Category : The East African Opinion

By MELES ALEM TIKEA On June 21, 2021, millions of Ethiopians, across the nation, turned up early and en masse, to truly lay a foundation

By JOACHIM BUWEMBO One of the things East African governments learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic was to shoot without aiming. The African business community also

By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO Uganda’s political transitions after an election, as provided in the constitution, are among the longest in the world. There have been no

By The EastAfrican As Africa sinks deeper into the third Covid-19 wave, the temptation to reinstate punishing lockdowns is growing. From Lusaka to Kampala, governments

By JENERALI ULIMWENGU When a little, pint-sized politician called Frederick Chiluba beat him to the presidency in 1991, Kenneth Kaunda (KK) was among the first

By TEE NGUGI Justin Muturi, Kenya’s National Assembly Speaker, is not someone I normally agree with. I rate his stewardship of Parliament to be one

By JENERALI ULIMWENGU I almost forgot that our very own African Union (AU) had promised itself it would work towards silencing the guns in 2020,

By JOACHIM BUWEMBO In Uganda, shock triggers jokes. Most times, the jokes are cruel and insensitive. But once in a rare while, the joke may

By The EastAfrican East Africa’s Finance ministers completed their annual budget reading ritual with few surprises on Thursday. Hemmed in by the effects of the

By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO On June 9, at the writing of this column, the total number of reported Covid-19 cases in Africa since the pandemic began