• A.K. Kaiza

From Portuguese Goa to colonial Kampala, Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book shows how India became an instrument of empire, and a scapegoat in its aftermath.

• Helen Epstein

Uganda’s rulers don’t get that clobbering words is impossible. The pen will escape every hammer, and cross borders to haunt oppressors, even if the authors are no longer around.

• Giuliano Martiniello
• Jörg Wiegratz
• Elisa Greco

Now that we have had time to process it: Uganda's January 2021 elections were a key step in the country's long transformation towards a fully fledged neoliberal society.

• Michaela Collord

Ideas for how to pressure Uganda's "M-Pigs" to become elected representatives who actually serve in the public interest.

• Abdullahi Boru Halakhe

The United States must make the choice to side with the majority of Ugandans who would like to see democracy take root in Uganda.

• Nanna Schneidermann

How did popular music become the battlefield of Uganda's future? And what are the consequences?

• Kalundi Serumanga

The Ugandan government quells public unrest with violence. What won't it do in the name of "security"?

• Sam Broadway

Will the coronavirus pandemic extend Museveni’s authoritarianism or the lockdown instead provide openings for Uganda’s opposition?

• Joyce Abalo
• Sarah O’Sullivan

President Museveni announces 14-day lockdown as market vendors are beaten, the sick unable to move to hospitals and the wealthy bunker down in their solar-powered homes.

• Michael Mutyaba

Caricatures aside, how do President Yoweri Museveni and the National Revolutionary Movement state reproduce power?

• Oumar Ba

Why is the United States, not a signatory to the Rome Statute, defending the honor of the International Criminal Court?

• Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

Here's what to read and who to follow on social media if you want to make sense of Ugandan politics now.

• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

It is not hard to understand the iconic status of Nelson Mandela and the overflow of emotion his death has provoked in the Pan-African world.

• Elliot Ross

Why when African leaders meet Barack Obama, they are received in groups (unlike all other heads of state) and rarely get to speak?

• Elliot Ross

The power to choose on social media who is to be the next target of America’s moral manhunt, all with the benediction of a panel of biddable celebrities.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

For Ugandans the Americans are basically aiding a military infrastructure that will mostly terrorize local people and strengthen an unpopular dictator.

• Dan Moshenberg

If you're accused of 'terrorism' in Uganda, you end up at Luzira Prison, known for torture and its 5,000 prisoners in a place with a capacity of 500.

• Mahmood Mamdani

The umpteenth stand-off between Uganda's government and the "Walk to Work" protests by opposition forces.

• Brett Davidson

• Sean Henry Jacobs