Common Man's Party presidential candidate Mubarak Munyagwa has taken his 2026 election campaign to Arua City, calling for an end to President Museveni's four-decade rule and pledging equitable ...

Sarah Kyolaba, a dancer with Idi Amin’s Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band, became his favourite wife—if it can ...

Members of the clergy have been criticised for not condemning brutality meted out against Opposition supporters ahead of the 2026 General Election. Critics said the current silence marks a departure ...

In his quest to become the most unlikable political figure since Idi Amin, vice president J. Divan Vance took the stage at the Turning Point USA Necrofest in Arizona and made everything very plain.

HISTORY is filled with tales of powerful men who accumulate titles the way some people collect travel fridge magnets. They begin with one respectable office, add a se­­cond for convenience, a third in ...

FEW ANIMALS scare full-grown African elephants. But bees are among them. So it was to bees that Iain Douglas-Hamilton looked when he sought to draw a line between the pachyderms’ domain and humanity’s ...

While the exact numbers are debatable, scientific research using validated psychometric tools—like the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale—has been conducted in ...

In August, Gen Salim Saleh, who heads the Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) initiative, came out guns blazing. Not literally, but metaphorically. Wielding word-guns, he reportedly banned artists and ...

Simon Woolley speeds past with a smile and a handshake to take a call before we start. I arrived early and am waiting on a chair outside Woolley’s office, feeling like I am back in secondary school.

During his fifty-year career, Sonny Carl Davis has made even the smallest roles memorable, in everything from Fast Times at Ridgemont High to Bernie. And he starred in one of the best Texas movies of ...

Mahmood Mamdani is often described as the father of Zohran Mamdani, NYC's next mayor. But long before his son's political ambitions, Mamdani was a prominent scholar whose work examined colonialism and ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...