Stella Nyanzi and Building People Power on Social Media
I first cast a vote in the Uganda presidential elections in 2016. That is not happening again. That exercise and what followed, made me realise elections in this country are a ceremony that gives even...
View ArticleInclusive Leadership In South Sudan is Key To Recovery: Gender Quota Just The...
It was 2014 when as I worked in my village of Mundri that I found out women there were not allowed to eat eggs and chicken. However, not all had obliged to this societal rule. I would learn that some...
View ArticleAgainst All Hopes: Invisibility, Exclusion And The Emergence of Voice
“I was never taught absolute silence. I was taught that it was important to speak but to talk a talk that was in itself silence.” – bell hooks, Talking Back In my context, women have done the normative...
View ArticleToni Morrison’s Eyes
My introduction to Toni Morrison’s body of work came at a much later stage in my life, I read her a fully formed adult. Reading her, the language she used, very familiar -while imagining the...
View ArticleHow Do We Continue Speaking the Language of Courage Amidst Violent Silencing?
On February 20, late evening, my WhatsApp buzzed. It was news of another arrest. Sheena Bagaine, a student at Uganda Christian University was held and police were refusing to release her on bond. There...
View ArticleRepresenting or Appropriating? Reimagining Voices of African Women
I have to confess that I have always been slightly irritated by the assumption that as an African, privileged to have been to school and with a job, I cannot or should not be speaking for ‘rural,...
View ArticleWhen I Die, Let My Mother’s Wishes Be Respected
When I die, bury me where my mother wants me to be buried. When I die, let my mother’s wishes be respected. I recently found out that once married via a traditional ceremony from my community (Kikuyu...
View ArticleThe Revolution is Here
Dear sister, I have been meaning to write you this letter. You are constantly in my thoughts. I think of us, and how this world would look different if white cishetero homophobic and transphobic...
View ArticleBaptism By Fire: My Experience As A Feminist On The Internet
The Internet has primarily been my “office” for the few years I have been doing feminist movement building. It has fronted the birth of great movements I am thrilled to be part of. I have had the...
View ArticleNot A Dream But A Rememory
She woke up terrified, alone, and hopeless trying to process and write her dream. These were the protagonists: Her The rapist Her mother’s priest/pastor Her friends A bunch of women who were trying to...
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