✍️ Do you have a story waiting to be told? The legendary Maya Angelou once said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”Is your story ready to come alive? Join our Creative Writing Workshops to be held in Kampala and Tororo in November 2025 and discover the art of storytelling […]
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It is a sunny Saturday afternoon, my favourite time of the week. I sit in my corner of the garden, under a leafy tree, surrounded by a hedge I planted for this very purpose, seclusion. Yet as soon as I sit at my desk to seclude, I open my mail hoping for something of interest
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11th June 2009 By Atuki Turner The article by Jenn Jagire in The New Vision, June 4, raises issues about the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in democracy and good governance, and how Africans in the diaspora can help or hinder this. First of all, it is insulting for Jenn Jagire to state that forcing
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1st July 2010 By Atuki Turner ANOTHER woman has buried a baby doll! Lillian Apio was detained by Police and has now been released on bond while everyone waits with bated breath to see what the Resident State Attorney will charge her with. Following two miscarriages, and under pressure to deliver, Apio pretended she had
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On April 5th this year, Amanya Maclean lost her life as a result of brutal beatings allegedly inflicted by her husband, Innocent Amwiine. Before she died, Amanya gave a clear and heartbreaking declaration: she had been violently assaulted by her husband — not just once, but over the years. This dying testimony alone is sufficient
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4th February 2013 By Carol Kasujja Mifumi, a Tororo-based Non-Governmental Organisation, fighting for women and children’s rights, has proposed that the term ‘bride price’ be changed to ‘bride gift’. Atuki Turner, the Mifumi executive director, said changing the name would make the bride gift optional and not commercial as it is today. “This will help
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7th April 2017 By Atuki Turner Stella Nyanzi has intrigued me just as she has many other people in recent days and I begin by asking myself, who is Stella Nyanzi? Is she a feminist? Is she an activist? Is she an educationalist? Is she a rebel with a cause? I think first and foremost
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6th March 2009 By Atuki Turner On March 8 we will celebrate International Women’s Day. This is the day wool is pulled over women’s eyes and speeches are made about how much we have achieved — but the speeches are sadly distorted because they hide how little we have really changed. We need to reflect
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5 July 2025 Masaba road It is a sunny Saturday afternoon, my favourite time of the week. I sit in my corner of the garden, under a leafy tree, surrounded by a hedge I planted for this very purpose, seclusion. Yet as soon as I sit at my desk to seclude, I open my mail
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By Patrick Luganda 27 December 2001 It is now settled. Hand in gifts to a suitor’s parents. Marry the girl. Mistreat her and she will run away. And there is no refund for your gifts. More than 60% of voters in the referendum on bride price in Tororo district last Saturday opted for a reform
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