In Uganda, a new inflation — in the price of votes
A must-read from Joachim Buwembo in The East African. Buwembo notices that as the Ugandan shilling tanks, the value of the Ugandan vote is…
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In Africa, Reporters Face Ethical Questions When Reporting on Rape
Kigali, Rwanda — But first, a quick news update: A Congolese colonel is going to jail for his sex crimes. It’s the first such…
Read MoreUgandan Opposition: “If the ruling party can steal votes, we can totally plagiarize”
There are some rather surprising similarities between British Prime Minister David Cameron’s political manifesto and the one Ugandan opposition candidate Kizza Besigye wrote. Remarkable,…
Read MoreUgandan opposition threatens That Which Did Not Work At All in Burundi
Next month, Uganda is having a presidential election — or, depending on your viewpoint, a mini-re-coronation. The Economist last fall called Museveni a “king…
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Sweet Dreams
As a little tribute to those of you mired in the freezing cold right now, we’re closing the show with that other white icy…
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In Congo, Women Fight Rape With Radios
One courageous young journalist uses her microphone to fight sexual violence — and changes a countryside, village by village. A radio feature commissioned by…
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How Not to Write About Rape
How can we make readers ethically comfortable with our journalism choices but morally uncomfortable with the horrors we have to write about?
Read MoreTurns out Ugandan women don’t want people grabbing their breasts
Imagine that! I saw this article about fifteen minutes after I blogged about Uganda’s urge to grope women on behalf of the national safety….
Read More…or are women (and their breasts) just weapons?
Female guests at Kampala hotels may be thoroughly groped in the days ahead — in the name of national security, of course. Says the…
Read MoreWomen as anti-corruption weapons
Not long ago, a short article I wrote for the Christian Science Monitor, about Rwanda’s majority female parliament, prompted a wee spat in this…
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