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 […]
Opinion Piece
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 […]
As Uganda approaches its 2026 general elections, much of the public discourse focuses on candidates, party alliances, and the promise of democratic renewal. Yet, for LGBTQ Ugandans, the ballot box represents something very different: a heightened period of fear and exposure. In a country where queer identities are criminalised and stigmatised, elections are not about […]
A Familiar Song with a Different Tune Reading about Christian nationalist influence in American schools, mandating biblical teachings, defunding public schools, and injecting religious doctrine into curricula—echoes too closely the patterns once seen in Uganda, albeit with different contours. In the U.S., public schools, long pillars of inclusive, secular education, are becoming battlegrounds, facing challenges […]
To listen to Chimano is to hear the story of countless queer Ugandans who cannot speak for themselves.
Nothing articulates the vilest threat to human dignity quite like a settled government broadcasting the return of primitive, medieval-style justice, with women once again facing death by stoning. Reports from early 2024 reveal that Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada explicitly announced the re introduction of public stoning—alongside flogging—for women accused of adultery. Statements including “We will […]