come January 2017. […]
If I Turned 23 Again, Here’s What I Would Do By Arinaitwe Rugyendo Last week’s ‘In Defence of ‘The Rolex’ piece got the Archbishop of Mbarara, His Grace Paul K. Bakyenga calling me. He liked […]
The Political Economy of Ugandan Football With Arinaitwe Rugyendo Academicians define ‘Political Economy’ as a branch of social science that studies the relationships between individuals, society, markets and the state, using a diverse set of […]
In Defence of ‘The Rolex’ By Arinaitwe Rugyendo Following a two- year retirement, your column, Behind The Scenes, returns today! Following a number of enquiries about it, not least from my Archbishop, His Grace Paul […]
I had been failing to write anything till yesterday afternoon because I am feeling a lot of pain. I am sad and feel like lost. My mother is very lost in prayer. I am worried […]
In Karongi, Rwanda President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has given the latest clue on countrywide calls to him to run for a 3rd term of office in 2017, saying he will make his stand clear […]
One of my greatest leadership coaches in the world is a man called John Calvin Maxwell. An accomplished American author, pastor and businessman, Maxwell has written more than 60 books, all of them on leadership. […]
“My job is not to give you fish but to teach you how to fish.” This is a line I picked from Rt. Hon Eriya Kategaya’s Constituent Assembly campaign manifesto of 1993. I was only […]
Assessing Dr. Ramphele’s Eye on the SA Presidency Yesterday, I woke up to not so surprising but quite telling news. The renowned South African anti-apartheid activist and Co-Founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, Dr. Mamphela […]
Background: At 50 years of independence, Uganda boasts of the youngest population in the world. In 2010, both the ‘CIA World Factbook’ and www.world.bymap.org, a prestigious website which regularly presents world statistics in several categories […]