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mubahood360 · 3 years

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Loyce Mbaine Confirms Murdering Boyfriend Allan Mandela, A Radio Presenter Following Arrest

As Cops were uprooting her their bonking pad, Loyce Mbaine confirmed terminating radio presenter Allan Mandela Mateeka’s life following a deadly fight. Mbaine and Allan In a clip making rounds on social media, Loyce visibly shedding buckets of tears after murdering Mandela admits after being squeezed by police to open up on what really happened; “..we’ve had a fight and i killed him..”, she…

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scripttorture · 5 years

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I find myself more worried about how people will react to my book, which has an anti-torture part, than focusing on the actual writing. I have already been in situations where I was dismissed as misinformed or overly empathetic in favor of torture working to accomplish this or that. Or told my credentials weren’t good enough, even by people who have none. How can I deal with this preoccupation? How can I deal with readers who might argue with or dismiss me? How do I avoid seeming preachy?

It’snormal to worry about how people will react to your story. Especiallywhen you’re tackling a difficult topic.

Toa certain extent I think that worry is a good thing.I think it drives us to research, to double check, to make sure ofwhat we’re writing. In my experience as a writer that leads tobetter stories.

ButI understand that it can also get to a point where it starts to feelcrippling and impedes your ability to actually write.

Tomy mind your first question is pretty distinct to the other two. Thelast two questions seem to be about dealing with readers’ responseswhereas the first question seems more focused on that permanentwriting problem: getting words on the damned page.

Whichcan feel a lot more difficult when you’re tackling something heavyfor the first time.

Findinga way to get writing really depends on how you write.

Ipersonally found that setting myself targets was useful. I also foundsetting time aside to write was useful.

Butnot everyone works in the same way. I don’t think you should try toforce yourself to write in my ‘style’ or to my work patterns ifthey’re not effective or helpful for you.

Thebest way to get through that anxiety is to write.

Evenif it’s bad. Even if you need to change it later. Even if you endup re-writing it a dozen times.

Write.

Ipersonally despiseediting. I feel like it kills my stories and like every re-writtenword is akin to pulling out teeth.

NowI know a lot of writers swear by editing and need multiple re-writesto get a story the way they want it. That’s perfectly OK, it’sjust another approach to writing.

Buteven if you’re like me and editing feels abysmal giveyourself permission to mess up.

That’show you learn.

Giveyourself permission to try out the scenes a couple of time. Giveyourself permission to make a mess of it.

Evenif you end up scraping the first hundred drafts you will have learntand the next time will be better.

Insome ways it’s like baking bread: the more you do it the more yeastcultures in the kitchen thrive and the better the next batch becomes.

Believeme it does get betterand it gets easier.

I’vebeen writing and making up stories since I was a child. I’ve beentrying to write seriously (though not necessarily professionally) forabout twenty years. And I’ve only recently started to feel asthough I’m happy with what I produce more often then not.

Ittakes time. It takes practice. It takes hard work. And that anxietywill never go away completely.

Butit can be used like fuel to drive you forward rather than like aweight on your back slowing you down.

Whenit comes to credentials- I’m honestly unsure who doescount as having credentials in this field.

Icertainly don’t. I have no training. My profession is completelyunrelated to human rights or abuse/injury of any kind. I’ve neverworked with survivors.

Ireally do just read a lot about awful stuff.

Butholistic programs on torture don’t really exist right now.

Kara’swork on slavery is groundbreaking in part for bringing in hisexperience in economics. But he isn’t a psychologist and hiswriting constantly references the idea that slaves are obedientbecause they’retortured rather than because they know perfectly well that constantdisobedience will get them killed.

Karahas probably not read Rejali.

Cobain,whose work as a journalist interviewing both survivors and torturersis incredibly useful, alsoparrots torture apologia and takes what torturers saytorture does at face value.

Thepeople publishing histories of torture and of law don’t seem toconsult with the people working with survivors and vice versa.

Andthe charity workers/activists don’t even seem to talk to eachother.

Thisfield is incredibly divided. I don’t think there areholistic credentials that cover everything.

Butthe thing is-

Wedon’t need to rely on our own credentials towrite fiction when there is awealth of publications by people with diverse experiences andcredentials out there who we can quote.

I’mnot a neuroscientist. So I reference O’Mara. I’m not a socialscientist. So I reference Rejali.

I’mnot a historian and wasn’t in Algeria during the Franco-Algerianwar. But I can still read what Fanon said about it and what Allegsaid about it. I can compare that to the statistics on torture duringthat period Rejali built up and presented.

Andfrom these things I can draw conclusions.

Therewill always be people who will tell you you are wrong.

Therewill always be people who will dismiss expert opinion when youpresent it to them.

Fundamentallyyou do not need toconvince everyone. You do not need to justify the idea that tortureis wrong.

