Representations of Uganda
Scott Robinson is casting a critical eye on media portrayals of Uganda and placing news from that country in a global context.
| Dec 01 2010 | Food Security: Where does it start? |
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 Dr. Opiyo Oloya recently posted an editorial on New Vision regarding food security in Uganda. | |
| Nov 22 2010 | What does Uganda's upcoming election symbolize? |
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The above article illustrate's the catholic churches non-involvement in the upcoming presidential election in Uganda. I'd like to know what you think of the article, in general. Is it possible for the election to change the lives of those who live in Uganda and what does the catholic churches non-involvement mean for the presidential canidates. | |
| Nov 13 2010 | President Obama Warns Against Export Reliance... |
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Al-Jazeera posted an interesting article that pertained to the developing world. President Obama strongly encouraged both developed and developing nations to reconsider their notions of having a export based economy. Indirectly this relates directly to Uganda in the sense that Uganda has been transformed by this western way of thinking through IMF and World Bank loans that have completely restructured their economies. Personally, I believe that this illustrates the power of international organizations who have more power than political figures. President Obama's remark were insightful, but will their really be a change? And if so, where is that change going to come from? | |
| Nov 08 2010 | Campaigning for Uganda Presidential Election |
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| President Yoweri Museveni will be facing tough competition in the February elections as his main component Kizza Besigye, leader of Uganda's main opposition party Forum for Democratic Change, has gained popularity in the country. | |
| Nov 05 2010 | Civil Unrest in Northern Uganda |
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| After the showing of the Invisible Children Documentary at Saint Lawrence University I was asked many questions about the situation and I thought I would provide some further information relating to the blog I posted a month or so ago titled The Uganda ‘Genocide.’ Tens of thousands of children are forced to into running from rebel forces every night in Northern Uganda. It is by choice that these children from the ages of 8 to 14 walk miles into the city of Gulu looking to take refuge in any open space available. These children have the choice to stay home, but they know that there is a high probability that the rebel forces will abduct and force them into becoming child soldiers. | |
| Nov 03 2010 | Cartoon of The Week: The Independent |
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I wanted to post this weeks comic that appeared in The Independent . It's simple, and it says alot. I would like to hear how you think this comic represents the feelings of Ugandans, especially being that this comic is coming from a media source within the country. What are the broader implications of this comic and how do Ugandans view it? | |
| Oct 31 2010 | Uganda: What Makes a Leader Corrupt? |
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 Ghanian-born American Prof. George Ayitteh came out with a publication in the Foreign Policy Magazine earlier this year that targeted forty of the “worst of the worst” dictators in the world. Number nineteen of forty on the list was Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni. I was rather surprised to see this news, even with current political and social issues that have gained attention in current events. The publication was recently written about on October 27, 2010. This illustrates the particular role that the media was trying to portray for the upcoming presidential election on November 11th. Museveni has been in power since 1986, giving him twenty-four years of rule, which one of the reasons that he was determined to be one of the worst leaders in the world in June. | |
| Oct 26 2010 | Uganda's Debt Is Increasing Exponentially |
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Uganda’s debt is on the rise from 2008 by 126%. Uganda’s borrowing in 2008 was approximately 9 million dollars, rising to 110 million dollars in the first quarter of 2009/2010, according to the National Economy Committee of Parliament in an article on | Oct 25 2010 | Uganda's Rolling Stone Article |
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Recently, I have been searching all over the web to find a pdf of the rolling stones article titled "Hang Them." And finally, I have found this article and also a letter from the Media Council in Uganda that asked Rolling Stone to immediately stop the production of their newspaper. Attached are the documents. I would like to hear your response to the documents at hand and why they are widely known about, but nearly impossible to find? | |
| Oct 24 2010 | Why is Uganda making international news? |
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Relating to my last post, Death For Gay Sex In Uganda , homosexua lity has been targeted as a controversial topic in conservative African nation-states. Uganda rarely is noticed by news media in general. However, since the ‘Rolling Stone’ article printed a list of 100 gay persons with the title of ‘Hang Them’ there has been a lot of international attention brought to Uganda from all media outlets. In the United States most of the attention from this story directly relates to U.S politics, correlating the Anti-Homosexuality Bill to "The Family" which is an organization ran by right wing conservative Evangelical Christians. People who have helped aid Uganda in formatting the bill include “Scott Lively, a California conservative preacher who has written a book, The Pink Swastika, about what he calls the links between Nazism and a gay agenda for world domination, which, by itself, would have raised the anti-colonial sensitivities of Ugandan society (Time Magazine).” Also, people from “ The Family” in Washington include political figures like “Congressmen Bart Stupak and Joe Pitts, (notorious for working together to strip reproductive rights out of U.S. health care reform); Nevada Senator John Ensign, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, and former Representative Chip Pickering of Mississippi, (all three guilty of adultery and hypocrisy - all three made their political careers by publicly professing their religious faith and their so-called "family values"); and, Senators Brownback and Inhofe (C Street Politics).” Ironically, elections are coming up and this debate is causing many people to take a step back and look at the political agenda of conservatives. The Ugandan Homosexuality Bill directly is being related to the extent to which U.S involvement has helped to create this controversy. This story has made great publicity for Democrats looking to criticize their candidates. | |
