By David G Maillu President Yoweri Museveni alias M7 of the Republic of Uganda is fighting a losing battle in laying ground for prosecuting the gay community of his nation. He is a graduate of political science. But, it looks, the political science he did had no...

By David G Maillu One day I had a bizarre encounter with some Americans in San Francisco when they pounced on me asking, “Are you from Africa where you practice polygamy? How many wives have you got?” They were not amused when I told them I had one wife. They...

By Dr David G Maillu “It’s only human being that marry; other animals fornicate the rest of their lives.” That’s a false statement from Prof Kabaji’s friend. The statement shows ignorance of the dimension of the kingdoms of living things. In fact, there are other...

By David G Maillu  Let’s talk about our life and, first and foremost, give it a scientific glimpse regarding what life is. Life, science can also tell us, is a bundle of active and nuclear energy enclosed in a human body. That energy is a spark of the universal...

By David G Maillu  Recently I was confronted by one young man, let me call him Musangi who, perhaps in order to vent his frustration, argued with me sharply demanding, “Professor, what’s in these African values you people talk about which are invisible to us today...

By  David G Maillu  This happened when I was in England, the motherland of English language. Accompanied by an African friend I had gone to pay visit to an editor working for my British publisher, Macmillan. For a moment we were discussed the problems of Africans...

By David G Maillu  A substantial part of what has been generally described as witchcraft in our traditional society, is material obtained scientifically through biochemistry. I hereby dare present a taste of one of the most intriguing manufacture of the witchcraft...

By David G Maillu There is not a single African home where witchcraft is a foreign subject. Famous scholar and theologian, Professor John Mbiti, has been widely quoted saying, “The African is notoriously religious.” At this juncture, perhaps, one should add to that...

By David G Maillu When we say that there is no scientific explanation in witchcraft, what scientific barometer does the teacher use to make that claim? What is science? What are the dimensions of science? Which science? I put it to the teacher that a lot of what we...

By  David G Maillu  “The media has failed Kenya and only God will save us?” That was the headline of Prof Kabaji’s article fighting with the media. But where has that God been until things became that bad? I don’t know whether he was responsible for authoring the...

By David G Maillu Let me kick off by authoring the proverb: Sex is the gate to life and love is the soup with which life is eaten. In one of African deities there is “god of sex.” call it “angel of sex” or “sex god” deity responsible for sex matters.” If God is the...

By David G Maillu I am afraid we are on a course of ignoring our cultural library at the peril of our cultural development. Instead of going forwards we are going backwards. That library holds an incredible collection of millenniums of socially and scientifically...