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Nigerians: we love you, but you love some exceptionalism too much. You're too quick to exceptionalise yourselves and your suffering. Museveni's dictatorship has been wilding, Omah Lay and Tems' experience isn't because of their Nigerianness. Museveni deported Yvonne Chaka Chaka.
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Stella Nyanzi has been announced winner of The Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression 2020. Given that she remains jailed, she sent a handwritten note in the place of an acceptance speech.
#FreeStellaNyanzi
#45Poems4Freedom
#Push4StellaNyanzi
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Like we ridicule the US for its collective ignorance about the world outside its borders, only caring about exploiting it, South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya generally and in that order approach other African countries the same way. Too exceptional! Rarely center other Africans.
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And btw, I personally learnt about
#EndSARS
from Ugandan activists tweeting about it. If you reciprocated the interest other Africans take in you and your affairs, you'd have approached Omah Lay and Tems' arrest differently. You'd have known about the November massacre in Uganda.
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You hide behind your colonial nationalism, aka flag nationalism, and have built an exceptionalist attitude that distorts your analyses of how other Africans in other countries are suffering. Omah Lay and Tems' case isn't about Nigerianness but Museveni's dictatorial methods.
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Uganda is a colonial creation. That is not "news". English as the official language of Uganda is of course a colonial imposition. That is also not "news". It may however be news to some, that Kiswahili as an official language of Uganda, is also a colonial imposition.
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The Moi dictatorship put out a warrant of arrest for Matigari, and when they realised he was a character in a novel by Ngugi wa Thiong'o confiscated all the copies they could find. Ngugi created a fictitious character that put a dictatorship on tension they wanted to arrest him.
On this day, in 1938, Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kamiriithu, in present day Kenya. What are your favourites of his many books? We wish him a very wonderful birthday.
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In 2018, let's read more books. Let's leave the idea that seeing tweets about a topic makes us knowledgeable enough to form opinions, or finding stuff on reductive blogs and websites should replace books. Let's read, let's have informed opinions. Even if it means tweeting less.
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@timi_taiwo_
@JackyKemigisa
Because really, from Lugard (the colonial figure in both Ugandan and Nigerian histories) to the
#LekkiMassacre
and the November massacre in Uganda, what ordinary Nigerians are going through, ordinary Ugandans are going through, too. Our different flags do nothing for us!
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Victoria has no lake in Africa. Please call that lake by the names the people who have lived around it for centuries call it. Lake Victoria is not just fiction, it is an oppressive fantasy. To repeat it is to participate in the oppression. Victoria has no lake in Africa.
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I managed to defend my dissertation, two months ago on July 28, 2023. The PhD journey wasn't easy. In the six years it took, I survived an assassination attempt in January 2019 and overcame a lot more personal challenges. I lost so much and gained even more. Gratitude is a must.
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The African youth drowning in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe are literally following resources looted from their African countries by Europe.
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If the US were an African country, how would White Experts and intellectuals describe what is happening now? Let us use those adjectives.
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Uganda is not a Nation. "Ugandans" are not one people. Uganda is only about property. Uganda is violence. Uganda is a prison. Uganda is a plantation. Uganda is a colony. Uganda is an enterprise. Uganda will be abolished. Uganda must be abolished for "Ugandans" to be free.
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The ePub / PDF version of the book is available on the
@DarajaPress
website. In the spirit of open access, you can contribute any amount to the press, or nothing, and download the book. Follow the link below.
Prof. Sylvia Tamale, sociologist, feminist and professor of Law at Makerere University, who spoke at the
#Writivism2015
festival, has just published a new book, Decolonization and Afro-Feminism via Daraja Press. More information from the publisher -
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Stella Nyanzi has not only campaigned on a feminist platform (she's not the first to do so), but also directly included sexual and gender minorities in her anti-dictatorship manifesto. If she wins, it will prove that Ugandan voters are more discerning than usually portrayed.
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Thomas Sankara was a Socialist. Sankara was an internationalist. Sankara was a Feminist. Sankara was a Pan Africanist.
