Author: Michael Businge

The Ugandan public’s confidence in members of parliament has decreased since the 2000s. When it comes to voting, a minority of individuals, primarily from Uganda’s rural areas, have been observed participating. This is because most of the public believe the current system isn’t designed with their interests in mind and does not deliver what they require. Those who are furthest from power and opportunity have the least trust in the current system. Democracy? A section of elite Ugandans believe that democracy alone possesses the tools to rectify our fractured politics. I do not share this belief. Many believe it to…

Matt Castoral in one of his writings notes that there are things in life that are mostly certain for the British populace: death, taxes, and the British monarchy. Indeed and for long the British monarchy has been a constant but will not be so any longer. Much as the British royals have dominated headlines world over, however as noted by prominent royal experts, serious real blunders committed by the past monarch have put the British empire on the journey of the end of it. Whereas 62% Britons have claimed to have stood behind Queen Elizabeth before her passing, there have been…

The great Sir David Attenborough said in 2020, ‘Saving the planet is now a communications challenge’. He must have said that not to belittle the science or undervalue the importance of research, but because fundamentally there should be a strategy in place to deal with our problems. As humans, we should know what we need to do and when to do it. For instance, as humans, we are facing different global challenges including an increase in global temperatures, unprecedented floods, drought famine, loss of important biodiversity such as plants, birds, animals, increase in crop pest and diseases, increase in conflicts…