• STORIES WRITTEN BY: SAMSON KASUMBA

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    Museveni’s Greatest Political Weapon Is Being Impossible to Read

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    When Second Place Isn’t Failure: Rethinking What Victory Really Means in Football

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    Museveni’s Calculated Unpredictability Keeps Allies and Rivals Guessing

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    Makerere’s Virtual Campaign Decision Puts Student Safety Above Risky Tradition

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    What Options Does Iran Have?

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    When 19 Out of 20 Feels Like Failure: Rethinking Success for Youth

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    Flynn–Muhoozi Meeting Signals Quiet Continuity in Uganda–US Security Ties

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    Clean Kampala Will Only Last If Citizens Take Ownership

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    Is Might Right?

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    Seeing Uganda Clearly: Moving Beyond the Shadows of Negativity

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    Western Media Bias Under Scrutiny After Minab School Strike

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    Reckless overtaking is not bravery, It's gambling with human life

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    Can Kampala Be Clean Without Killing Livelihoods?

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    Kabanda, Baryomunsi and the Politics of Ambition

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    Uganda’s Media Must Stop Pretending to Be Neutral

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    SAMSON KASUMBA: Nakivubo Channel Is Not a Playground for Profits

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    Ugandans Speak of Development but Rarely Defend It

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    Samson Kasumba: Celebrating Levixone and Desire’s Right to Marriage

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    When Comedy Crosses the Line: The Reckless Mockery of Gen Moses Ali

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    Samson Kasumba: Democracy Is Not for Uganda Yet

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    Isaac Newton: Of Logic, Physics, and Uganda’s Illusion of Opposition

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    Why Most Organisations Fail to Be More Than the Sum of Their Parts

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    Is Might Always Right? Rethinking Ethics, Power, and Justice in a Troubled World

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    On Objectivity, Bias, and the Truth We Tell

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    When Power Feels Permanent, Arrogance Becomes Law

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    Isaiah 14:12: When Power Speaks Louder in Silence

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    De Brief: Has Norbert Mao Turned Uganda’s Oldest Party into a Personal Project?

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    Why Uganda Needs More Sophistication in Football and Politics

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    Museveni’s Political Foresight and the Opposition’s Strategic Blind Spots

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    DE BRIEF: KCCA Trapped in a Cycle of Reacting to Disasters Rather Than Preventing Them

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    Parenting in Uganda: A Complex Balance of Struggle and Success

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    Samson Kasumba: Kawempe North By-Election and the Abnormal Reality of Election Policing

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    The Unpredictability of Power in Uganda

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    Football, Then and Now: Lessons Beyond the Game

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    The Museveni Playbook: A Strategic Mind at Work

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    Fighting Corruption in Uganda: A Battle for Results or Personal Gain?

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    Removing Museveni: Why you don't see Opposition asking Ugandans not to litter

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    Israel has exposed own underbelly by responding to Hamas provocation

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    OPINION: Who is fooling who?

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    OPINION: But what has Erias Lukwago really done for Kampala?

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    OPINION: What is the rush for change?

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    How Museveni goes is more important than Museveni leaving

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    OPINION: Should we simply accept bad manners now?

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    OPINION: Why do some men think a maid can replace a house wife?

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    OPINION: Ssewanyana, Ssegirinya release forces NUP into soul searching, the way forward and who will lead it 

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    OPINION: Why do you need to show us you are powerful with arrogant behaviour?

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    Samson Kasumba: Why insult me if I share a different opinion?

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    Kasumba: You say Obote and Amin were bad. How come we have disorder and chaos?

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    Kasumba: Where is the Hakuna Mchezo that Museveni promised in 2016?

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    Samson Kasumba: Why do we exaggerate the importance of tribe?

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    Kasumba: NRM leaders should be humble like Bobi Wine

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    Opinion: Bobi Wine is an incredible politician but is he ready for State House?

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    Kasumba: How you wield your power, influence matters

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    Dr Kaliisa was brutally honest and vastly knowledgeable

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    It's one thing for Bobi Wine to take power, quite another for him to transform Uganda

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    Opinion: Teargassing the Mbogo clan meeting was a big mistake that will be costly

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    Samson Kasumba: "Six months later, I'm still waiting to be charged in court"

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    Kasumba: I am a victim of being misunderstood...that's what I learnt from my arrest

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    Opinion: Why poor Bobi Wine is making rich NRM cry

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    Opinion: Why is Kadaga taking on Janet Museveni over the curriculum?

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    Why is an intelligent Museveni running a stupid country?

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    Opinion: Who is Justice Byabakama fighting for to ban cameras at polling stations?

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    Opinion: Lessons from the fatal Naalya shooting of businessman Mugisha

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    Samson Kasumba: Bobi Wine is not Besigye, lets learn to think critically!

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    Opinion: Justice Bamugemereire is fighting for us the powerless, more power to her!

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    A nation of ignorant strangers

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    In Uganda, we have a twisted view of patriotism

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    In 1980, NRA shunned court for violence; now they preach against violence

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    I missed it...what did the IGP say? stone police officers or what?

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    The end always reigns supreme over the means

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    With today's political circus, be careful the name you give your child

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    The Sembabule mess proves Museveni does not care about standards

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    Ziritwawula does not regret walking out in protest over Museveni rule extension

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    Why are we so afraid to see the end of President Museveni's rule?

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    Museveni planned his long stay, he will be difficult to topple

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    If Museveni is popular, why is he splashing money to remove age limit?

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    The Politics of African Wives and Husbands: Lessons from a Zimbabwean neighbour

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