Following Afrikaans, Swahili is the second African language to launch a Facebook page.  In the past five years Facebook use has been spreading all over Africa to become one of the most popular social networking sites on the continent. A group of Swahili scholars approached the California based Internet firm to get permission to launch [...]

Elizabeth Musaazi is a daughter of pioneer Muganda politician Ignatius Kangave Musaazi.  Nakku Senkeeto says that she is a granddaughter of Jolly Joe Kiwanuka and a great granddaughter of former treasurer (Muwanika) of Buganda Serwano Kulubya. And Edirisa Kironde claims to be first nephew to former Uganda President Yusuf Kironde Lule. The three are leading [...]

The wife of former Uganda dictator, Milton Obote and her camp within Uganda Peoples’ Congress (UPC), have been engaged in around the clock meetings with an Acholi faction for days, to avoid a major split in the party which was formed by her husband. A frustrated Muganda UPC member told this writer by email that the Acholis are determined to take control…

Transparency International, a Berlin-based anti-corruption watchdog has published a report saying 53% of 73,000 respondents from 69 countries now saw the private sector as being corrupt, up from 45% in 2004. The report also stated that most people believed that private firms have to pay “sweeteners” to public officials to influence policy. In addition, the [...]