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Angelo Izama Profile picture
@Opiaiya
Sep 5, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
One of my fav moments from the run of my sister and friend @HonAniteEvelyn . It is a long way from her first race (when we first met) and her career continues to show how a new generation navigates the practical politics of #Uganda’s Democratic experiment #UGDecides2021
Since I started reporting on Ugandan elections ( and politics) there have been (now nearly) 3 generations of young, idealistic and pragmatic leaders that have spanned the longevity of NRM’s dominance of national elections. It speaks to how impactful this period has been.
I remember like yesterday when Betty Amogin, Odonga Otto, Gerald Karuhanga or Thomas Tayebwa (sans gray hair) were the youngins we were working with. Their generation has matured in the era of the unprecedented commercialization of the democratic process whose effects we await.
New names are now on the list but with the changing Rolodex of young people is embedded the sometimes surprisingly positive story of dirty but functional electoral systems I wrote about here journalofdemocracy.org/articles/ugand…
Judging by the national visibility of her loss to @DrAyumeCharles, @HonAniteEvelyn has a longer career in this space. I wish her and all the young(er) folk success. I congratulate my buddy Tony Awany in Nwoya for his win and look forward to welcoming him in the a House.

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Feb 21
#1 Real-estate prices in Uganda continue to dumbfound me. If only because it is a constant reminder of the capital sunk in brick and stone that could go into some other part of the productive economy. (a thread)
#2 A friend reached out the other day to say a relative was selling a couple of acres of prime land near Kampala for 450M an acre. While I have encountered high prices, it still shocks me that the local market can sustain such high prices.
#3 After reading the NRA ( National Risk Assessment) for money-laundering and other sources I understand why real estate is part of the fear economy. Investors understand that buildings carry over better than other assets in a political or economic crisis
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Oct 30, 2023
A few comments on this story @933kfm. Firstly, it is important to know that Hon. Fungaroo's vision for an Idi Amin Institute is for a tertiary ( in other words academic) degree awarding institution. This is why it came under the ambit of NCHE.
I was initially confused about this and read the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act ( then asked Hon Fungaroo). When he mentioned degree awarding as a goal, I explained that an institution/think tank on the Idi Amin period did not need to award degrees.
If the intention is a critical re-examination of the Idi Amin Presidency in the context of his times, post-independence Uganda and say the Cold War or even military governments in Africa ( this is the key difference between Amin and the rest), why degrees?
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Apr 22, 2022
1. A few thoughts on the #Coffee debate with regard to what comes next ( a short thread). Government incentives such as tax relief, land etc are essentially equivalent to commercial and monetary value that the state "invests" in the given project
2. In short, incentives are a proprietary tool by the government to give up expected revenue, say from tax or other sources, in order to advance some greater public purpose. In the case of the Vinci deal, the stated purpose is value addition to coffee
3. The decision to extend equity ( through incentives etc) to a project is not only about strategic value of the project. Any public investment must pass a commercial, strategic and political test. Much of the defence of Vinci deal has been only that it is legal.
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Apr 19, 2022
Samson. I think you are mixing up two things. Paying a mortgage is about ownership ( save via equity accumulated over time). There are folks renting in some places where mortgages are widely available. Renting in Uganda is partly due to the absence of mortgage opportunities (cont
On a mass scale. This also means sadly that mortgages as an instrument of mass participation in the economy is limited. In so called advanced countries home ownership ( paying a mortgage) is a primary score of credit worthiness (contd)
It builds equity that individuals can borrow against and housing construction companies can rely on to also borrow to expand. This activity is backed by Federal Loans in the United States and is a subject of a longer conversation
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May 22, 2021
#1 Thread| #Tanzania, Uganda Finalize Oil Pipeline Deal | OilPrice.com oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-… #oilprice
#2 The 1923 letter by the Commissioner of Mines at Entebbe, E.F Wayland referencing the Anglo-French Middle East Development Corporation doing investigations into oil in Bunyoro, 98 years ago today.
#3 E.S Wayland proposed a policy of the (colonial) government staying concessions for oil exploration in Bunyoro until the government had done its own work. This policy would hold until the 1990’s.
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Jan 19, 2021
Good morning. Here is a shorter thread on the press conference I attended with @HEBobiwine about the conditions of his detention and his plans, hampered as they are by his confinement. This is a portion when his wife Barbie spoke about how they were coping.
"We have many men in soldiers in various uniforms. Some are in green uniform, some in blue uniforms and some in brown. They seem to be taking turns. There are different faces" Barbie said. She added" There are some standing peeping into the compound. Others are already in."
"A group of men manhandled me ( she was trying to get food from their garden") until I asked for help from the women ( officers). Why am I being handled by men? I did not get any answers apart from being pushed back into the house" Barbie told.
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