Lydia Namubiru
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My 11-year old asked me not to send her to the supermarket again, because "up there, near it, there are men." Men are already harassing her. You tell me feminists overreact or are too angry? I don't live in a war zone but can't send my kid to the shop. Shut up.
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People like to romanticise the “resilience of African women” but our life expectancy is 66 compared to 81 for women globally. We don’t endure, we die. Take care of us. Don’t romanticise the fatal difficulties of our lives.
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But this is abuse. People don’t get abused because they made wrong marital choices. They are abused because abusers exist and the society around them either enables the abuse or does not act to deter or stop it.
Hired an accountant, she was supposed to start yesterday. She sent a message in the morning saying her husband had stopped her from coming to work. Then she added - “I really need the job, let me talk to my in-laws and see”. 💔
Who you marry is really important.
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One of the most demented things people say about single mothers is that we teach our children to despise their absent fathers. 1) We be busy getting them to eat vegetables & respect bedtime. 2)If you want kids to think of you as some hero, stick around & do your own propaganda.
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Ugandans legit pull down their masks out of respect for the person they are greeting. The same way they take their caps off. Cute. We are going to die politely.
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When I wrote this piece after her interview with Museveni, I contacted Amanpour for comment and got no response. And now she is doing it again. They don’t care about us. They just want to use our persecution as bait for content.
Gay sex is illegal in Kenya and President-elect
@WilliamsRuto
previously said “we have no room for gays.” Ruto tells me “we respect everybody,” but adds “this is not a big issue for the people of Kenya” and President Kenyatta was “spot on” to say homosexuality “is not agreeable.”
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I used to dream of moving to Ghana to live out my pan-African dream. But I visited and spoke to the country’s top homophobes for a story. I woke from my “Nkrumah’s Ghana” romance. Just another hustle state where politicians sellout citizens, & themselves, to white bigots
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My grandfather planted this jacaranda tree on the eve of Uganda’s independence. It went on to grow crookedly, which I think is apt. And it fell down last year, which I take as a sign.
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My closest friend and I talk a lot about how the adults of our childhood were not adults at all but traumatized & overladen children whom you could set off by coughing at the wrong time.
I know y’all like to tussle but hear me out..most of our parents grew up with a lot less privilege, harsher conditions, were given a lot less grace but aren’t as depressed and or suicidal as much as our generation. What’s the science there?
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Me: Please, let me publish your story on Facebook.
Offspring: No. No. No.
Me: Bambi, on Twitter 🙏...
Offspring: Twitter, hmm... Okay, why not?
Offspring (10 minutes later): But do you think they will even read it?
Me: I'm sure they will
Offspring: Fingers crossed
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🤣🤣🤣 An internet blocker sending out a ""RT please, my interventionist might be on your TL" video and starting with, "my name is Ali Bongo, president of Gabon" is a most 21st century political moment
NEW VIDEO: Gabon president Ali Bongo Ondimba appeals for international support after military coup - in English
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If you can’t afford gorilla tracking but still want to watch smaller apes crowd around a boisterous silverback, you can always just camp in the comments section of a rich man’s Twitter account.
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I genuinely feel bad that Africans are still willing to alienate each other over imported religion. Colonialism really took a lot from us. Even our most intense feelings are informed by foreign myths. They really ransacked us.!
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@ProfAlang
Why critique who marries who, rather than the act of marrying itself? Even same sex people who marry each other get benefits for participating in that patriarchal & respectability politics institution that other queer people can’t have.
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Because Covid taught us that instead of making you stronger, what doesn't kill you makes you disabled and then mutates and tries again, I hope you live 2022 as a coward. If it looks like a threat, hide or run away. Only the living write history. Live to lie about your valour.
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Americans are almost impressive for their capacity to articulate and dissect the problems of their country, without solving them.
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One of the campaign promises of Botswana’s current president was “decriminalizing homosexuality”, which happened about a year later. Whatever you label “African values”, there is another group of Africans saying, “don’t include us. Don’t include us in your stupidity.”
