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Sep 29, 2024 | 
transcend.org | Beatrice Lamwaka
Beatrice Lamwaka – TRANSCEND Media Service Formless by Raïs Neza Boneza – Review by Beatrice Lamwaka27 Sep 2024 – In Formless, Raïs Neza Boneza’s voice is confident in calling for peace and respect for human rights. Right from the first poem, Boneza does not mince his words in calling for an end to endless bombing and massacres at a time when this seems to go on in the world unabated.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Pierre Haski |Beatrice Lamwaka
FOCUS: Russia-Ukraine War Funeral of a Ukrainian soldiers in Lviv, Western Ukraine. FOCUS: Russia-Ukraine War Funeral of a Ukrainian soldiers in Lviv, Western Ukraine.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Beatrice Lamwaka
Society Musician Lawrence Ogambo demonstrates how men play the fumbo during the ajore dance, a traditional burial rite of the Jopadhola, in Busembatya village, Uganda. Society Musician Lawrence Ogambo demonstrates how men play the fumbo during the ajore dance, a traditional burial rite of the Jopadhola, in Busembatya village, Uganda.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Beatrice Lamwaka
TORORO — Dust and cobwebs have gathered around Lawrence Ogambo’s fumbo, the long hollow drum played during the traditional Ugandan burial rite of the Jopadhola. It’s been more than 50 years since Ogambo, 90, has played it at a funeral. The Jopadhola live predominantly in Tororo, a district of 500,000 people by the 2014 census located 200 kilometers (124 miles) east of Kampala. Most Ugandans know these parts for Tororo Rock, a massive outcrop surrounded by flat, green land.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
globalpressjournal.com | Beatrice Lamwaka |GPJ Uganda
WAKISO, UGANDA — In 2021, John Grace’s father gave him an ultimatum. If he wanted to continue serving LGBTQ+ people, he had to stop identifying as one. “[He] told me not to go back home until I become straight,” Grace says. Grace refused. He was and remains the coordinator of Uganda Minority Shelters Consortium, an umbrella group he founded in 2020 that works with independent shelters to provide safe housing to LGBTQ+ people across Uganda.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Beatrice Lamwaka
Kampala, Uganda — Finding affordable and accessible health care is a problem for the many women who work in Kampala's bustling markets. But so, too, is finding the time. Hellen Alal has spent most of her 75 years selling fresh produce at Nakawa Market, arriving at the bustling hub on the eastern edge of Uganda's capital city alongside thousands of other vendors at 7 each morning and returning home around 10 p.m."I take care of grandchildren," Alal says.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
globalpressjournal.com | Beatrice Lamwaka |GPJ Uganda
KAMPALA, UGANDA — When Brian Namanya traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, for a conference in 2019, he was eager to experience the city. But it was his first time, and he didn’t know where to begin. One of the options was to pay travel agents for a tour, but this would have been costly. “I ended up not doing anything. I just stayed at the hotel,” he says. This got him thinking. What if there was a platform where you could book walking tours with a local who knew the city well?
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
globalpressjournal.com | Beatrice Lamwaka
TORORO, UGANDA – When Florence Abbo’s husband died five years ago, it gave the mother of six an escape. She married when she was 14 years old, and abuse began shortly after the wedding, she says. “Five days after I gave birth to our first child, he gave me a hoe and asked me to go dig the garden,” she says. “When I refused, he beat me up.”When he beat her, Abbo says, he told her he was beating his father’s cows.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Nakisanze Segawa |Beatrice Lamwaka
LGBTQ Plus Members of the Talented Youth Community Fellowship, a Christian LGBTQ group in Uganda LGBTQ Plus Members of the Talented Youth Community Fellowship, a Christian LGBTQ group in Uganda You've reached your limit of free articles. To read the full story, start your free trial today. Get unlimited access. Cancel anytime. Exclusive coverage from the world's top sources, in English for the first time.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Mario Tozzi |Nakisanze Segawa |Beatrice Lamwaka
KAMPALA — Just two days after the Ugandan Parliament passed the Anti-Homosexuality Act in March, Sam received a call. Her landlord asked her to leave the house she had been renting for almost two years in Kyebando-Kanyanya village, about 4 miles from Kampala. When Sam, a lesbian who prefers to be identified by one name for fear of stigmatization, asked why she was being evicted, her landlord asked to meet her the following day in the presence of the local chairman (a village leader).