Stop denigrating his name by calling free market capitalist dictators who serve US imperialist interests in Africa and beyond the Sankaras of today. Just Stahp
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Is Parliament part of Government?
[A quick thread]
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Class can't be an axis of intersectionality because it is not an identity like race and gender. Class is a position, a relation. Your class is determined by your economic position in the production process. Are you an exploiter or the exploited? Class is beyond intersectionality.
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For every African topic where white writers and scholars are venerated, there are thousands, even millions of African knowledge creators ignored and erased by those very white writers and scholars and their enablers. It is racism. We are always there, beneath the surface.
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1. Been re-reading Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and here are 80 quotes in a thread. Mute me if this is not of interest to you.
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Museveni after stealing an election delivered the angriest "victory" speech in the history of victory speeches! Why would he be angry after winning? Lol. He couldn't hide his loss and theft. Smh.
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1.This is loooong thread: almost 200 Quotes (Tweets) from Walter Rodney’s seminal How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Broken into chapters.
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@KakwenzaRukira
@KakwenzasBooks
The only time one can ignore a misspelling of their own name, surely.
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Justice Adonyo of the High Court has declared that
@drstellanyanzi
should be released immediately overturning conviction and sentence for the cyber harrassment of oweri Museveni, reports from Kampala say.
#FreeStellaNyanzi
#BoldLikeStellaNyanzi
#NoRosesFromMyMouth
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Julia Sebutinde’s judgment ideologically must be read from the historical and contextual perspective of Israel using the evangelical movement as a tool for its foreign policy. These networks are so obvious in the highest echelons of neocolonial power in Uganda.
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I feel proud to be African every time I enter Ghana, without a visa. It is mostly in Ghana that one feels that African citizenship exists.
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“They confused their privilege with intellect.” - Dionne Brand, Theory
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Definitions matter. Reading widely is important. Beyond threads. Beyond Facebook posts. Beyond TED talks. Reading the primary texts that provide definitions for loaded terms really matters. Especially when one wants to construct a counter argument. Understand before disagreeing.
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Stella Nyanzi's "recent" poetry through Marechera's eyes
In 2019, while we worked with the Push for Stella Nyanzi campaign, she gratituosly criticised some of the comrades we were working with, to attain her release from jail and the dropping of the trumped up cases against her.
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The Radio One journalist is asking Byabakama the real questions. Why announce results without saying the districts of origin for the 2nd and 3rd update? Also, for 1st update which mentioned only rural districts, why not announce urban areas, which are near the EC HQ? Good!
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Historians of "Africa" need a healthy dose of skepticism when dealing with material written by Europeans about anything African. They need to learn to trust oral history, and ultimately the people who bear their own history, than cheap propaganda written by Europeans about us.
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Museveni's dictatorship is petty and embarrassing. So Museveni says roads constructed on national debt are his, and Bobi Wine shouldn't use them. And the police then has to divert Bobi from main roads to rural murram roads because he shouldn't use Museveni's roads. Silly, really.
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Remember that the NBS TV (Next Media) CEO, Kin Kariisa was mentioned as having aided M7's Operation Fungua Macho, which surveilled online activists to neutralize the Walk to Work uprising in 2011-2012.
So, do not be surprised by what his media "empire" is doing now. Once a spy.
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Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine will be President of Uganda.
Mark this tweet.
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Look at one of my eyes carefully. That extension, the scar, and extra layer below, as well as the keloids on the chin and neck are the patchwork of Museveni and his son Muhoozi and the imperialism on whose behalf they mutilate bodies everywhere. Would you forsake your own body?
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Stella Nyanzi. Stella Nyanzi. Keep the name alive. Keep the struggle flame burning. Stella Nyanzi. Stella Nyanzi.
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It is interesting how white scholars are called Africa experts and then the African scholars are identified by nationality, in problematic stereotyping articles masquerading as analysis. Prof. Whiteman, an Africa expert ... Then, Ms. Black Woman, a South African student ... Sick
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"Kwame Ture turned down a scholarship to Harvard
University to continue his work with SNCC and thanks to his oratory gifts and organising skills he soon emerged as one of the foremost civil rights leaders, second only in stature to his
friend and mentor Dr Martin Luther King Jr."
