What Ugandans think of Obama’s “Special Forces”
For Ugandans the Americans are basically aiding a military infrastructure that will mostly terrorize local people and strengthen an unpopular dictator.
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Uganda’s Guantánamo
If you're accused of 'terrorism' in Uganda, you end up at Luzira Prison, known for torture and its 5,000 prisoners in a place with a capacity of 500.
Music Break / Sylvester & Ssavoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da7K3e0M8SI The video for Kampala rappers Sylvester & Ssavoo’s “Akaseera” comes with a laid back groove.
Independence Day in Uganda
Ugandans may not have much to celebrate under President Yoweri Museveni's now 25 year rule, but the music must go on.
Music Break / Michael Kiwanuka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlXkKCa2yy0 Another Michael Kiwanuka tune.
The "colorful" women of Karamoja
By Dan Moshenberg Somebody call Paul Gauguin. The site of exotic exploration of bare naked, happy
Music Break / Maurice Kirya
“Wooye” by Ugandan crooner Maurice Kirya.
'For the Africans in the Diaspora'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkDVUVosSgA From somewhere in American suburbia, the very frank, at times trite The Ten Minute Fix,
Mahmood Mamdani on Uganda
The umpteenth stand-off between Uganda's government and the "Walk to Work" protests by opposition forces.
Save the Museum (in Uganda)
Just about this time last year, Uganda lost a priceless part of its cultural heritage when
‘The Worst Place To Be Gay’
Homosexuality can get you beheaded in Saudi Arabia and there are several other places with similar policies. But, Uganda’s pretty bad.
Puppet History
Peter Muhumuza Tuke's film "Kengere" - using puppets - tells the story of how soldiers trapped 69 people in a train that was then set on fire during Uganda's civil war.
Gay in Africa
Two photographers - unrelated - highlight the precarious existence of gay lives on the continent.
The Murder of David Kato
This statement, signed by a group of African bloggers, including this site, was published a month after Ugandan LGBTQ activist David Katu's murder.
"Wow, Africans on skateboards, so cool"
Yan Gross, the Swiss photographer and skateboarder–in an interview with South African journalist, Sean O’Toole, in
The Life and Death of David Kato
The Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was murdered on January 26th, 2011.
'5 Networks that Matter in East Africa'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGiLEEX5OuQ&feature=player_embedded&w=500&h=307&rel=] Rakesh Rajani, the head of Tanzanian “citizen-centered initiative”, Twaweza, on the “five key networks that
Do you need another rap film?
Do the foregrounding of celebrities and stories of human tragedy help or hurt two new films about hip hop in Uganda?
The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
Dutch photographer Andrea Stultiens met Ugandan Kaddu Wasswa in 2008 through his grandson, photographer Arthur Kisitu.
Mother Russia
New York City artist Maria Buyondo grew up in Russia and Sweden, the child of a Russian mother and an Ugandan father.