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Of course homosexuality is not a western import. But a lot of the ways in which we pursue LGBTIQ liberty are western imports and some of them have harmed African queer people. The NGO model in particular, often feels like drawing queer people out for yet more harm.
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Uganda won silver at the World Junior Chess Championships for the disabled. Gold went to the Russian team, bronze to the U.S. The Ug team was trained and sent in by the SOM chess academy, of the Queen of Katwe fame.
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I keep thinking: 500 people were killed by a storm in Malawi just days ago! But each African country and community is embroiled in its own small town politics and theatrics. What is this thing called pan-Africanism?
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Guys, it doesn't matter why a woman rejects you. Maybe it's trivial. You said "popcorns" instead of popcorn. Maybe it's classist. You can't afford Serena. Maybe it's legit. You don't smell too good. It doesn't matter. Stop when she says, "no." Don't go to jail for this shit.
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It’s important to cultivate the skill of correctly identifying & name abuse situations. You may not always be able to act to stop another’s abuse situation but it can help in your own life with identifying & running away from abuse situations before your defenses have been eroded
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And please remember: abuse can happen to anyone. Including those the are absolutely sure they made the right marital choice. It happens in work and business relations too (especially this kind that involves controlling one’s labour) and even friendships.
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LOL … You people work so hard to avoid looking poor yet we are infact poor. Also, disposable isn’t the same as single use. I will dispose of it when it’s broken.
Dear Africans, this is called Disposable. When you’re done using it you throw it in the bin.
Keeping this at home means you have a poverty mindset.
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I disagree. Nansubuga’s work is completely disinterested in engaging the white gaze/mind while Achebe’s strikes me as pre-occupied with translating us for it. I would say she does for Ugandan literature what Achebe didn’t for Nigerian literature: centering the indigenous reader.
Someone said, “Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi does for Ugandan literature what Chinua Achebe did for Nigerian literature”, and I couldn’t agree more!📚
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Why do people schedule things for 8am? Do you not have lovers sleeping over? Neither do I but I still don't schedule anything until 11am.
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If you're sleeping with your legitimate wife, does it bother you if police places a camera in your bedroom?
If you are earning legitimate money and paying taxes, why are you worried of URA accessing your bank account details?
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They thought online expression was a pain so they started taxing it. Now they get offline expression.
Ugandans feared until there is Nothing left to fear.
She has stormed this meeting b'se these policy makers sit in these fancy places to spend tax payers money yet the actual tax payers are suffering.
#TaxpolicyUG
Ugandans are tireddddd
You all Ugandans should watch this.
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The burning of Rebecca Cheptegei has really shaken me. Each time I read about it, I need to take 5 and lie down. Existing as a woman is incredibly terrifying. You can just be there in your house, in peace time, on an ordinary Sunday, and someone you used to kiss sets you ablaze!
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If your parents were gay, you would still have been born. To get through the act of conceiving you, your gay mother would “lie back and think of England”. Like your straight mother did.
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Do. not. work. for. assholes.
Do. not. date. them.
Do. not. make. small. talk. with. them.
And be furious at each attempt to diminish you.
Dear women in their 30s. Can you please share something critical you’ve learnt during your journey. Something you wished younger you knew 🙏🏼
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Rwanda leaders who survived genocide must show the world at every turn that the trauma didn’t make them monsters. But Israeli leaders are egged on as they use the memory of their ancestors surviving genocide to justify enacting one themselves. I think about that a lot.
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Ordered for a Stoney and ice naye binsobeddemu katini wanno.
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In childhood we are told to become soft spoken lest no one choose to marry us.
In boardrooms we are spoken over because our soft voices aren't authoritative enough.
In activism we are discredited because our words aren't soft enough.
They'll never stop policing our voices.
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Diane Rwigara and Victoire Ingabire, two women who challenged Kagame for the presidency, continue to be imprisoned.
But the streets are clean in Kigali. So, good morning.