Youdo not need to debate everyone who argues in support of torture. Youcan just give them a reading list.

It’salso important to try and keep things in perspective. I have foundthat there are usually morereaders who will praise your stance then there are readers who willargue with or dismiss it.

Andpet, I’m here as a resource: youcan always send them to me.

Asfor being preachy well personally I found the best antidote to thatwas listening to survivors.

Readingwhat Alleg, Fela, Searle and the combined anonymous survivors inMonroe’s ADarkling Plainhad to say showed me a more powerful ways to express thesesentiments.

There’sanger and wit and jet-dark humour in what survivors say. There’sstubbornness and rare kinds of courage.

There’snothing wrong with capturing that.

Listento Bobi Wine for a moment here.

Thisinterview was within about a week of Wine being tortured. ‘Ofcourse I’m going back to Uganda.’

We’reso used to anti-torture narratives being- taken from a formula thatcharities use. It’s a narrative that’s at a remove. That talksdown. That states ‘this is wrong, this doesn’t work’ but rarelystops to talk about why.

Wecan’t just rely on that formula. It hasgiven us some victories but it is foolish to think we can stick tojust one strategy and keep making gains.

There’snothing preachy about what survivors say for themselves.

Andthere’s nothing wrong with listening to what they say and trying tochannel some of that energy into your writing. Alleg’s demands fordignity. Fela’s grief and rage. Searle’s morbid humour and theway he used it to skewergender stereotypes.

Thereis power and sincerity there that rarely makes it into fiction. Evenas an echo.

Putsurvivors at the centre and let those characters speak the waysurvivors do in real life. Don’t be afraid of sincerity. Don’t beafraid of anger. Don’t be afraid of something seeming too ‘extra’or unrealistic.

Felamarched his murdered mother’s funeral procession past the militarybarracks that was probablyresponsible for the attack that killed her. He left the coffin on thesteps and wrote a song about it.

BobiWine went back to Uganda, is performing again and is still expressingthe views he was tortured for.

Weare all capable of incredible things. Remember that. Channel that.

Andgive yourself permission to take time getting that right. It willbe hard work. But I promise the results will be worth the effort.

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bigeyeug · 4 years

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“Leave Bobi Wine alone”Segirinya warns Male Mabirizi.

Kawempe North Lord councilor Muhammad Segirinya has warned Male Mabirizi to concentrate on other things and leave Bobi Wine alone.

His comments come shortly after Lawyer Male Mabirizi came out and questioned Bobi Wine’s credentials.

In a television interview,Segirinya said that Mabirizi has no moral authority to question Bobi Wine’s education because he is over qualified. Segirinya went…

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africapedia-blog · 6 years

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Uganda: Who Is Bobi Wine And Why Is He Such A Pain In The Neck For Long-time Ruler Museveni?

UGANDAN singer turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known as Bobi Wine, is at the centre of a storm in the East African nation. Ssentamu was arrested and charged with treason in a civilian court shortly after a military court dropped a charge of illegal possession of firearms and released him from custody. Kyagulanyi, who was allegedly tortured, and struggled to walk on crutches, was eventually granted bail on Monday. The 36-year-old uses his politically charged songs to call for change in the country that President Yoweri Museveni has led for more than three decades. The Conversation Africa asked Jimmy Spire Ssentongo to try and make sense of whats happening.

How would you describe the public reaction to the political crisis in Uganda?

The public reaction is mostly a mixture of anger and shock. It’s true that Museveni isn’t known to be soft on his opponents or perceived threats. Nevertheless many Ugandans didn’t expect him to stoop this low. Given Bobi Wine’s growing popularity, most people indeed expected the state to act. After all, it routinely meted out retribution against key opposition figure Dr Kiiza Besigye.

But it was nevertheless shocking that the state would reach the point of laughably parading arms as evidence against Bobi Wine for [alleged] treason.

The sense of shock can also be read in the loud silence of most government officials. Just a handful are offering to be part of the collective responsibility for the international embarrassment. It has been left to the president to offer explanations on social media where he’s been more active than ever before.

The public anger needs no elaboration. It can be seen, it can be heard, it can be sensed in various expressions on social media, on the streets, in places of worship and on radio, TV, buses, taxis and in homes. It’s also clear that the state is aware of the potential for a violent public reaction to the brutality and poorly staged justification for blatant political persecution. In anticipation, there [was] a heavy deployment of police and soldiers.

Since the passing of the Public Order Management Act (2013), demonstrators are treated as criminals. But in the heat of the current anger, this has not stopped people from defiantly using the limited space available.

Much of the anger has been channelled through social media. One simply needs to check the comments on the President’s Facebook posts to get a sense of the bitterness and public fury.