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March 8 is the International WORKING Women’s Day
International WORKING Women's Day
A Communist holiday
A Socialist holiday
A Marxist holiday
A workers' holiday
NOT a liberal bourgeois day
A day to commemorate the socialist / communist / working women's struggle
Readings...
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Why is that national park in Western Uganda still named after Elizabeth? Why?
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How come some men who admire Sankara never get to his feminist opinions? How come they don't see his feminism as part of his uprightness?
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So many people are missing in Uganda, among them the Olympian Justin Jjuuko, and the UK resident David Seki Kiggundu who was abducted at the airport. The thousands of missing people, all circumstances show, have been disappeared by the Museveni dictatorship.
#FreeUganda
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I used to think, like many do, that Kiswahili would be a "Pan-Africanist" choice for official language, until I read the Mazruis' book on the language and saw the facts of its colonial and violent introduction and the resistance by natives. Kiswahili is not indigenous to Uganda.
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Somebody who goes on TV to gloat about killing and disappearing political opponents doesn't "secure" anybody, they are a terrorist and a criminal. What Museveni calls security is terrorism and criminal. Killing and disappearing the people you're supposed to protect is terrorism.
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I have seen a thread that has reminded me of a particular class of "Africans" who move into other countries than their own, and take pleasure in calling the natives all sorts of names! I lost count of the "Kenyans" in Uganda who kept calling Ugandans lazy, unserious, docile etc!
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"Nationalism is a struggle for a whole people. Socialism is either an ideology or a new stage of society. Nationalism could lead to socialism or it could lead to capitalism. It could incorporate bourgeois ideology or socialist ideology."
- Walter Rodney
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"... when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they envy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself."
- Jamaica Kincaid
If you’re wondering, I’m not looking at the time, I’m looking at my Rolex 😂💁🏼♂️🤪
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Of what Thomas Sankara, the Burkinabe Marxist, Feminist and Pan Africanist president for 4 years said, what matters most, what challenged capitalism, imperialism, sexism and White supremacy most was that he owned only a car, a refrigerator, a few bicycles, and several guitars.
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"Sexual inequality as we know it today did not exist before the advent of private property. During early eras of human history the sexual division of labour within the system of economic production was complementary as opposed to hierarchical." - Angela Davis, Women, Race & Class
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In honor of Salvador's brother, who was killed by the blood-thirsty dictatorship for simply exercising his political rights, do not visit Uganda! Visiting Uganda is to dance on the graves of all those who have been killed by the dictatorship.
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All Ugandans who have beaten the Social media blockade to bring us news, thank you. You are leaders.
#UgandaDecides
#UgandaDecides
Keep up!
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Is it pettiness or legitimate self care to keep a distance from people who choose to be friends with those who once tried to destroy me?
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Creative writers who don't read beyond creative writing treat writing as a vocational thing, than an intellectual exercise. They have a mechanical and purely commercial approach to their work. They don't engage ideas. They just churn out stuff to make money, they're unread.
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John Nagenda has been announced dead. But his words, especially when he wrote that Kizza Besigye "has chosen to associate with the dregs of society, the stone and rock hurlers, the great unwashed of the slums" will live forever.
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Tanzania under Magufuli had set 2025 for itself to attain a certain goal. They achieved it in 2020. Uganda under Museveni had set 2020 as the target to attain the same goal. Guess who hasn't attained that goal. Uganda. Tanzania is five years ahead of its own goals, Uganda?
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My thoughts on this topic are still forming, as I work through my own recent history, the place of neoliberal logics of organising society and solving 'problems' in it, but I want to say tentatively that 'entrepreneurship will not save us, not even the non profit / social kind'.
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Musevenists love to harp on having had only 27 guns when they launched a war against Obote, but it is a lie. Museveni had been minister of defense, he had been vice chairman of the military commission and had amassed weapons while occupying those positions, not just 27 guns!
