Yusuf Serunkumaš¹
@YusufSerunkuma
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Peasants. Marx. Recently: Surrounded: Democracy, Free Markets & Other Entrapments of New Colonialism. 2025. Kampala: ehf Columnist ā Just like Patrice Lumumba
Kampala, Uganda
Joined May 2009
How does Africa break these chains? Are we even aware of that these are chains? The things around which we mobilize our lives & imagine new futures: elections, open markets, so-called FDI, civil society & NGO work, human rights discourses, conservation, scholarships etc.
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for the politician, this is the realty just months after your burial: "As for your women, they have been married off; as for the houses, they have been occupied; as for your wealth [for which you even killed] it has been distributed and taken by others." You'll have nothing to
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In 2000, the S&P 500 had an elevated trailing P/E of 26, well above its long-term avg. of 14. For the next 11 years, the S&P 500 delivered zero returns! The current S&P 500 trailing P/E is 30 ā even higher than 2000. History rhymes. For standardized performance visit our website.
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So, in this electoral cycle (like in all others?) someone has a tender to deliver those sticks ā enkoni ā to the security forces. There is a budget line for enkoni!
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After Gulu, I cannot stop returning to these paragraphs: In truth, we joke too much ā too dangerously. That Byabakama will declare another winner; that kiboko welding arm of UPDF will salute another CiC; that corporations ā with monopoly contracts ā will allow YKM retire!
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We have another coup, Africa. It is in Benin. An election is scheduled in April. But in Oct. Benin's electoral commission barred the main opposition candidate from standing. That he did not have "enough sponsors." Benin "is one of the continent's largest cotton producers, but
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Is Gulu violence a case of "decentralized despotism"? Generals & foot-soldiers understanding the boss' mind & do what they consider necessary to serve the boss. Violence is thus executed in his name, to buy themselves favor. Despotism has become culture.
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1977! Amidst all the bad press.
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I will say one more time: Uganda is not a democracy, and neither are we trying to build one.
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For the first time (anyone before?) a senior @NUP_Ug leader lucidly articulated the logic behind #ProtestVote, & participating in an election with an almost foregone outcome. During this show, Counsel @SamMuyizzimuli clarified that the intention is to overwhelm the incumbent at
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He called it a farce.
@YusufSerunkuma 66% of AUās budget is financed by None-African entities(Read Donors) and we all know how this works because āhe who pays the Piper determines the tuneā. If we canāt fund our own initiatives(AU) the narrative is definitely determined by those that fund them aka colonialists.
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UG Electoral Jokes Calling them jokes is not to dampen the spirits of candidates, but rather to challenge them re-channel their enthusiasm & energy into real things. It pains me that we have reduced all our political imagination ā all activism ā to an electoral calendar.
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Celebrate the holidays in style. Grab your festive tee today!
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the joke of "African solutions to African problems" ā is watching two African presidents signing off the continent's wealth in the name of peace. Is this how the world works or something is really off with the new breed of African leaders?
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MIT Press put out this little Zizek jokes collection, and I'm falling over myself in a cafe. The joke about Mary Mogdalane trying to seduce Jesus had me in stitches. It is such a hilarious collection.
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Like the "peace jokes" of 1985, I write about the many electoral jokes we have told ourselves ever since for 40 years now. Many, many jokes ā that are sadly not funny, while being costly in both monetary terms & human life. In @observerug this week.
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Yesterday, I witnessed a level of neglect at Kiboga Hospital that I will never forget ā a cruelty so deep it will haunt me forever. This is the bitter truth of the broken system we live in, where lives are lost not because survival is impossible, but because help was cruelly
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"In the meantime, we must continue to devise means of surviving, somehow, in this strange place btn the rock of Museveni's Uganda & the hard global place being forged in the Trumpian moment." I can feel @bkabumba penning our tragedian condition sombrely, painfully.
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Nothing to see here, just tiny $RIME buying an AI logistics platform, blasting revenue over 1200%, and having a ~$5 price target while trading around a buck. Iām sure thatās totally normal. Not financial advice, do your own research.
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As in, what is this?
Parliament passed a supplementary budget. Ugx 5,400,000,000 of this going to install power/electricity stabilizer system for @RoofingsGroupUG, a private profit making company. Meanwhile, the Ugandan taxpayer paying for such a system is going to be left with UEDCL power blackouts
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That @URAuganda is more aggressive, more resourced than the Investments Authority (@ugandainvest) tells a story: The mentality is simply collection ā just collection āĀ not investment. Yet UIA is designed to make money. YKM govt loves comparing itself to Idi Amin, but this man
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The November rains. It was November 18, 2021.
Is NUP running against the police? The fragile peace was shattered completely on November 28, when police shot and killed NUP supporter Misaki (Meshach) Okello after a rally in Iganga district https://t.co/9kRZFR8IZX
#UGVotes26
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Is NUP running against the police? The fragile peace was shattered completely on November 28, when police shot and killed NUP supporter Misaki (Meshach) Okello after a rally in Iganga district https://t.co/9kRZFR8IZX
#UGVotes26
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For weeks, Ugandaās presidential campaign trail carried an unusual quiet. Candidates crisscrossed the country with little of the tear gas, sirens, and running battles that have long defined the...
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Stop and read Dr Kabumba's piece in The Observer this week: It is not just elegant thinking & brilliant writing ā mobilizing both legal & popular sources ā but Uganda under M7 has really failed & humiliated her citizens & BK makes this case, succinctly, sombrely. "The Perils of
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