Patience Akumu

Patience Akumu

Patience is a Kampala-based features writer who specialises in human rights and social justice issues.

David Astor Journalism Award winner 2013.

Twitter: @Patienceakumu

Ugandans should wake up, smell the coffee and get rid of Museveni

Elections, the vehicle that citizens are supposed to use to choose their leaders and effect the change they want, mean very little when the person you are trying to oust has spent decades entrenching himself as deeply as possible into power. This is a fact Uganda’s leading opposition leader, Dr….

Patience Akumu

Patience is a Kampala-based features writer who specialises in human rights and social justice issues.

Uganda: Wakaliga slum bursts into a film set creating Wakaliwood

In the evenings, when the children are returning from school and the men and women are retiring from a hard day’s work, Wakaliga – a slum in Uganda’s capital, Kampala – bursts into a merry film set. There are no managers or PR teams as the characters of different movies,…

Patience is a Kampala-based features writer who specialises in human rights and social justice issues.

Bride Price: the changing face of culture in Africa

Marriage in Africa is an intricate affair. Ceremonies are often a medley of sophisticated cultures imported from the west, African customs too precious to let go of and the inescapable vanity of capitalism. For centuries, the only constant in these ceremonies has been the exchange of bride price. From South…

Patience Akumu

Patience is a Kampala-based features writer who specialises in human rights and social justice issues.