Stella L. M. Ahaabwa

Ex-Lawyer | Education + | Reader | Podcaster @artnaboutug | WOMEN are celebrated here | Sleep is optional | Tea is everything | Recently, Desk Plant Killer

[Stella L. M. Ahaabwa @allsetstella]

Today in #WomensHistoryMonth we honour Florence Lubega; the first female legislator to join the first Ugandan parliament in 1957. After graduating from Oxford University (1946) she returned home to teach at Makerere University before joining politics
#IWD2020 #GenerationEquality

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

An Ebola ‘Conspiracy’?: Why is Uganda Blacklisted While DR Congo Where It Originated Gets a Pass?
It’s very difficult to get agreement on anything in politically polarised Uganda, but there is a rare growing consensus in the country that a "conspiracy" at play against it regarding the latest Ebola outbreak.
As is often the case, the virus originated in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where 452 confirmed cases, 1,000 suspected cases, and 82 deaths have been recorded - before spilling over into Uganda.
Uganda has registered 15 cases and just ONE (1) death, a 59-year-old Congolese man who had come into the country from the DRC.
This is where it gets strange. Despite this disparity, western governments have issued over a dozen strict travel advisories specifically targeting Uganda, far eclipsing those levied against the DRC, and even suspension of visas!!!. This has prompted Ugandan politicians and social media users to rail against them and sections of international media like Al Jazeera for "bundling Uganda with Congo" and treating the two as a single entity.
The situation in Kenya might throw some light on the Uganda case. Protests erupted in Nanyuki, in the mountainous central region of the country, over a proposed US Ebola quarantine facility at Laikipia Air Base. This backdrop lends some credence to a disclosure from an authoritative Nairobi-based journalist who said: "We hear the US initially approached Uganda, which possesses the continent’s finest technical expertise on Ebola. Kampala refused, stating, 'We are too busy managing the spillover from Congo'."
If Kampala did indeed rebuff Washington, it is confounding given the Ugandan government’s long history of subservience to US interests. Yet, it might explain why conspiracy theories are thriving. Kampala likely suspects it is being internationally penalised for refusing to fall in line and serve as an Ebola "leper colony".
What is clear is how anomalous it is for a nation with minor spillover cases to be treated as the primary medical pariah.

[Mamello🧚🏽‍♀️ @MelloFelicia1]

To the makers of sports bras—just sew the pads in please!

[Alan Kasujja @kasujja]

Good.

Let me add the context you have left out.

The death was a Congolese national who’d travelled to Uganda as a health tourist.

Do not lump us with the DRC. It’s misinformation to do so.

The real Ebola problem is in the East of DRC.

Because of reckless narratives, livelihoods are being destroyed in Uganda.

Entire industries are being affected.

[Sundisi Laxmi Hakim @SundiHkm]

The jewel Lake Victoria hid from the world😍

Dolwe Island is nature's ultimate gallery. Here, resilient rock art has defied rain, wind, and time for thousands of years.

#DiscoverDolwe |#ExploreUganda

[Thea @thewatersideboi]

"I never asked you to" is such a nasty thing to say after benefiting from someone's time and love

[Reuters @Reuters]

King's College Hospital in London has opened a rooftop garden for critical care patients. Its first patient, a 29-year-old woman dependent on feeding tubes, said the outdoor space gave her 'a real boost to keep on going

[Basketball Africa League @theBAL]

Kigali understood the assignment 🇷🇼✨ African style, confidence, and elegance all in one frame.

[Thomas @Owishemwe]

You people are actually not taking this Ebola outbreak as serious as you should.

[ESSENCE @Essence]

Brown skin girl, skin just pearl!

Lupita Nyong’o, the woman that you are! The most beautiful woman in the world, indeed!

P.S. It’s us screaming “wine your waist” at our screens!

Video: @vernonfrancois

[Lantana Publishing @lantanapub]

Inspired by the true story of enslaved women who braided maps to guide one another to freedom, Freedom Braids is a picture book of love, liberation and legacy.

Coming to AUS/NZ on 26 May 🇦🇺🇳🇿

https://t.co/ICnoH1Z5Y4

[Mujuni Raymond @qataharraymond]

Interesting how folks can find the DRC border when talking about conflict and minerals and all of a sudden can’t find it when talking about Ebola.

🙌🏽

[Stella L. M. Ahaabwa @allsetstella]

📍 Hector Pieterson Museum

The faces in this museum were once children with futures. Hate stole too many of those futures.

[Stella L. M. Ahaabwa @allsetstella]

#Soweto 🇿🇦| History feels different when you’re standing inside it.
📍 The Apartheid Museum

[Stella L. M. Ahaabwa @allsetstella]

📍 Mandela House

[Marcella Karekye @MKarekye]

Very lousy journalism.

[Ministry of Health- Uganda @MinofHealthUG]

Regarding #Uganda, the Ministry of Health has not been engaged on the establishment of the treatment centres referred to here, and we are therefore not aware of where they may have been set up within the country.

We continue to affirm that Uganda has so far registered only two imported Ebola cases: one fatality and one patient currently responding well to treatment under close medical care. There are no local infections and the country remains safe.
@StateHouseUg @JaneRuth_Aceng @DianaAtwine @USEmbassyUganda
#MOHatWork | #FightEbolaUG26

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Independence from Britain is celebrated somewhere in the world roughly every six days.

[lina | لينه @labushouk]

a little-known fact about Julius Nyerere is that he translated Shakespeare's Julius Caesar & The Merchant of Venice from English into Swahili. art was central to the project of African socialism & Nyerere did not discriminate.

[Stella L. M. Ahaabwa @allsetstella]

#Sandton 🇿🇦 | Spent the afternoon at @Artyli_com marveling at Henrico Greyling’s sculptures — raw, intricate, and impossible to ignore. Inspiring art and a beautiful way to slow down for a moment.

[proxmius Karama. @KaramaSeal]

Indigo dyes of West Africa