Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire, Author at This is Africa

Stella Nyanzi: Social Justice and Social Media Icon

Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:17:57 +0000

“The Facebook post is important because it is instant.” Stella Nyanzi and the making of a social media icon

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On Stella Nyanzi: Where can public intellectuals do their work in Museveni’s Uganda?

Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:47:38 +0000

Academic, creative writer and human rights activist Stella Nyanzi has been charged with cyber harassment of President Yoweri Museveni this afternoon in Kampala. This followed two months of her intensive criticism of Janet Museveni, the country’s Minister Education and wife to the President, over the government’s reneging on an electoral promise to supply free sanitary pads to school going menstruating girls.

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What happened to Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Makerere University?

Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:00:37 +0000

In a new memoir, Ngugi wa Thiong’o revisits his time at Makerere and leaves Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire with a nostalgia for a university that once was.

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Something for everyone in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers

Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:32:30 +0000

Several readers, reviewers, writers and critics have recently responded to the release of Cameroonian novelist Imbolo Mbue’s debut novel, Behold the Dreamers. Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire weighs in on the debate.

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Uganda’s leader, Yoweri Museveni, treats pan-Africanism as a ‘pick and play’ game

Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:47:24 +0000

African leaders are the biggest abusers of the concept of pan-Africanism. For them it is a mere rhetorical device that has nothing at all do with practice. Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire traces Yoweri Museveni’s history of collaborating with the West and how he nevertheless still manages to style himself as a pan-Africanist anti-imperialist.

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