Background
Kalinaki was born in 1980. His father traces his roots to Busoga, in Eastern Uganda.
Journalist & Community Activist
Kalinaki was born in 1980. His father traces his roots to Busoga, in Eastern Uganda.
He attended local schools before entering Makerere University, Uganda"s oldest and largest public university. He graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication.
Later, he obtained the degree of Master of Arts in International Journalism from City University of London. At the age of 18, he joined the Crusader, a tri-weekly in Uganda. When it closed a year later, he found a home at the Daily Monitor, working as reporter, assistant radio news manager, deputy sports editor, associate editor, foreign news editor, news editor, investigations editor, and managing editors
Kalinaki"s work has appeared in the Daily Monitor, The EastAfrican, the New Internationalist, Africa Confidential, the Weekly Observer, Mississippi Magazine, and on the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service radio.
He also teaches journalism part-time at Makerere University. In 2000, he co-authored with Glen Williams, Joyce Kadowe, and Noerine Kaleeba Open Secret: People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus And Aids In Uganda.
This book, which was published by the United Kingdom Charity ActionAid, was the first piece of literature to trace the importance of a candid and open approach to help fight social stigma and discrimination towards Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Aids. Since then he has worked on several projects and documentaries on the subject.
According to the Human Rights Report 1999, Kalinaki was assaulted and harassed at the World Press Freedom Day by Ugandan traffic policemen at Wandegeya Police Station.
Kalinaki was trying to take a photograph of a taxi (matatu) driver who had knocked a woman and had tried to flee a few metres away from the police station. Between 2003-2004, Kalinaki and The Monitor were twice taken to court by the Ugandan government to stop the publication of two controversial stories: the first detailed allegations that government officials had unduly influenced the constitutional review process, and the second was about a salary embezzlement scam in the country"s armed forces, the Uganda People"s Defence Force. On 12 August 2009, Kalinaki was again questioned by the Ugandan Police for about six hours over the publication of contents of Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s controversial 15 July letter on the politics in Bunyoro sub-region.
lieutenant was the second time in 2009 that Kalinaki has been summoned to the Crime Investigation Department to answer questions over stories published by the Daily Monitor Publication Limited.
Number charges were referred in the earlier case, which followed a story that was critical of the conduct of the operation against the Lord’s Resistance Army. Kalinaki has written a book "Kizza Besigye and Uganda"s Unfinished Revolution".
The book examines Kizza Besigye"s "ambitions, ideals, aspirations, illusions and delusions". lieutenant also outlines how Museveni has repeated the mistakes made by his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote.
In the book, the author suggests what Ugandans can and should do about lieutenant
He is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.