Mr. Lumumba H. Amin

Photo: Feeling sad after finding no mangoes to pluck from the mango tree next to Uganda's independence monument. Today Nigerians elect their leader, I wish them all the best. I noticed that ever since Uganda's 1980 general elections, Ugandans have been complaining of rigged elections one after the other to this day, all characterized by a phase of extreme violence, while Ugandans are obviously incapable of seriously improving and burglar-proofing elections in this country for the last four decades. So much so that our elections are still archaically conducted in plastic basins in the 21st century just like Obote first prescribed in 1980. Yet for the record, we already know the solution to corruption and public theft. Besides the enactment and implementation of serious legal deterrences, it is common knowledge that the less human interaction we have in any public service processes, including in elections, the less corruption and theft there is. That is why for decade...

Photo: African leaders at the AU headquarters in Ethiopia yesterday. Zoom meetings have lost market these days. As African leaders meet at the AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, my humble advice to them us to put aside until further notice all the toxic issues that divide us, and focus instead  on building what unites us. And what else can currently unite us more than the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement, African leaders need to radically abandon the colloquial belief that the continents development happens through foreign direct investment, foreign aid, and the counter-productive economic policies directed to us from overseas in exchange for World bank loans. It is quite astonishing that we have been taken back to colonial economics, and we are now even inviting economic colonialism back to the continent ourselves and in broad daylight. All this is due to not analysing extensively what Foreign Direct Investment really means to the economy of a country, especi...

GRAPHIC PHOTO (to raise awareness): Because they had lied that Idi Amin killed 300,000 people, they started fabricating "evidence" by first murdering 300,000 Ugandans themselves just a few years after the Amin government, and then displaying the skulls on the roadsides as Amin victims. (Attached is a screenshot of journalist Marco Margaritoff attempting to do exactly that) There is no precedent in human history of such level of evil where first a respected human rights organization, Amnesty International, maliciously lies against an individual, and then a tremendous number of innocent peasants are senslessly slaughtered for no reason whatsoever except just to try and substantiate those lies. No wonder that to this day the actual killers, Milton Obote and Yoweri Museveni, have not been held responsible by the international communuty for this barbarity. The problem for them is that nothing like this ever happened under the Amin government, and secondly,  all Ugandan...

One of the problems we have across society and at all levels of public administration is people leading by intimidation and not by excellence and work. Even police brutality is based on that premise. 99.99% of Ugandans have been raised to believe that corporal punishment is the solution, not knowing that it limits people psychologically to believing in fear. Personnally I was never subjected to corporal punishment my entire life, and notice that the most advanced societies do not have corporal punishment as a social norm like we here in Africa. Because what it does is create a society where people only do anything properly when there is a threat of punishement, and not out of any habit of doing things properly with attention to detail. Even the idea that people are being tortured and abducted today to unknown locations, is based on the common idea of "teaching them a lesson" rather than prosecuting them for a crime. Police and security officers should understand t...

In African village tradition, when you enter the bathroom and find that the housemaid has already put your fathers warm bathing water there, you turn back and wait until the father has finished bathing. I advise Muhoozi to respect African tradition, and respect his own father! Signed: Mr.Lumumba Amin Kampala, Uganda.