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Our cover this week is by a Sudanese artist in exile. The edition is dedicated to the Resistance Committees that continue to organise for peace, aid and democracy; the diaspora webs holding fleeing peers; and the refugees uprooted into uncertain futures. Solidarity & Love.
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 153 of The Continent.
The civil war in Sudan has brought untold death and destruction. And yet, somehow, life goes on.
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We don’t want bazungu this, we don’t want abazungu the other, affiride Geneva.
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“He doesn’t care if this is someone’s wife”
You are all in the same WhatsApp group to be honest. Women are people even outside their relationships to men.
Is Gen. Museveni now going to apologise to all women and girls? As the world fights to end sexism, his son shamelessly publicises how he views women as mere sex objects! He doesn't care if this is someone's wife. The same Museveni signed a Computer Misuse Act to silence dissent!
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“Homosexuality causes …”
Well, heterosexuality caused you but we haven’t banned it yet.
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Kampala's favourite capitalist reportedly collects $316,000 in net profit a year from his restaurant chain. The chain reportedly pays each of its waiters about $570 a year.
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Help send this brave woman to university
Ajoke stared her father in her eyes and called him a rapist. He hit her, others joined in, she didn’t stop!
He locked her in a room for MONTHS with no shower, she was flogged with belts and chains yet she never backed down. She was a child. Braver than all the adults!
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My kid watches the scariest movies and I never got what she saw in them until an art teacher started taking her seriously. It’s the skeletons, for her!
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(Maybe too dated for the exhibition but …)
I had my child back when I was poor-poor. Health workers seem to hate poor patients on sight. I went to hospital even though I wasn’t in labour b’se I was 2 weeks past the expected delivery date. “Lugezigezi,” the nurse on duty said
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The trouble with being in love is that one does not want to do anything but be in love. I want a sabbatical so I can spend the next 180 days at her workplace, fetching her tools and filing her paperwork. She saves lives. What use is my work anyway?
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Happy Pride Month to my girlfriend whom I love dearly and will fight for at least as much as Magogo was fought for. I would take on an entire nation for you baby.
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This would the lowest amount of effort anyone ever put into committing a serious crime 🤣🤣
According to
@AirportGenCus
, a Kenyan woman had been arrested by Indian customs authorities at the airport while trafficking 2.5kgs of cocaine concealed in whiskey bottles into India.
Photo by
@AirportGenCus
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There is a surprisingly high number of people in this world who believe that whole populations can be dehumanised for decades, without at least some of them losing their shit and deciding to scorch the earth.
Do you also believe in magic?
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My child is really into 1990s music and apparently its aesthetic too 😍😍
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Kakwenza making that shit known while not “discussing the matter in the media” >>>>>>>>>
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Bad Black is the true love of my life. If I’ve ever told anyone else the same thing, I was lying.
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Her gift from G-d Almighty, kills other gifts from G-d Almighty, for a living.
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Should men be kept outdoors then? In kraals or kennels?
My unpopular opinion: Daughters shouldn't walk around the house wearing sports bras & boy shorts when a man is indoors 💯
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Today I learnt that people actually use PORK for President of the Republic of Kenya. Wow! I know KE is our knock-off America but for the love of God, err, Gaad!
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Kadaga tagged The Daily Monitor in her "tell the nation I am recovering" tweet, even though she tried to have its website banned when the paper reported (truthfully) that a traditional diviner had sued her.
Nobody has amnesia like an oppressor.
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I want to say that LGBTIQ people are (unusually) seen as a political concepts, not people, and that’s why one might miss the implications of repeating a call to murder us. But a genocide is being live-streamed without consequences. So maybe humanity is simply not very humane.
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No, let’s drink our water and mind our business. They’ll say it’s because we are not radical, not knowing we once swept the streets with our own clothes, to welcome liberators with similar talent in combining violence and revolutionary rhetoric
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Less advice, more money. Since you are successful business gurus, put your money in local venture capital pools. Then you can advise entrepreneurs you are actually invested in, and help them solve specific business problems not this gesturing generally.
