
Uganda


The average person in Uganda
Ugandans are confronted by a cultural and political paradigm which pushes a preference for Western lives and lifestyles from multiple angles.

Perpetrator or Victim?
A decade after the ICC opened its investigation in northern Uganda, it lays its hands on a suspect in that conflict: a former child soldier.

The Invisible Children Highlight Reel
Nine conclusions we can draw from the hype machine that was the viral advocacy campaign, Kony 2012. One of them was that ordinary Ugandans saw right through it.

Kampala Gets an Art Biennale
The need to move the art discussion away from Darwinian interests in gorillas to the concern for new audiences for contemporary art in Africa.

What took the world so long to bring back our girls?
Western media tends to render female children invisible not just by a lack of coverage but also in the language we talk about them.

News from Nigeria
The writer, who lives in the U.S., travels with her teenage son back to Nigeria just as the country proposes a new law to criminalize same sex love.

Ghanaian preachers say the darndest things
The world, via American, is getting to know about how in Ghana the lines between religion and politics, and fact and fiction are often blurred.


A Visitor’s Guide to India
The key question: Are you black? Worry. It is almost always your fault.

The New Yorker and the Mercenaries
An open letter to the New Yorker over its approving coverage of mercenary-activity-for-humanitarian-intervention, despite its record of failure in Central Africa.

From Kansas to Kampala
The plague of evangelical Christianity and its role in fueling homophobia in African countries like Uganda.

Israel’s Uganda Plan
Fantasizing about transferring refugees to third countries, has long been a project of the Israeli state and its policy makers.

We need to talk about Jeremy Clarkson
"Top Gear" presents Africa as background to white, English gentlemanly machismo.

Edward Echwalu’s Favorite Photographs
The Ugandan photographer: "It gets even more complicated being a photojournalist in Africa feeding foreign channels with African events."

#Kony2005
The writer revisits his notes from 2005 when he visited Acholiland, the site of a conflict between the LRA and Uganda's military.