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"I hate the word middle east, or the word post colonial, or third world. It is insulting, who is the first world? What do you mean post colonial, we are still living in colonialism. What do you mean middle east? Egypt is in Africa. Middle from where?"
- Nawal El-Sadaawi
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Everybody pays tax. Direct taxes are not the only taxes. Indirect taxes form the largest portion of taxes. Everybody who consumes anything and that is everybody, pays tax under capitalism as a mode of production. Everybody pays tax. Everybody pays tax. Indirect taxes matter.
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Dear lawyer-writers: BIG words really spoil your writing. They may show that you are addicted to dictionaries and thesauruses, but as a reader, they really kill the mood, distract the flow of your writing, and generally suck the juice out of your work. Please help us, readers.
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Would you like to check out my short fiction? In the name of reading, engaging and supporting my work? A thread with links to where to find some of it. (Let me keep the self promotion going.)
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Museveni's dictatorship is deploying two seemingly "contradictory" strains of homophobia against Bobi Wine.
[a thread]
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RACISM IS NOT ONLY OVER THERE, IN AMERICA, BUT IS ALSO RIGHT HERE, IN UGANDA (A Thread)
I have just read
@Rukwengye
's op-ed titled "In America it is racism but in Uganda it’s who is your father" () on the
@DailyMonitor
website and the title alarmed me.
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Some black male Pan Africanists and even socialists who want to maintain their male privilege want Sankara without his feminism.
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When talking about Museveni's repression, rape is not a metaphor, please. It is committed as part of systematic military operations to break the spirits and bodies of opponents to Museveni's dictatorship. Rape for Museveni is not a metaphor. He is a literal rapist. A criminal.
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50 + Quotes (Tweets) from bell hooks’ Where we stand: Class Matters (published in 2000). Indispensable reading, no jargon. Thread Loading...
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"Feminism is failing to take hold in Uganda because of the discrepancy between middle-class and working-class women."
- Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
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In the discussion about the change of names of Kampala streets, someone mentioned the change of the name of Northcote hall to Nsibirwa hall. The actual history of that name change is however more complex and I do not think it is "glorious" for progressive forces.
A thread.
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A bad day for Mamdani and Makerere.
Besides losing to Dr. Stella Nyanzi, they have also lost in another case where a student sued them for tampering with his PhD dissertation supervision and examination.
Yusuf Sserunkuuma, the PhD student has been awarded UGX 25m as damages.
The High Court has ruled that: whereas it is not normal for a PhD student to choose his/her supervisor, it is unfair for Universities to force supervision of a PhD student by someone the student considers biased or that person's proteges. Court, in the case of
@YusufSerunkuma
...
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Mukiibi is not dead. He lives in every teacher, school owner, lecturer etc who uses their power to get sexually engaged with their students.
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"Secure the bag" activists are capitalists, milking activism. The revolutionaries are calling for the abolition of the bag. Like, money should be abolished please, and you are outchea turning activism into a profit-making machine?
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Let me tell you: it isn't that we don't know things, or that we don't write what we know, or that we don't research, or that we don't publish. We do all these things and are ignored. Then a white body becomes the authority and our work is erased. It is racism.
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"Part of the problem has been that the NRM views money as the solution to everything in itself. " - Bobi Wine (35) to Museveni (72). 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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The 1972 expulsion of Asians from Uganda was more complex than Asians were "evicted and expelled from their home in Uganda because of the color of their skin". The liberal simplification of the issue is perhaps part of the reason Asian-African relations remain fraught in Uganda.
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There's someone in Kabale who is going to bed thinking about all his food gardens that have just been washed away by torrential rains. Someone awake and hosting a vigil for a child whose life was taken by a landslide today. There's misery in Kabale because of torrential rains.
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“I have eight cars,” my sister’s wealthy suitor once boasted, and my father replied, “Why?”
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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While Kiswahili is an African language, is indigenous to some parts of Africa, has spread to other parts of Africa, sometimes as a language of liberation (I am thinking the Southern parts of the continent), this is not the language's story in "Uganda". It is foreign to Uganda.
