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My take on KONY2012 Campaign and Lessons learnt
Disclaimer: Even though I write from an informed perspective, my comments do not represent the voices of millions of survivors or victims of the war in Northern Uganda and Central Africa at large. I...
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The Anti #Kony2012
By Black ACrylic Over the last few days I feel I have been swimming furiously against the #Kony2012 tide. The campaign launched by Invisible Children encourages Americans to lobby American cultural...
View ArticleUnpacking Kony 2012
By Ethan Zuckerman This Monday, March 5th, the advocacy organization Invisible Children released a 30 minute video titled “Kony 2012“. The goal of the video is to raise awareness of Joseph Kony, leader...
View ArticleMore perspectives on Kony 2012
I know Glenna Gordon from her time in Uganda and she was one of the few American journalists who covered the later stages of the Kony war in northern Uganda. She was part of a group of journalists who...
View ArticleInvisible Children wants to talk… to Ugandan Diaspora, tomorrow
By TMS Ruge via Project Diaspora Invisible Children has issued a statement calling for a meeting with Ugandan Diaspora tomorrow, March 31st. No doubt the agenda at said meeting is going to be about the...
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Nodding Disease: Success stories under difficult circumstances
“For a typical 12-year-old who should be the picture of health: physical, overly playful, full of energy, noisy and mobile, Nancy Lamwaka is the opposite. She is skinny, malnourished, hungry,...
View ArticleCensorship ahead of the IPU assembly in Kampala: On Nodding Disease
In the next few days Uganda will host the 126th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) assemby. The IPU assembly brings over 3000 delegates to Kampala. This assembly will discuss issues on (good) governance...
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UgandaSpeaks in response to Kony2012
Invisible Children’s Kony2012 video brought infamy to Central Africa’s rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and its leader, Joseph Kony. But many have criticised the campaign for ignoring...
View ArticleUn-answered questions, freedom of speech but not necessarily after speech
As I write this the proverbial media siege that has rocked Kampala and the Ugandan news for over 12 days now as been lifted .The images on our television sets depicting the manner in which the...
View ArticleWHY THE UGANDAN PUBLIC IGNORED THE MEDIA SIEGE
I have been following the bashings that many rights campaigners have been levying at the Ugandan public regarding our indifference to the Government siege of the Monitor Publications and Red Pepper...
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At least 20,000 “ghost voters” in Uganda’s voter register ahead of February 8...
With just about 9 days to the 2016 presidential elections, many Ugandans are itching to vote. According to the Electoral Commission (EC) of Uganda, almost everything is in place for the February 18th...
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