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Please buy your blue ticks back. I respected your opinion more when I thought you were better than me. We can’t all be here in ki-Russia.
(BTW Ugandans, do we need to review this national consensus on calling the poor section “ki-Russia”? We seem to have changed allegiance)
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Happy Pride Month to all who queer even at the risk of death. May you outlive all your fragile neighbours. 🌈
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LOL; NO.
We actually like women. We intentionally fill even the non-sexual parts of our lives with women. Heterosexual men are sexually attracted to women but don’t like them — hence all ‘jokes’ about their ‘nagging wives’, the joys of a night or vacay away from women, etc.
i think lesbians and heterosexual men should get along over their mutual fondness for women
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There are so many things that break my heart about Ghana’s anti-LGBTIQ law but I think the sharpest thorn is that I bought into its branding as a beacon of pan-Africanism, but the bill speaks to national capture by evangelical christianity and fringe US whites.
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White people in Uganda are so lavished with attention that if you are simply disinterested, not even hostile, they take actual offense or read your disinterest as some challenge to work harder at worming their way into your world. Y’all weird.
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Story time:
Back when my mothers were just kids, the men arranged to marry off one of them at 13 or 14 to an older local man local in Gomba. Over the protests of her mother. Yaaya (the mother) seemed to acquisce under pressure, sulking at the back of the house. But … 1/
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We talk about how US evangelicals funding ultra-conservatives in Africa. But not enough about their own financial pursuits in Africa. Seeing them write ‘conversion therapy’ and ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ into our laws & policies, I think they want our public funds ultimately.
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A policeman asked me for facilitation and I asked him how I’m to know that he is not tricking me into breaking the law so that he arrests me for it. Nettugwa draw.
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In the quiet dark of the car after I picked her up from a concert at 2am, she asked, “mami, do you think I will ever become a wild teenager?”
She has tattoos, at least 8 body piercings and her hair is coloured red. The peer pressure bar must be very high these days.
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Uganda is very strange indeed. We have human rights lawyers who are homophobic!
Then again, the world has, and worships, a whole branch of feminists who are transphobic.
I would run away from this upside down country but to where?
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I really do feel bad for every girl who grows up going to church. Forging community with people who hate you, is the worst, most disorienting experience.
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Feminism is the end of every Uganda man’s understanding of freedom. Know that and instead of arguing with them, you’ll use your time for making the things you like (money, art or noodles). It’s actually true that they have nothing to add to your life except their limitedness.
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The world, not just Uganda, is very bad at legislating around sex (sexual violence and mere sexuality) because it’s very bad at talking about sex. Even the passing of hyperbolic laws — castration for rapists, jail for same sex attraction, is an attempt to avoid talking about it.
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An international school has introduced cashless payment cards for the canteen because those children of the rich were frequently paying with fake notes. What a statement on Ugandan wealth!
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A bodyguard who is owed 4 million killing the minister he guards, is an indicator of the deep economic pain Ugandans are enduring in an economy that didn’t recover after COVID. The pain & “eat the rich” impulse, that their rulers hope to distract them from, with moralist new laws
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My mum is tired of throwing graduation parties. She decided she'll only do a small tea party for her latest son to graduate. This, of course, involves a catering service, two tents, 2 serving tables & 40 guests, of whom only 3 are invited by the graduand. Anyway, we have tea too
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Investigative journalism isn’t when a reporter gives you a blow by blow account of their brave journey of asking questions. It’s when they give you the answers. Done well, the story need not burden you with the reporting process and mechanics at all.
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But seriously, heterosexual women, you are going to suffer for a long time. You are trying to build lives with people who think ‘transport money’ is a fair exchange for patriarchy dispossessing you of land rights, exploiting your labour, permitting violence against you!
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I wonder how many Ugandans know that oral sex between heterosexuals was outlawed in the year 2000. It's been 20 years of your criminality.