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Museveni has ruled Uganda since 1986, first 10 years unelected and has rigged every election since then. With the latest rigged election, he wants to rule for 40 years. Bobi Wine and Mugisha Muntu have dismissed the election results and sworn to continue the struggle for freedom.
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Eh! People who have one script for diaspora audiences, which is revolutionary what what, but then come back home, to their countries of origin, and unleash the worst classism known to humanity, please, what "revolution" beyond rhetoric are you about, without a class analysis?
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Hey, if you are an emerging, aspiring, young, not widely published writer, remember to hype your own work, first. Don't repeat my mistakes else you stay emerging and aspiring forever, like me. Hype your work, and your peers' work. Grow a mutually beneficial community.
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I was reading your father's work the other night, to imagine someone who bears such an important name as you, is tweeting this type of Fake news is really heartbreaking. I am heartbroken for your late father. To imagine the blood on your inlaws' heads has turned you into this.
NUP Radicals Mount Roadblocks on Masaka- Mbarara highway, Collect money from Passengers to Bail Bobi Wine - Trumpet News
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Why do we, Africans in some countries, refuse to support our own initiatives and jump onto those by White people, especially the mediocre?
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Those tweets about "Hooliganism" and "rowdy" protesters (the "riots" framing too) are a dogwhistle. What is a dogwhistle? "A subtly aimed political message which is intended for, and can only be understood by, a particular group." It is meant to justify the military violence.
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This month,
@Writivism
announced a relaunch, finishing off my wishes for 2023. I completed the PhD in English at the end of July, and I have started a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor, Global Africana Literatures at CSUDH this month as well.
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Sometimes, it is not that we disagree. It is that we actually do not know / understand what someone is saying, at all, and we mistake that lack of knowledge for disagreement. In 2018, may we learn to say stuff like, I do not know about that, so I can't agree / disagree.
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@timi_taiwo_
@JackyKemigisa
Dani Wadada Nabudere's Imperialism and Revolution in Uganda is a good starting point.
@SharingUbuntu
's channel may help with the PDF / ebook version of that very book and other titles and materials.
We have started a Telegram channel to share material about radicalism in Uganda, Africa and the Black diasporic world.
You can sign up:
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So the big private businesses turn out to all belong to Mr. Museveni and his family or their associates, so in the place of the private sector, Uganda has a Museveni sector. The state therefore as a tool not for just for capitalism but for the Museveni family's capitalism.
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The reports of UPDF soldiers raping the women among the detained Bobi Campaign Team must be taken seriously. Museveni uses rape as a tool against his opponents, from raping men and women in Acholi, to raping political prisoners. Museveni's dictatorship is violent in all ways.
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Why do you still use English to condemn colonialism? Because English is the language of the prison and we are still in prison. Punishments still exist for using our African languages. Next?
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Mbu in Uganda, they order an electricity blackout around the time for the daily evening news when the stories show brutal actions of the Museveni dictatorship. Is it true? Nowadays, nothing is surprising about Museveni's shamelessness. Somebody tell me, we add to the pettiness.
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As
@NativeLandgrab
would put it, Julia Sebutinde is a classic case of a result of the “mission school system”. Gayaza and “Budo” are two of the oldest and still considered best schools in the colonial construct of Uganda. They were started by the Church Missionary Society.
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Ankole was created by the British on October 25, 1901 when they added to the original Nkore, the former independent kingdoms of Igara, Sheema, Buhweju and parts of Mpororo. Like "Uganda", Ankole is a colonial creation.
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Why must there be a "foreign" language, even if an African one, imposed by force (it is renown as a military language and many have traumatic memories of being violated, that we attach to the language), as an official language? What is wrong with indigenous "Ugandan" languages"?
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The funny or silly bit about those "The Uganda I live in" posts and tweets is that the people posting them don't live in national parks and game reserves. They're not posting their homes. They're posting tourist attractions. Places they go to, as visitors. Anyway, as you were.
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Middle / upper class people should stop nwe-nwering about revolution if they do not want to stop exploiting the working class and therefore lose their middle / upper class positioning. Class is not an identity. It is a relation of production. It is an economic position.
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