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Uganda elections: Campaign trail with the country’s rudest feminist

 Uganda elections: campaign trail with the country’s rudest feminist Stella is my Mama Africa, because she has always fought for women!” sho...

 Uganda elections: campaign trail with the country’s rudest feminist


Stella is my Mama Africa, because she has always fought for women!” shouts Hanifa Nagujja, a 28-year-old cook at akatale kabalema or “market of the disabled” in the heart of Kampala, Uganda’s capital.

Nagujja is one of about 15 women in gingham aprons who are jumping in the air in elation, clapping, finger-clicking and ululating as Stella Nyanzi weaves her way through bubbling pots of groundnut sauce, beans and matooke. Some of them chant “Nnalongo! Nnalongo!” – the name given to mothers of twins in Buganda culture.

Nyanzi’s twin boys, Wasswa and Kato, 13, and her daughter, Baraka, 15, trail behind their mother holding a roll of Kampala Woman MP campaign posters and a large bucket of paste. The teenagers look tired; their mother’s life has been a whirlwind the past few years, from her naked protests to stints in police cells and prison.

Nyanzi is a feminist anthropologist focused on African sexuality and gender, including work with LGBT+ communities – a controversial area of research in Uganda. She has become better known for her writing and activism.

In February, she was released from Luzira prison, where she had been detained for almost 16 months for writing a poem about Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni’s mother’s vagina. Posted on Facebook like much of her other writings, the poem uses graphic language to criticise Museveni’s near 35-year rule – a subversive tactic known as “radical rudeness.”


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