Uganda—a culture that puts women at risk of great violence
A new film and how to change minds about who is at fault for Uganda’s endemic violence against women.
Uganda
The U.S., Uganda, and the War on Terror
The United States' support for “strong man rule” in Africa, if President Yoweri Museveni’s recipe for longevity in Uganda.
Uganda’s Bonfire Youth
A group of young Ugandans employ poetry and storytelling to speak out against state repression, corruption and abuse of power.
A different kind of girl power
In recent years there has been a global convergence on the “girling of development”; in other words, girls’ empowerment and education as a way to address poverty. This includes corporate campaigns such as Nike’s Girl Effect and those by state aid organizations such as USAID’s Let Girls Learn. These campaigns promote understandings about girls’ empowerment that […]
Pornography and Photography
The ultimate goal of Michele Siblioni's work is to achieve the satisfaction of the white male ego, via the camera lens and exotic depictions of black women.
What is happening at the Durban International Film Festival?
As with our last movie night post, we need to start with the bad news. 1. The Durban International Film Festival (or DIFF), one of the most important film festivals on the African continent, has been through some turmoil lately. With only a couple months to go to DIFF, the festival manager Sarah Dawson as […]
Uganda’s chemical elections
One effect of the deployment of tear gas and military equipment in Kampala is in the fear it invokes in the electorate, reminding them of the close relationship between the president, police and military.
All you need to know about Uganda’s elections
Here's what to read and who to follow on social media if you want to make sense of Ugandan politics now.
Uganda Belongs to Us
Who are the young people who want to take their country back from the leopard who has terrorized them for 30 years?
The Day After
For the current generation of Uganda's diaspora, the homeland is much more than a myth; it’s a reality that they can see, hear, engage, and influence.
How to say Joseph Kony’s name
Mispronouncing Kony's name speaks to how detached people in and outside of Uganda are to northern Uganda's experiences.
You Want Another Rap, Uganda?
You can’t separate Drake from Toronto or Heems from Queens. So Young Cardomom and HAB rap like they are from Kampala.
Uganda, now you have touched the women… again!
In April 2012, Ingrid Turinawe, then leader of Uganda’s Forum for Democratic Change Women’s League, was on her way to an FDC rally when police attacked her. They dragged her out of her car, groped, mauled, and tore off her top. Ugandan women responded with protests where they stripped off their tops. That was then, […]
The average person in Uganda
Ugandans are confronted by a cultural and political paradigm which pushes a preference for Western lives and lifestyles from multiple angles.
Perpetrator or Victim?
A decade after the ICC opened its investigation in northern Uganda, it lays its hands on a suspect in that conflict: a former child soldier.
The Invisible Children Highlight Reel
Nine conclusions we can draw from the hype machine that was the viral advocacy campaign, Kony 2012. One of them was that ordinary Ugandans saw right through it.
Kampala Gets an Art Biennale
The need to move the art discussion away from Darwinian interests in gorillas to the concern for new audiences for contemporary art in Africa.
#BringBackOurGirls: What took the world so long?
Like so many others I am glad to see more people around the world take up the issue of the school girls who were kidnapped more than two weeks ago from Chibok in the north east region of Nigeria. I am relieved to see people of different backgrounds, in my social media feeds join the […]
News from Nigeria
The writer, who lives in the U.S., travels with her teenage son back to Nigeria just as the country proposes a new law to criminalize same sex love.
Ghanaian preachers say the darndest things
The world, via American, is getting to know about how in Ghana the lines between religion and politics, and fact and fiction are often blurred.