ANDREW MWENDA'S BLOG

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had promised not to run for a second term. However, she recently changed her mind. In 2002, Mwai Ki...

As the elections for next year get closer, the contours of its alignments are becoming apparent. The election of Norbert Mao to lead DP and ...

Mugisha Muntu’s challenge to Kizza Besigye for the presidential candidature of FDC reveals the major dilemma facing the opposition in Uganda...

Let me speculate. There are always ominous signs when a leader or regime is about to collapse. Take the example of Shakespeare’s Julius Caes...

The killing of three Baganda youths by President Yoweri Museveni’s security detail at Kasumbi tombs is shocking but not surprising. There is...

In his book, Weapons of the Weak, James Scott argues that studies of peasant resistance focus a lot on large scale revolts. “For the histori...

I was on a train at New York’s Grand Central Station on March 5 when a friend from my days at Stanford University entered. I was overjoyed y...