Wafula Oguttu, the bright boy, born in the bushes of rural Butaleja, who changed the face of Uganda’s independent commercial journalism

Uganda, in the East African region, has one of the most liberal media landscapes with more than 5 newspapers, 40 free-to-air TV channels, and nearly 300 radio stations. Four media groups however stand out and possibly control more than 50% of the media landscape- both in audiences and revenues. They are the government-owned Vision Group and the privately held Nation Media Group, Next Media Services and Radio Africa Group Limited. Nation Media Group, is the parent for Monitor Publications Limited which owns Daily/Saturday/Sunday Monitor newspapers as well as  90.4 Dembe FM radio,  93.3 KFM radio station, Daily Monitor e-paper, The…