The Uganda Herald

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The Uganda Herald
Uganda's Oldest Newspaper
TypeTri-weekly newspaper
FormatPrint
Owner(s)Uganda Printing & Publishing Company Limited
Founder(s)Michael Moss
Founded1912
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication1955
HeadquartersKampala
CountryUganda
Sister newspapersMatalisi
OCLC number 12327860

The Uganda Herald was an English-language newspaper in Uganda founded in 1912 and ceased publication in 1955. [1] It was the first privately owned commercial newspaper in Uganda and was published tri-weekly. [2] [3] It was one of Uganda's oldest newspapers. [4]

Contents

Background

The newspaper founded by Michael Moss, a British businessman who was living in Uganda [5] [1] [6]

It mainly published news for, and about the British community, with a regular column called "Home News". [7] Although, It was described as the most widely read and most influential newspaper in Uganda, Scholars like Mahmood Mamdani interpreted it as a "mouth piece for settler interests." [8]

The newspaper had a readership of European, Asian and African educated elite. [6] [9]

The Uganda Herald was published for 43 years, and it ceased publication on 13 May 1955. [6] [10]

Features

The Uganda Herald had a number of regular columns and features such as:

Topical Topics

A regular column that was written by "Janus", "Pandora" and "Sundowner" through the years. It contained book reviews, personal musings on life, wise sayings and the writers personal review of the news of the week.

For Women Only

A column written by "Pandora" and later "Clarissa" - it focused on fashion and beauty tips for ladies, cooking and baking features , the weather and musings from a "female perspective".

Home News

A column containing correspondence from Britain [11]

Things We Should Like To Know

This was a series of normally 5 questions related to the current affairs of the day.

References

  1. 1 2 Isoba, John (1980). "The Rise and Fall of Uganda's Newspaper Industry, 1900 -1976". Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 57 (2): 225 – via Sage Journals.
  2. ↑ Sobel, Meghan; McIntyre, Karen (2020-01-28). "The State of Press Freedom in Uganda". International Journal of Communication. 14 (0): 20. ISSN   1932-8036.
  3. ↑ "Uganda herald". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2025-02-22.
  4. ↑ Kobusingye, Caroline (2018). Access and use of print newspapers at Makerere University Main Library Uganda. Makerere University. p. 6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. ↑ "YCI: IMPORTANT EVENTS AS FAR AS MEDIA HISTORY IS CONCERNED". elearning.yci.ac.ug. Retrieved 2025-03-01.
  6. 1 2 3 Ssali, N. M. (1987). "The Uganda Press: A Commentary". Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies. 15 (3): 168 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ↑ Nelson, Daniel (1968). "Newspapers in Uganda". Transition (35): 29 – via JSTOR.
  8. ↑ Peebles, Skye, L (24 May 2005). UNSATISFACTORY AND UNRELIABLE WITNESSES: Reexamining the January 1945 Uganda Strike through the pages of the Uganda Herald. Mount Holyoke College. p. 13.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Acayo, C.; Mnjama, N. (2004). "The print media and conflict resolution in Northern Uganda". African Journal on Conflict Resolution. 4 (1): 27–43. doi:10.4314/ajcr.v4i1.39372. ISSN   2309-737X.
  10. ↑ "It’s sad 100 years later, we have only two newspapers to count". New Vision. Retrieved 2025-02-22.
  11. ↑ Kakooza, Michael (2012). REALITY CHECK Revisiting the media freedom debate at Uganda’s independence golden jubilee. Uganda Media Development Foundation. Kampala: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Uganda. p. 41. ISBN   978 9970 153 08 4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
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