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When girls give dudes the wrong number that just happens to be mine, I put the dudes out of their misery by revealing that I am the headmaster of Sseeta High School.
Today’s dude pivoted to “I’m a counsellor who is passionate about teens, can we arrange a speaking session?”
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A lot of the shortcomings of Uganda’s hospitals are really beyond the health workers’ capacity to remedy. But they really could be kinder and more professional. Yes, there’s work overload and all that. But a lot of the obstetric violence women suffer is entirely unnecessary
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“My husband offered a Palestinian state to the Palestinians,” is so arrogant and also 100% Hilary Clinton. Always condescending like a school teacher speaking to and about kids.
Hillary Clinton on the Israelis and the Palestinians today on The View.
Covers everything from Hamas to humanitarian pauses to Yasser Arafat to Anwar Sadat.
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@bnamutebi
What should I tell her to do? I don't quite know. She says they even try to follow her. I'm definitely going to engage the LC about it. But what is an 11-year old supposed to do to defend herself or deter such actions?
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Do you sometimes look at a panel & wonder why the panelists didn't just go to their WhatsApp group & organise a private just drink-up? They are all obviously friends, repeating each other's point, cracking in-jokes. The conference attendees are just a captive audience.
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"I am a product of arts funding in the United Kingdom"
And that, dear Ugandans, is why he is not ours. His mum & the cultural institutions of the U.K made him. We should stand on the sidelines, thinking of what might have been, but allowing credit to fall where it's due.
Daniel Kaluuya makes an emotional
#EERisingStar
acceptance speech dedicated to his mum 💗
#EEBAFTAs
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All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 150 (!) of The Continent 🥳
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What if... I give you the man; you give me the food?
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I am literally crying. How utterly classy to continue their act even through the golden buzzer! Initially, I thought maybe they didn’t get how big that was but from their reaction at the end, they told did & just kept calm like consummate professionals.
This performance!! Woow 🥰Golden Buzzer well deserved.
🇺🇬 Ghetto Kids
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After being released on police bond on Monday, Andrew Arinaitwe,
@Anklerise
, reported to police today as required, was charged in court with criminal trespass, applied for bail, three of us stood surety but he was sent to Nkozi prison until March 14th (1/…)
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Mbu "men who beat women aren't real men." That would mean more than half of the women in this country are married to ghosts of men. Please! They are real men. They are you. They are your friends. Own it to solve it.
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I don’t know what I am more emotional about. That
@thecontinent_
is on Issue 100 or that we published in my mother tongue!!
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The world is run by vain old men who would rather commit mass murder than lose the arguments of their youth.
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Exactly. You bros love to create a whole political narrative when they are just feeling a ki-mango about the prominence of one particular African woman
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Nearly everyday I was at Columbia, there was a student protest. There was always at least one student on the steps of the grand Low library, holding a placard about a global, national or campus injustice. But hold a manila paper at Makerere & you trigger a national crisis!
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Being pregnant is so ghetto! No, I'm not. If I were, Marie would Stope that. I just remembered that I once was. So ghetto. Imagine me, an intellectual, walking around with a swollen abdomen. So ghetto.
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By being beaten and humiliated in school for speaking any other language, sadly.
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The only thing I learn from food debates is that people don’t want to taste whatever animal or plant gave its life for their meal. They want to taste pepper and cry. A sort of atonement, I suppose.
Who y’all think has the best African food? I say Ethiopia and Liberia
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Because I tend to tweet storm my depressive days, I should tweet more about the happy ones. I am at the point in my life when the good days far outnumber the dark ones. May we all be as luck more often.
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Not Kagame calling all of Uganda a refugee camp. He went to Ntare School, spent five years in Luwero triangle fighting for M7, then was an elite army leader, etc. All this in this refugee camp we call a country.
I grew up in a refugee camp. Thirty years. This so-called human-rights world didn't ask me what was happening for me to be there 30 years.
@PaulKagame
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All Ugandan journalists are entertainment journalists because we cover a clown show.
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