How serious a political challenge does Bobi Wine pose to Museveni?

This is best answered by understanding what Bobi Wine represents.

There’s a tendency to focus simplistically on Bobi Wine in terms of his moral, academic, and other experiential credentials. But this fails to place him contextually within Uganda’s political landscape.

Museveni greets a soldier at a shooting range: democracy is highly unlikely under the former guerrilla leader, who has been in power for 32 years now. (Photo/YKM/Facebook).

Museveni is still popular among some section of Ugandans, who argue that in spite of his failings, he is still better than most of his seven predecessors. A lurking fear of “going back to the past” still plays in his favour. He has some achievements to show too.

But this narrative holds no sway with the younger generation, many of whom were born after 1986, the year Museveni became president.

Before entering formal politics, Bobi Wine enjoyed significant clout in the music industry. He entered the political arena through a defiant ghetto card with a relatively consistent background of politically critical music. Last year he stood for parliament, arriving on the political scene with a bang that surprised many. His catch phrase was:

Since parliament has failed to come to the ghetto, then we shall bring the ghetto to parliament.

The state’s panicky mistake was to react to his popular entry by openly persecuting him initially through banning his music shows. Museveni showed early on that he’d noticed the young man had a following, by writing direct responses to him in the newspapers.

Then there was the ruckus in parliament over a vote to remove the [constitutional] age restriction on the presidency. Bobi Wine was among those who fought hard to stop it.

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Bobi Wine makes his feelings known during an altercation in Parliament.

What seemed to draw Museveni’s attention even more was that candidates supported by Bobi Wine started to beat those backed by Museveni hands down.

Gradually Bobi Wine began to build a more conspicuous political identity around a very catchy slogan people power, our power, unmistakably dressing in red attire plus berets, emulating Julius Malemas militant Economic Freedom Fighters party in South Africa.

It became clear that Bobi Wine was winning the hearts of youths as well as some earlier sceptics.

Given the widespread public desperation in Uganda, all many people want is a person who shows the potential of removing Museveni. All else is secondary.

In this sense Bobi Wine poses a real threat to Museveni, more so in consideration that young Ugandans, many of whom are unemployed, constitute a huge percentage of the active electorate.

Museveni has confronted numerous challenges and won hands down. How do you see this challenge playing out?

It is not clear how this might end. It largely depends on whether the state remains adamant, and which other players join Bobis cause.

The Free Bobi Wine agitation [could develop] into a movement that could easily take on a broader form.

It is also expected that Bobi Wine’s stature would have been greatly boosted by his imprisonment. The state has contributed immensely to his political weight and appeal while at the same time proving itself a political villain and international laughing stock. He will no doubt be reading the public mood.

Nevertheless, I don’t expect that the state is going to relent. Museveni is not known to countenance any threat. We are yet to see more of this roughness as we get closer to the 2021 elections, where there is strong reason to believe that Bobi Wine might stand.

What are the prospects for a more open democracy in Uganda?

Most institutions that would count in a democratic dispensation parliament, the judiciary and an electoral system, exist in Uganda. But the country continues to show more signs of a hybrid state slanted towards presidentialism. Much of the real power to bring about change rests in the hands of the person who may not want to see it happen.

There is therefore every reason to believe that an open democracy is highly unlikely under Museveni, except certain elements of it that dont threaten his hold on power.

♦Jimmy Spire Ssentongo is an Associate Dean (Research and Publication), School of Postgraduate Studies and Research at Uganda Martyrs University, Uganda Martyrs University

-This article was originally published on The Conversation.

Uganda: Who Is Bobi Wine And Why Is He Such A Pain In The Neck For Long-time Ruler Museveni? was originally published on Africapedia

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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Late Bugwere cultural leader Dr. Wayabire to be accorded official burial

Government has mourned the passing of the Bugwere cultural leader His Royal Highness Dr. John Chrysostom Wayabire, who passed away on Sunday 7th February 2021. The lkumbania passed on at Platinum Hospital in Kampala where he was undergoing treatment for COVID-19. He was enthroned as the Cultural Leader of the Bagwere on 6th July 2013 and he since then took bold steps in uniting and advancing…

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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Barbie Kyagulanyi Flies Back To Attend Hubby Bobi Wine's 39th Birthday Celebrations- Pictorial

Barbie Kyagulanyi Flies Back To Attend Hubby Bobi Wine’s 39th Birthday Celebrations- Pictorial

We can highly confirm that Barbie Itungo, wife of NUP darling and former presidential candidate Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert aka Bobi Wine is back in the country specifically to attend hubby’s birthday celebrations. A fortnight back, Barbie sneaked out of the country to US to meet their kids; Solomon, Shalome, Shadrack and Suubi. With her face buried in the face mask, very few could recognize her…

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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MTN Foundation Lights up More Schools across Uganda

