Ugandan 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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Turns 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…
Read MoreUgandan journalist missing, held by anti-terrorism force, sources say
Ugandan radio journalist Arafat Nzito disappeared last week, and human rights observers in Uganda think he is being held by the country’s Joint Anti-Terrorism…
Read MoreThis week in “Huh?”
From CNN International, in an article about a British aid worker with what appears to be remarkable if limited telepathic capability. I think. Or…
Read MoreWhy is it so dangerous to be a journalist in Uganda?
Ugandan journalist Allan Brian Ssenyonga, a frequent guest writer on this blog, says Ugandan journalists naively assume press badges and working for the public…
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The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget
The stunning story of a Ugandan man’s quest for the truth about the murder of his father, who was killed during the reign of…
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Through the River and Over The Falls
Umwenda, the village along the Nile River where Mr. Wasige was born, is unremarkable, which is to say it has as little as most…
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