Mayanja on judiciary role in building a happy state

Uganda, March 10 -- Emphasising the importance of the proper administration of justice in developing a harmonious and happy state, Abu Mayanja highlighted the significance of the human factor in the m... Read More

The price Mayanja paid for his political activism

Uganda, March 9 -- Although Abu Mayanja and several Uganda National Congress and Uganda National Movement activists were arrested or imprisoned by colonial authorities, very few of them had their huma... Read More

Here's the space Mayanja saw Parliament occupying

Uganda, March 3 -- Abu Mayanja thought Parliament symbolises the highest concept of representative government and institutions. As such, only elected people should be Members of Parliament (MPs). He t... Read More

Mayanja's two cents on 1967, 1995 constitutions

Uganda, March 2 -- Abu Mayanja gave his considered opinion on the 1967 Draft Constitution proposals in the Transition Magazine No 32, August to September 1967. It was so detailed that it straddled fro... Read More

Mayanja on how to set up govt to manage the state

Uganda, Feb. 25 -- Abu Mayanja thought that a constitution does not resolve major political or criminal problems, though having one helps structure laws. "I want to make this point strongly that we s... Read More

Here is the Uganda that Abu Mayanja so desired

Uganda, Feb. 24 -- Abu Mayanja thought that the primary reason a state exists is to enhance the good of the individual. He pointed out several times in Parliament that the state exists for the sake of... Read More

How Mayanja helped found Uganda's first political party

Uganda, Feb. 18 -- Abu Mayanja was the brain behind the Uganda National Congress (UNC). He wrote most of its documents, including its constitution, edited its magazine called Okwegatta, and wrote most... Read More

Mayanja bounces back after leading a strike at Makerere

Uganda, Feb. 17 -- In 1952, Abu Mayanja led a strike that broke a calm of 20 years of peace at Makerere University. Complaints about bad food at the ivory tower soon precipitated a vote of no confiden... Read More

What Abu Mayanja hoped Uganda would shape into

Uganda, Feb. 11 -- Abu Mayanja wanted Uganda to be a liberal democracy in which citizens' rights and liberties were assured by a government freely constituted by the people through regular and fair el... Read More

Mayanja lands on his feet in Ugandan political landscape

Uganda, Feb. 10 -- It is evident from the sources I have been able to consult that Abu Mayanja was the intellectual star of Uganda's "struggle" for independence and initial postcolonial efforts to bui... Read More