The MTN Uganda Foundation in partnership with Fenix International Uganda are set to light up more schools in an ongoing project dubbed “Light up a village”. With an extra donation of 190 solar kits, 56 schools from 24 districts will have light and power to facilitate proper learning outcomes by increasing reading time, secure learning environment especially in the night as well as supporting…

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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Traffic Snarl Up on Thika Road After Heavy Truck Overturns

Traffic Snarl Up on Thika Road After Heavy Truck Overturns – Kenyans.co.ke Skip to main content File image with a traffic police officer on Friday, February 11 2021at the scene where the truck overturned Twitter Thika Road Super High motorists were on the morning of Friday, February 11 affected by heavy traffic resulting from a large truck that fell on the road. A spot check by Kenyans.co.ke …

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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Uganda Baati Unveils Safbuild, a Customer–Focused Innovation To Reduce Time Spent On Construction

Uganda Baati Limited, the preferred provider of quality building construction materials in Uganda has today, launched SAFBUILD, a new building solution designed to reduce property development delivery time and expenses incurred by contractors and customers. The new product, SAFBUILD, was unveiled by Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, Minister of State for Housing, Uganda, and the Board Chairman Uganda Baati,…

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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ANTI WAAYA! Akaboozi katabudde ssemaka olwa mukyala we okugaba ebisobooza bye ku muto we, obulamu abututte

Abatuuze ku kyalo Kitari cell mu disitulikiti y’e Rubanda bawuninkiridde, olwa ssemaka okutta omukyala we, omulambo nagweziikira. Ssemaka Dismus Muhumuza aludde ng’alumiriza mukyala we Alibina Tusimomwe obwenzi ng’ayagala muganda we Viani Turyahebwa. Olw’obusungu, akutte ejjambiya natematema mukyala we namutta, muganda we gw’alumiriza okwagala mukyala we naye amutemyetemye era atwaliddwa mu…

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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Remanded Nubian Li Pens Down Emotional Letter To NUP Supporters

Bobi Wine’s right hand man and singing partner Nubian Li has called out all NUP ‘Komuledis in the stulago’ to remain strong as he awaits to be set free. Nubi in the dock In a letter dated 2/11/ 2021 which is making rounds on social media, Nubian who is currently remanded at Kitalya Maximum prison reminds everyone who still believes in Bobi Wine to remain hopeful that soon him and other disciples…

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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Remanded Nubian Li Pens Down Emotion Letter To NUP Supporters

Bobi Wine’s right hand man and singing partner Nubian Li has called out all NUP ‘Komuledis in the stulago’ to remain strong as he awaits to be set free. Nubi in the dock In a letter dated 2/11/ 2021 which is making rounds on social media, Nubian who is currently remanded at Kitalya Maximum prison reminds everyone who still believes in Bobi Wine to remain prayerful and hopeful that soon him and…

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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Finance Minister Kasaija Trashes Plot To Tax All Cash Withdraws At Commercial Banks

The Finance minister Matia Kasaija has in a twist of events dismissed claims that his ministry is plotting to tax all categories of cash withdraws at commercial banks in Uganda. Speaking to journalists today, Kasaija denied any knowledge of a tax proposal. “Tax on withdrawal of money, I’m hearing it for the first time. I don’t know where you are picking it. Yesterday we were talking about tax…

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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UPDF Chopper In Nasty Accident, Crash Lands At Lido Beach Entebbe

A Uganda People’s Defence Force – UPDF chopper has on Thursday afternoon crashed at Spenah Beach in Entebbe under unclear circumstances. The chopper, reportedly fell to the ground and broke into pieces a few meters from the Air Force base. Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso, the UPDF spokesperson has confirmed the accident she says happened at about 02:15 pm while the jet ranger was on a training…

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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GOODIES ON DISPLAY! Curvaceous And Waterlogged City Socialite Goes Topless In New Steamy Video, Fans Get Excited On Seeing Her Pointed G-nuts In Short Clip

Renown City socialite Doreen Kabareebe has just taken her slaying game on social media onto the next level. The pencil thin model now turned Instagram slay queen has given her followers a hard time to keep their pants dry as she has posted a seductive video of herself caressing and massaging her sharp pointed boobs. In the said video, Doreen can be seen parading her topless self for the camera…

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mubahood360 · 3 years

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Gravity Omutujju Attacks Ykee Benda Following Resignation As UMA Gaffer, Begs Bobi To Take Over

A few days back singer Ykee Benda resigned as Uganda Musician Association- UMA President, an umbrella for all artists, after serving for less than one year. Ykee Benda resigned as UMA gaffer Ykee claims he dumped the top office because some established artists belittled and disrespected him. His resignation has now become a subject of debate as fellow colleagues have come out all guns blazing…

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