In our previous article about the Makerere University row that ensued at Mitchell Hostel, when holier-than-thou boys turned against their fellow students, accusing them of homosexuality, thus subjecting them to mob justice before the university police operatives quelled the situation, we discussed the deteriorating academic values—tolerance and independent thinking—at the institution. Of course, many people […]
Opinion Piece
Before organizations had names. Before we had the words to call ourselves a movement. There was music. There was a place to breathe. There was DJ Rachael. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Uganda’s queer community was scattered, hidden, and surviving however we could. There were almost no safe places to just exist. But […]
Over the weekend, leaked nude videos of a TikToker called “Chicken, Chicken” hit X and TikTok, and Uganda’s internet lost its collective mind. Thousands of amateur detectives started examining birthmarks, analyzing rooms, comparing body types like they were solving a murder mystery instead of participating in someone’s public humiliation. Fun times. Then Minister of State […]
Makerere University is the oldest and largest institution of higher learning in Uganda, established in 1922, and for so many years, it has produced great minds, including political, academic, professional, and literary people. Yet with such an interesting history, the university has regressed more than it has progressed. While education’s sole essence is to unlearn […]
Look, I get it. You hear “2026 elections” and your immediate response is to check your savings account, stock up on airtime before the inevitable internet shutdown, and mentally prepare for another season of politicians competing for who can say the most unhinged things about gay people on NBS. Your survival instinct isn’t whispering “civic […]
Anglican Church’s Priorities Remain Crystal Clear: Not Uganda or Ugandans In a stunning display of theological priorities, the Church of Uganda has once again reminded its flock what truly matters: not the Ugandans languishing in overcrowded prisons, not the mothers dying from preventable complications due to inadequate healthcare, and certainly not the deteriorating human rights […]
Dubai sells itself as a city of dreams—a glittering paradise where fortunes are made and lives are transformed. But behind the neon skyline, a darker reality thrives in the shadows. At the centre of one of the most shocking recent revelations is Charles “Abbey” Mwesigwa, a Ugandan man once behind the wheel of a London […]
Suicide is a pressing public health concern in East Africa. In Uganda, the crude suicide mortality rate stood at 5.5 deaths per 100,000 people in 2021, while Kenya reported 6.1 per 100,000 (crude) and 11.0 per 100,000 (age-standardised). Across the WHO African region, the figure is approximately 11.2 per 100,000. While these statistics are already troubling, […]
On September 2, 2025, Burkina Faso’s transitional parliament passed a sweeping reform to its Persons and Family Code, criminalizing homosexuality for the first time in the country’s history. Under the new law, acts deemed to “promote homosexual practices” carry sentences of two to five years in prison, steep fines, and even deportation for foreign nationals. […]
Kampala, September 2025—When Indiana’s Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith declared that the separation of church and state is “a dangerous falsehood weaponised to dismantle our Republic,” many Americans were shocked. For LGBTQ Ugandans, however, this kind of rhetoric feels disturbingly familiar—because we’ve lived through the consequences of politicians blurring the line between religion and governance. The […]