Patience is a Kampala-based features writer who specialises in human rights and social justice issues.
David Astor Journalism Award winner 2013.
Twitter: @Patienceakumu
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 is a Kampala-based features writer who specialises in human rights and social justice issues.
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.
To grow up in Uganda, and many other parts of Africa where white people are no more than a fascinating minority, is to be almost entirely blind to the reality of the intricacies of race in the big bad voracious world. And so it was that when I watched Taylor…
Patience is a Kampala-based features writer who specialises in human rights and social justice issues.
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 is a Kampala-based features writer who specialises in human rights and social justice issues.