The Crown and the Cousin: Inside Tooro’s Reckoning With Succession
REAGAN MUSINGUZI For nearly 31 years, the story of Tooro Kingdom’s monarchy was, in large part, the story of one man’s improbable childhood. Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV became Omukama at age three, thrust onto a centuries-old throne after his father’s sudden death in 1995. He grew up in public a boy-king curiosity to […]
Continue ReadingJanani Luwum Day: A Memory, A Question, A Mirror
Reagan Musinguzi On February 16, Uganda remembers Janani Luwum not just as a religious leader, but as a man who chose courage over comfort. In 1977, at the height of fear under Idi Amin, Luwum spoke openly about the disappearances, the violence, and the pain ordinary families were enduring. He knew the risk. He spoke […]
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