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Nnanna's fate #Stories4Health
I thought I’d enjoy the break from school since i didn’t have a lot of friends at school I would miss anyway. I thought wrong because only a month into […] More
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"Mujooga basajja mwe!" – The value of a 10k shilling note in this pandemic. #Stories4Health
The text came in at 10:00 pm in the night. Hey, have you seen the news today? Man, it’s crazy. It was my brother Niwarinda. This was on Sunday 17th […] More
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I curved a mufere
I’ve missed bafere calling me up so I decided that the next one that called me, I’d be polite and engage with them. One just called the office phone purporting […] More
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RIP Violet Kakai and a call for Men to Stand Up Against Domestic Violence
This story going around on social media of woman who was clobbered by her husband is really depressing. Very depressing and you know what’s more sad and annoying about it, […] More
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BREAKING THE CYCLE OF SILENCE
COMMUNITY-LED EFFORTS TO ADDRESS RAPE, INCENT AND DEFILEMENT IN ZAMBIA. Lusaka and Zambia at large has recently recorded alarming numbers of rape,incent and defilement cases.According to the Zambian police service, […] More
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This is about the humanity inside us more than it is about gay rights
The above image depicts a round-up of revellers at an LGBT friendly bar, surrounded by police. There’s a very interesting scene in the Bible when Jesus was like, chilling with […] More
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Can We Please Learn To Take Credit Whenever It's Due?
I once read, from the newspapers, a story of a man, as old as a dinosaur, who had defiled a six year old girl. As if defilement had not been […] More
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WE SHOULD ALL TAKE RAPE ALLEGATIONS SERIOUSLY.
In January, social media was awash with allegations of sexual assault and rape. The discussion was polarizing. For many women, it was a long-overdue discussion that proved right what they […] More
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The Depressed Infant
It is a late Thursday evening in downtown Bweyogerere. In, Kakana Clinic, a shoddy establishment run by even more shoddy staff, a woman is placed on one of the rickety […] More
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Sisters are Taking Care of Business
Disclaimer: I was in the middle of a long note, and kept getting side-tracked. It was probably going to be the longest thing I had written so far, and needed […] More
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In 1966, a ghost was born in the High Court of Uganda.
This wicked creature has haunted the hallways, chambers, and registries of the country’s Judiciary for nearly sixty years. Many lawyers, judges, activists, government officials, journalists, scholars, politicians, royals, and presidents […] More
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Kiggundu v Diamond Trust Bank (U) Ltd & Another: Executive and Legislative lethargy punished or Judicial aloofness in overdrive?
The Privatization Unit(PU) had just hired a legal wizard. It is rare to get a 1st Class degree in law from the School of Law, Makerere University. The PU advertised […] More
