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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...

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Inclusive 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...

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Against 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...

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Toni 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...

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How 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...

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Representing 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,...

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When 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...

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The 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...

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Baptism 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...

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  Not 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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