Rosebell Kagumire
Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance
Writer. editor @AfriFeminists. Columnist at @newint. “I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy ~Winnie Madikizela Mandela✊🏿🖤
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1 month ago |
newint.org | Rosebell Kagumire
It was a quiet ceremony as Mozambique swore in its new president, Daniel Chapo, in January. There was none of the loud celebration to be expected at such an occasion – in fact, the political opposition boycotted the event and eight people were reportedly killed as they protested against it. More than 56 per cent of Mozambique’s 17 million eligible voters abstained from the election, which took place in October 2024.
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2 months ago |
newint.org | Rosebell Kagumire
For the last decade, high levels of unemployment in several countries have pushed people to search for work abroad. Expanding economies in the Middle East have become a magnet for migrant labour. But people are also going to countries in the region with more troubled economies, like Lebanon. Four years ago, there were an estimated 400,000 migrant workers in the country, many of them domestic workers.
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Oct 29, 2024 |
linkedin.com | Rosebell Kagumire
Thank you Kavita Nandini Ramdas, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE, for this decision and solidarity with the oppressed. I personally served on the advisory council of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP) and resigned after witnessing what I knew to be a continuation of colonial-eurocentric approaches to collaborations, which weren't really collaborations in essence with people and organisations from the global south.
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Oct 23, 2024 |
newint.org | Rosebell Kagumire
Youth-led movements have exploded onto the streets of several African countries this year. Young people are angry about skyrocketing living costs and unemployment, all while the ruling elite live in tone-deaf opulence. In early September a small group of young women deployed one of the oldest forms of protest in Uganda – a nude one.
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Sep 29, 2024 |
newint.org | Rosebell Kagumire
‘You do not say sorry with your mouth. Our historical consciousness of African moral law demands that we ask the Dutch, the French, the British, the Portuguese, the Germans, and all our other enslavers and colonizers – “Nixolisa Ngani?” With what are you apologizing?’This challenge from author Panashe Chigumadzi opened her 5 February 2023 ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture at the International Theatre Amsterdam.
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