Browsing by Author "Mugabe, Faustin"

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    How government has controlled communication during polls.
    (Daily Monitor, 2016-02-21) Mugabe, Faustin
    A day after the February 23, 2006, general election, government ordered and jammed the website of Monitor newspaper as well as the signals of its sister radio station, 93.3 K-FM in Kampala. The reason given for closing the radio station was relaying election results live from the Namuwongo studio, writes Faustin Mugabe.
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    What is in a name?
    (Daily Monitor, 2016-02-27) Mugabe, Faustin
    Long before the Whites came, Africans "baptised" with traditional names. But at the dawn of Christianity in Uganda in 1877 and 1879 for the Protestants and Catholics, respectively, the influence of the two faiths seemed to have eroded our culture, especially in naming. Before the arrival of Christianity, Africans had birth rites and initiation ceremonies for naming (baptising) the new born babies. The giving of names was a responsibility of an elder or a family leader.