Uganda: Makerere Still a Reputable University

There have been a lot of misguided reports about Makerere University, most of which cannot pass a factual test. However, the recent attack by Ugandan's leading journalists Charles Onyango-Obbo, that appeared in The East African (September 4-10 2006), left a dark image of this great institution. Although it is true that the standards of the university cannot be compared with those of its heyday the 1960s, the writer was overly critical and biased in his assessment of the state of affairs at the institution.