Kamunye

Kamunye is a local newspaper in Uganda that was first issued in 2006. Kamunye is a Luganda language word that can be used to mean a bird (kite), local herbs or a passenger taxi.

History

It is a sister paper to The Red Pepper, a tabloid in Uganda, ^[1] and it has 74 bound volumes. ^[2]

This paper has been closed on two occasions, with the first one happening during the Buganda riots in 2009. In this case, the Scene of crime law was massively applied and this led to the closure Daily Monitor and its sister radio stations, KFM and Dembe FM, plus Red Pepper and sister publications Hello and Kamunye. ^[3]

In 2017, The Red Pepper was closed down in November alongside Kamunye. Their directors and editors were jailed after publishing a story alleging that President Museveni was training Rwanda rebels to topple the government of President Kagame. The president of Uganda later on gave a directive for them to be reopened after 3 months following a meeting with them at state house in Uganda. ^[4]

References

1. African Media Barometer: The first home grown analysis of the media landscape in Africa. Windhoek, Namibia: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES). 2010. p. 36. ISBN   978-99916-863-6-3.
2. "Digitizing Makerere University Library Newspaper Archives for Online Access" (PDF). Center for Research Libraries. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-08-10.
3. Johnson, Bruce (2007). "Voice, Power and Modernity". In Joy Damousi; Desley Deacon (eds.). Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the history of sound. ANU Press. JSTOR   j.ctt24hd0q.12 .
4. Raymond Mayanja (2018-01-28). "Red Pepper, Kamunye to hit city streets on Monday". PML Daily. Retrieved 2025-02-28.