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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 […]

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

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

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

The thing that has most shocked the world about Rebecca Cheptegei’s murder is the impunity of the killer. To take a celebrated figure like Cheptegei, just returned from her first Olympics in Paris, still in a celebratory mood, to douse her in petrol and set her alight, feels like a slap in the face. However,

Mary, thirteen-years-old, has been living with her two brothers, aged eleven and nine, in a two-roomed incomplete structure in Mbale where their parents abandoned them 7 years ago when they left for Kenya. The kids have been eking out a living from casual labour, washing clothes and digging for people–schooling has been put off for

We received a case referred from our Mbale cluster office of a child of 14 years, Janet, who at the time was living with her grandmother when she was tortured by the Uncle. He waited for her by the roadside and hit her on the back with an iron bar for attending a night party.

17 August 2023 I got out of bed this morning and my right foot made contact with something that was firm but not stone hard. It yielded to my weight and I jumped up and ran across the room on tip toes not wanting my foot to land on it even as a grateful thought

How did MIFUMI’s bride price campaign begin? People usually want to know how something started, how a story began. We did not set out to fight bride price. The struggle against bride price began with a chance remark by my mother, when she looked at me with that keen look in her eyes and said,

Do you have a passion for writing? The great American writer Maya Angelou once said, ‘There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.’ Is there a story you are dying to tell? Would you like to learn the art and craft of storytelling? Would you like to share the writing experience